Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Simon Ho, an analyst at Citigroup Global Markets Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Bernard Lo about the outlook for Asian banks. Ho also discusses risks facing banks in Taiwan and Malaysia. (This is an excerpt. Source: Bloomberg) ...
Investors awaited a special European Union summit on the economy on Thursday as the bloc grapples with a debt crisis in Greece and budget concerns in other ...
A meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers in the Canadian Arctic on the weekend sought to calm markets about the risk of a debt default in the ...
“This is Malaysia and I've learned to accept this, that people are eager to draw on the negative out of everything. But they should see what we have done ...
... benefits from the group revamp, potential rise in investment banking income, and new growth avenue from the foreign exchange and derivative businesses. ...
The Edge Malaysia - Joseph Chin - 29 minutes ago
The Nasdaq Composite Index declined 15.07 points, or 0.70 percent, at 2126.05. At Bursa Malaysia, stocks to watch are WCT Bhd, EON Capital Bhd (EONCap), ...
New Straits Times - Ajitpal Singh - 31 minutes ago
The Lawn Tennis Association of Malaysia (LTAM) is in two minds on whether to award a wild card to Jawairiah Noordin after her disastrous show in the recent ...
The inconsistent Hafiz Hashim, who withdrew from the tournament, will be Malaysia second singles in the Thomas Cup and the back-up shuttlers are supposed to ...
... against Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, Zulkifli also chided DAP for changing its Malaysian Malaysia agenda to the Middle Malaysia concept. ...
She said this in response to news reports quoting Malaysia Indian Youth Development Foundation chairman SA Vigneswaran as saying in November last year that ...
New Straits Times - K.M. Boopathy - 45 minutes ago
... as the player who lost the decisive third singles to Ashton Chen which sealed Singapore's 3-1 win, their first over Malaysia in the men's team event. ...
Rival Malaysia however ships out mostly higher-value refined products. The government plans to limit exports of crude palm oil to not more than 50 per cent ...
Does MACC have a code of conduct and business ethics in place that all officers must abide to? Complying with these requirements should be part of their ...
... in an effort to optimise its lending structure, in one of the first signs of how the government's lending clampdown is rippling through the economy. ...
The sworn brothers suddenly become sworn enemies and Shek's hatred fuels intense rivalry against Ha in business dealings. Even after 40 years they continue ...
Greece's finance minister said Monday the government is preparing to boost some taxes to shore up its finances. But civil servants opposed to cutbacks have ...
Goel, a resident of Los Altos, California, was a director of strategic investments at Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel Corp., until he left the ...
Data from the Statistics Department, which would be releasing the industrial production index (IPI) on Wednesday, showed Malaysia's exports rose 18.7% ...
“NBAD is strong in the SME business in UAE and Malaysia as a developing nation with more than 90% of total businesses comprising SMEs is a good fit for the ...
By Adib Zalkapli KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's second sodomy trial has become an even playing field to influence public opinion, ...
In a filing to Bursa Malaysia yesterday, HLB said it was unable to consider Rin's request, made through his two companies – Kualapura (M) Sdn Bhd and ...
“The arbitral tribunal found that PAC was lawfully entitled to terminate the said JV contract as the JV company did not carry out any business activities ...
Mycron was now targeting to boost its presence in the local market as the demand for high quality steel was growing in Malaysia, where manufacturers were ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia has decided to delist the securities of Prime Utilities Bhd (PUB). The stock exchange regulator said the financial condition of ...
In a filing with Bursa Malaysia, WCT said the contract was awarded by MAF Investments Bahrain BSC (C) and the date of full completion and handover of the ...
In a filing with Bursa Malaysia yesterday, the group said it recorded an 8.3% increase in net profit year-on-year to RM268.5mil, or earnings per share of ...
As Malaysia aggressively expands its oil palm plantations, there is a huge dependency, about 50% to 90%, on foreign labour in the upstream side which is ...
Last week Time dotCom launched its fixed broadband services to the Mont Kiara area and in a month's time Telekom Malaysia Bhd will be offering its high ...
Shares in banks also fell sharply on fears about a possible fallout from the debt problems at the country's ninth-largest business group, sending the ...
In a reply to Bursa Malaysia's query yesterday, the company said the equity valuation was counted after the deduction of the total debt of RM1.3bil, ...
IN THE continuing debate on social and moral stability in modern Malaysia, the family unit is consistently a prominent focus. Despite the wealth of other ...
But Tengku Razaleigh understands PAS and he is accepted by DAP and by those in East Malaysia,” said Wan Rahim. For Razaleigh, the premiership has been akin ...
By winning the national title, she has proved to us that she is good enough to represent Malaysia in the Uber Cup Finals.” Jing Yi's game took a nosedive in ...
... training centre almost two years ago and they do not train as regularly as they had done so under the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) programme. ...
And Malaysia's singles chief coach Rashid Sidek sees Taufik as a dangerous No. 1 ranked singles player in the Indonesian team even though he had been out of ...
By S. RAMAGURU KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional plan to play a hit-and-run strategy in the Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) final against Sapura and they want ...
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the ...
... Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak was committed towards developing green energy as indicated by Malaysia at last year's Copenhagen summit on climate change. ...
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has allowed a Belgian company Fitraco NV to enter the site of the “Eye on Malaysia” in Malacca and relocate the ferris ...
In an affidavit in support of his application, Anwar said Karpal applied last Thursday to cite Utusan Malaysia for contempt of court over two articles which ...
Najib said speed in making decisions and executing policies had a high impact on the country's competitiveness and productivity, saying Malaysia would be ...
DCP Mohd Mokhtar said the foreigners had come into Malaysia via valid entry points and some even had valid passport stamps on their travel documents. ...
Najib cautioned that domestic investment has been falling over the years and this needed to be reversed. He also said government-linked companies (GLCs) ...
The Malaysian Insider - Clara Chooi - 2 hours ago
His strategy was to impress voters with his achievements and the work that he and the BN had been doing to improve the state's economy. In the past week, ...
The S&P financial index dropped 2.2 percent as the KBW bank index dipped 1.5 percent. Concerns about the fiscal stability of Greece, Portugal and Spain have ...
Producer Mike Karz recalled: “We were literally in the terminals, so there were planes of people getting off from Malaysia and all sorts of other countries, ...
Kent has two sisters living abroad who usually do not return to Malaysia for the dinner. Moreover, he added that since his father passed away a few years ...
“Boosting biodiversity can boost the global economy,” the United Nations Environment Programme said in a headline over a statement launching the theme. ...
She said flashmobs were still new to Malaysia but had been popular overseas for some time. Raising awareness: Two of the participants were frozen in the act ...
Investment bankers are among the least reflective of financial birds. They deal with the problem at hand without asking too many questions about how it got ...
The devastated middle class—the average consumer—can't recover without a globally competitive economy. But as long as the dollar is kept artificially strong ...
Despite the tough talk, the North has been pushing to revive business projects with the South since it was hit by tougher sanctions for its missile launches ...
But Internet ad growth stalled during the recession, prompting many publishers to rethink their business models. Murdoch says he plans to start erecting pay ...
'Without this investment in our authors, the diversity of books available to consumers will contract, as will the diversity of retailers, and our literary ...
RESIN producers Industrial Resins Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Malayan Electro-Chemical Industry Co Sdn Bhd, which supply to the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) industry, ...
Business Times - Malaysia - Rupa Damodaran - 7 hours ago
CIMB Investment Bank chief economist Lee Heng Guie said that exports were recovering, buoyed by a rebound in global demand and the continued expansion of ...
... to fund Kumho firms, which includes Kumho Industrial and Asiana Airlines, as they feared any business failure could dent Korea's economic recovery. ...
Bank of Japan deputy governor Hirohide Yamaguchi said the economy could linger in the doldrums until around the summer before getting back on a course to ...
NEW DELHI:India's economy should grow 7.2 per cent in the fiscal year ending in March, an official forecast said yesterday, as the economy's recovery from ...
KUWAIT CITY:Kuwait's US$104 billion (US$1 = RM3.44) development plan which parliament passed last week could boost the Gulf state's non-oil economy if ...
2 call centre and outsourcing market after India, as estimated by analysts last year, said Gillian Virata, executive director for the Business Processing ...
John Thain, former head of Wall Street investment bank Merrill Lynch, took the reins Monday of CIT Group, a major business lender that recently emerged from ...
... cutting waste in public spending to combat the huge budget crisis, which has shaken investor confidence in Greece, the finance minister said on Sunday. ...
Spanish secretary of state for the economy Jose Manuel Campa was on a visit to London on Monday to meet European institutional investors to brief them on ...
The economy "has clearly turned," said chief government economic advisor Kaushik Basu while finance Secretary Ashok Chawla said growth this year could be ...
The affair triggered a high profile crackdown on tax evasion in Germany, prompting investigations into business executives, sports stars and entertainers, ...
The destitute North is under pressure to return to the nuclear talks, where it can win aid to prop up its broken economy, due to UN sanctions imposed after ...
Tourism is a major foreign exchange earner for Malaysia, which has seen its export-dependent economy hit hard by the global recession, contracting by a ...
The finance chief questioned whether Greece was capable of taking the dramatic steps needed to improve its public deficit of 12.7 percent and debts ...
“This will not be a one-time business, but a continuous one,” he says, explaining that the abundance of wood will keep the fire burning continuously. ...
Jakarta Composite Index closed 1.72% lower at 2475.57 and Japan's Nikkei 225 fell 1.05% to 9951.82. FBM KLCI sank as much as 1.07%, or 13.31 points, ...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has a democracy that exists in name but grievously compromised in substance, reality and fact, said Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, ...
"Certain quarters had made confusing statements without looking at the issue as a whole," the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) political science lecturer ...
This time investors will watch to see if leaders can unite behind the cause of Haiti, soften their political rhetoric and set the stage for better trade as ...
... mayors or presidents and councillors, non-interference in the workings of the councils, municipal finance and setting of a clear line of accountability. ...
The accident happened when they were on their way home in Melaka after a business-cum-holiday trip to Ipoh, Perak. Several of the family's relatives, ...
KOTA KINABALU, Feb 8 (Bernama) -- A seaweed farming company manager and a supervisor were missing during a robbery in Pulau Sebangkat, off Semporna, ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's elite archers Cheng Chu Sian and Arif Farhan Ibrahim Putra advanced to the quarterfinals in the men's Recurve ...
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 8 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is keen to collaborate with neighbouring countries Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore in developing its defence ...
Once she became Mrs. Reid, it's not my business anymore. I stepped away from the circus a long time ago. Whatever is to do with the kids will be my business ...
