KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s inflation rose modestly to 1.4 per cent in February 2026, with the consumer price index (CPI) climbing to 136.0 from 134.1 a year earlier, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Crude palm oil (CPO) prices are expected to remain above RM4,450 in the near term, supported by elevated energy prices and a favourable palm oil-gasoil (POGO) spread, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC).
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s stronger ringgit is helping to ease the impact of rising global import prices, although the country’s import cover has declined, compared with pre-COVID 19 pandemic levels, said the World Bank's lead economist for Malaysia, Dr Apurva Sanghi.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Vercel, the agentic infrastructure company, has appointed Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of industry-defining open source tools including Terraform and Vagrant, to its board of directors.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s trade grew 9.5 per cent to RM245.2 billion in February 2026 from RM223.9 billion a year earlier, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) said.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Menlo Security, the leader in human and agentic Browser Security, has unveiled the first Browser Security Platform purpose-built to secure the agentic enterprise, where autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents will outnumber human employees and the browser has become the operating system for both.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- RegASK, a regulatory operating system for global life sciences and consumer products companies, has announced that two of its leaders have been recognised in Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2026 Pros to Know awards.
FRANKFURT, March 19 (Bernama-dpa) -- The European Central Bank (ECB) is set to announce its latest decision on interest rates on Wednesday against the backdrop of surging oil prices due to the conflict in West Asia, reported German Press Agency (dpa).
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Refeyn, a pioneering mass photometry technology developer, has launched the MyMass mass photometer (MyMassMP), a compact instrument designed to simplify sample quality assessment for structural biology.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Global Water Intelligence (GWI) DesalData, a global desalination and water reuse market intelligence platform, projected that the Middle East's desalination project pipeline will remain largely intact despite the ongoing regional conflict involving Iran.
By Fatin Umairah Abdul Hamid
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- The aviation sector has long been a male-dominated industry but women are boldly breaking through those barriers, making sacrifices to pursue their dreams, proving that passion and determination know no gender.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia opened lower on Thursday, with the benchmark index tracking overnight weakness on Wall Street.
