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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 30 (Bernama) -- The United States will give special consideration to Malaysia’s semiconductor sector in tariff negotiations under Section 232 of the US Trade Expansion Act of 1962, said Deputy Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Liew Chin Tong.
From Nor Baizura Basri
GYEONGJU (South Korea), Oct 30 (Bernama) -- The growth in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region has been revised upward to 3.1 per cent this year, slightly higher than the earlier forecast of three per cent, supported by resilient trade activity and robust demand for high-tech goods.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s leading index (LI) annual growth rate recorded a marginal 0.5 per cent decline in August 2025, at 113.7 points compared with 114.3 points a year ago, according to the Statistics Department Malaysia (DoSM).
By Engku Shariful Azni Engku Ab Latif
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 (Bernama) -- The ringgit continued to strengthen against the US dollar on Friday, ahead of a US inflation report later tonight, an analyst said.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- The international reserves of Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) amounted to US$123.4 billion as at Oct 15, 2025, compared to US$123.6 billion as at Sept 30, 2025.
LABUAN, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- A time-bound exemption to Malaysia’s cabotage policy could help ease Sabah’s long-standing shipping imbalance and high logistics costs, drawing lessons from similar policy adjustments in the United Kingdom (UK) and Indonesia.
By Danni Haizal Danial Donald
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- The upgraded ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA) will further accelerate Southeast Asia’s emergence as a self-reliant and unified growth engine able to stave off headwinds from economic superpower rivalry, an economist said.
By Zufazlin Baharuddin
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 (Bernama) -- ASEAN and the United States (US) have made significant progress in their bilateral relations, marked by the confirmed attendance of US President Donald Trump at the upcoming 47th ASEAN Summit, where both sides are expected to strengthen economic cooperation through the signing of the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART).
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) expects palm oil prices to remain steady above RM4,400 per tonne towards end of 2025, amid weak crude oil prices and high vegetable oil inventories in major consuming markets such as China and India.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s economy is projected to grow by 5.2 per cent in the third quarter of 2025 (3Q 2025), based on advance gross domestic product (GDP) estimates by the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 17 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s trade continued to show resilience in September 2025, growing by 9.8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM257.51 billion, reversing the previous month’s contraction amid global trade uncertainties.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- The government will continue to introduce progressive reforms in investment and trade policies to strengthen Malaysia’s global competitiveness, said the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) today.
