By Muhammad Fawwaz Thaqif Nor Afandi
KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 (Bernama) -- The rubber market is expected to trade sideways with a slight upward bias amid as the market keeps a close watch on uncertainties surrounding the ongoing West Asia conflict, said industry expert Denis Low.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 20 (Bernama) — Asia-Pacific economies now face rising risks of physical shortages, not only of energy, following the latest Iranian attack on Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG facilities, including oil and gas but also of fertilisers and, by extension, potentially food later in the year.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 19 (Bernama) -- Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has announced that two of its Indonesian subsidiaries have secured a major order to supply 66 elevators, 30 escalators, 404 air-conditioning units, and 38 hand dryers for Two Sudirman Jakarta.
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.
SINGAPORE, March 18 (Bernama) -- Maybank Research Pte Ltd (MRPL) has revised Singapore's gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to 3.4 per cent in 2026, down from its earlier projection of 3.6 per cent, amid ongoing West Asia conflicts.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Hextar Capital Bhd’s subsidiary, Legacy Core Sdn Bhd, has bagged a sub-contract for the Camp Kabota Project in Tawau, Sabah, with a RM75.9 million contract value.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd has publicly reprimanded and fined KAF Investment Bank Bhd (KAF IB) RM300,000 for breaching the Bursa Malaysia Securities ACE Market listing requirements (ACE LR).
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- The Kuala Lumpur rubber market extended its mixed performance for the third consecutive trading day on Tuesday, tracking regional rubber futures, a trader said.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Helical Fusion Co Ltd, a Japanese fusion energy company, has announced the construction site for Phase 1 of Helix HARUKA, its Integrated Demonstration Device.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- H2O.ai, a pioneer in sovereign artificial intelligence (AI), announced its openly available H2OVL Mississippi visual-language multimodal models have reached a significant milestone, surpassing one million monthly downloads.
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s manufacturing sector stabilised in the second half of 2025 (2H 2025) following earlier weakness, with gradual improvement expected in the first half of 2026 (1H 2026), according to the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturing (FMM).
KUALA LUMPUR, March 17 (Bernama) -- Intel’s investment in Malaysia is set to expand, with its advanced packaging complex and assembly manufacturing expected to be operational later this year, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
