Eugene Mahalingam

Bursa Malaysia closed higher yesterday, outperforming some regional peers as renewed weakness in global technology stocks and escalating tensions in West Asia prompted investors to rotate into more defensive and domestically oriented markets.

PETALING JAYA: The Securities Commission (SC) has charged the former chief financial officer (CFO) of condom maker Karex Bhd , Goh Chok Siang, with

TOKYO: Japan's small firms, which employ the bulk of the nation's company employees, may have trouble sustaining wage growth as the Middle East

PETALING JAYA: Stratus Global Holdings Bhd, a semiconductor automated material handling system solutions provider, has signed an underwriting

BANGKOK: Thailand has become the country with the world's second-fastest growth in workplace adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), behind only South Korea, Microsoft says.

KUALA LUMPUR: Property developer Titijaya Land Bhd 's wholly owned subsidiary, NPO Builders Sdn Bhd has entered into a consortium agreement with

PETALING JAYA: MM Computer Systems Bhd (MMCS) made its debut on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia yesterday, opening at 22 sen – in line with its initial public offering (IPO) price of 22 sen per share.

Coastal Contracts Bhd has secured a contract with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) for the procurement, transportation, installation, interconnection, commissioning, testing, startup and operations and maintenance of the second Perdiz Plant at the Ixachi Field, Mexico, worth RM834.7mil.

Senior economist and former finance minister Chatib Basri has pushed back against growing concerns about the country's economic outlook, arguing that the "domestic situation is not as bad as people imagine", despite mounting fiscal issues and external pressures.

PETALING JAYA: HSS Holdings Bhd's issuance of 25 million new initial public offering (IPO) shares to the Malaysian public in conjunction with its listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia was oversubscribed by 10.56 times.