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Petronas Chemical Appoints Mazuin Ismail As MD Effective Jan 2024
Petronas Chemical Group has confirmed on the appointment of a new Managing Director effective January 1 2024, the group will be replacing its current MD Mohd Yusri with Mazuin Ismail.
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Western Digital Taps TNB To Achieve Its Ambitious Green Energy Targets
Western Digital is collaborating with TNB Renewables to drive renewable energy (RE) implementation in its operations in Malaysia with the signing of the Corporate Green Power Agreement (CGPA), a significant step for Western Digital in attaining its sustainability targets and is the company’s first long-term green energy partnership in Malaysia.
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Astro Still Deep In The Woods; Cut 20% Staff, Bleeding Subscribers – Kenanga
Astro Malaysia Holdings, which reports a RM47 million in loss in Q3, are still deep in the woods with multiple headwinds and indicators that led Kenanga Research to downgrade its call to UNDERPERFORM from MARKET PERFORM.
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Navigating Businesses Back to Normalcy: How SMEs Can Learn from Financial System Resilience
In today’s rapidly changing and increasingly complex business landscape, the once-rare ‘black swan’ events – a term popularised by renowned Lebanese-American mathematical statistician and author Nassim Taleb as a metaphor for high-impact events that are difficult to predict under normal circumstances – have become an ominous regularity. These high-impact, unpredictable disruptions, akin to the financial crash of 2008 or the more recent tremors arising from climate change, have reframed how the playbook for business continuity is being written.
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Malaysia’s Supply And Use Registers RM4.6 Trillion In 2021, Up 13.2%, Says DOSM
The Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) released Malaysia’s Input-Output (I-O) Tables for 2021 today which highlighted Malaysian supply and use registered RM4.6 trillion in 2021, up from RM4.1 trillion in 2020, with a growth rate of 13.2 per cent. The growth in 2021 signifies a gradual recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic as the Malaysian economy reopened.
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Minister: Festive Season Air Tickets Highest At RM599 Three Days Before Christmas till 2024
The government has agreed to implement subsidy assistance for the purchase of economy class flight tickets that exceed RM599 for one-way trip from the Peninsular to Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan for three days before Christmas.
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China To Run 3% Budget Gap On GDP In 2024, Issue Special Debt
Chinese leaders agreed at an annual meeting on the economy this week to run a budget deficit of 3 per cent of gross domestic product in 2024, three sources with knowledge of the matter said, while other fiscal support may be covered by off-budget debt.
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Petra Energy Offloads Vessel For RM18 Million
Petra Energy has disposed its non performing asset namely the vessel Petra Lyra with the signing of an MOA with Great Sky Investments Corporation, a company nominated by Star Chance Limited for a total cash consideration of USD3,950,000.00 or equivalent to the sum of RM18,454,000.
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SKL, MTD Sign MOU On To Be Approved Elevated Highway Along Klang River
Sungai Klang Link Sdn. Bhd. signs MOU with MTD Construction Sdn Bhd on the proposed elevated highway project by SKL to the Government.
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Cybercrimes: Types And Tips
By Khairul Akma Mahamad & Raja Nur Zafira Raja Sharudin
Rapid developments in Internet technology and the cyber world have created new opportunities for irresponsible people to take advantage of internet users. The number of cybercrime cases in Malaysia has been increasing year on year. Despite the efforts by various Malaysian institutions, Malaysia is still considered a hotspot for cybercrime. The popular word nowadays, is ‘scam’. Who has never heard that – from kids to the elderly – everyone knows about the word. A lot of people are complacent about their online safety because of the sense that they have nothing of value to be stolen. Without knowing any better, many people believe that their data is safe from cybercriminals simply because they don’t use the Internet much or they delete their browsing history after each session.
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