KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Kazakhstan is set to hold a referendum on nuclear energy as it seeks to diversify its energy needs away from fossil fuels and achieve its emissions reduction targets President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced during a state-of-the-nation address.
The ability of the United States to pursue its foreign policy in Southeast Asia, aimed at countering China and strategically containing Russia, is shrinking as the member states refuse to participate in Washington's efforts to contain Russian and China.
Law minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar has been in the news a lot recently but unlike many other politicians who are the subject of media coverage
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--The 7th International Palm Oil Sustainability Conference 2022 (IPOSC 2022), to be held on Sept 13 this year will be an important platform for Malaysia to counter smear campaigns by Western vested groups against our golden commodity.
NEW YORK, U.S.--How do nations become wealthy? Many are blessed with abundant natural resources. Others conquer foreign lands. Some specialize in unique trade skills and crafts. Timber, mining, fishing, sugar, rum, narcotics, cotton, silk, agriculture, conquest, human slavery, manufacturing, oil, industry, banking, and so on — depending on the century and the region, nations have attained tremendous wealth in myriad ways. Notice that no nation has managed merely to print money and tax its citizens on the path to prosperity. Real wealth cannot simply be conjured from thin air. There must be recognized value in what a nation and its citizens possess.
ISTANBUL,Turkey, 6 JULY 2022 - Great East Capital (GEC) and Boustead Holdings Berhad (Boustead) today signed a Document of Understanding (DOU) to explore investment and collaboration opportunities that is set to launch the largest Islamic digital bank in Turkey.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Last Thursday (June 2), the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) clarified to the Malaysian media how it derived evidence of forced labour allegations and how it pursued its investigations that led to products from six Malaysian firms still being prevented from entering the US market after being slapped with Withhold Release Orders (WROs).
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Agensi Kastam dan Perlindungan Sempadan (CBP) Amerika Syarikat telah menjelaskan kepada media Malaysia pada Khamis lalu (2 Jun), bagaimana mereka memperoleh bukti dakwaan buruh paksa serta prosedur siasatan yang telah dilakukan.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--Biro Hal Ehwal Antarabangsa Pejuang mengikuti dengan penuh minat penyertaan Malaysia yang belum selesai dalam Rangka Kerja Ekonomi Indo-Pasifik (IPEF) tajaan Amerika Syarikat berikutan lawatan Perdana Menteri ke Rumah Putih baru-baru ini.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--The Pejuang International Affairs Bureau notes with interest Malaysia’s pending participation in the US sponsored Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) following the PM’s visit to the White House recently.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--The push by developed economies against palm oil – the most produced, consumed and traded edible oil – in favour of protecting the soybean (the second most-produced edible oil) trade is well-known.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--On 4th April the prime minister proudly announced that the toll for the Klang Valley highway concessions will be fixed at current rates until the end of the concession period. This involves KESAS (expiration date: 2028), LDP (2030), SPRINT (2034), and SMART (2042).
NEW YORK, U.S.--The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) says in its latest short-term energy outlook (pdf) that coal inventories in the electric power industry reached 93.7 million tons as of December 2021—an increase since September, when stockpiles hit a historic low not seen since the Carter administration.
JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia--Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic was first reported, despite the occasional challenges of new variants, many observers seem to think that the worst of the pandemic is behind us. I hope they are right.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia--If you are Malaysian and do not belong to the ruling elite Malay class, you have to be depressed by the current state of affairs in the country and its slide towards a poor imitation of what it once was.
TOP Glove Corp Bhd has been removed from three ESG (environmental, social and governance) indexes – namely the FTSE4Good Bursa Malaysia, ASEAN 5 and Emerging Markets Index – following the June 2021 FTSE4Good Index Semi Annual Review.