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KUALA LUMPUR: After a stellar 16% rally last year, small-cap stocks in Malaysia have had a rough start to 2018 as investors switch to defensive blue chips ahead of the nation’s 14th general election...
KUALA LUMPUR (April 23): The FBM KLCI fell 0.28% at the midday break today, while small capitalisation and technology-related stocks also fell. At 12.30pm, the FBM KLCI fell 5.35 points to 1,882.40. T...
SINGAPORE: Singapore's headline inflation rate eased to 0.2 per cent in March from 0.5 per cent in February, mostly due to a smaller increase in the prices of services and a fall in private road ...
PETALING JAYA: The Public Relations Consultants’ Association of Malaysia (PRCA Malaysia) has recently elected its new executive Committee (Exco) for 2018 – 2020.
PUTRAJAYA (April 23): Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president Mohd Rafizi Ramli and an online news portal owner today withdrew their appeals against a decision which struck out their defence of fai...
Payments from immigrants back to their home countries rebounded to reach a new record in 2017 but the costs of transferring funds also increased, the World Bank said Monday.
The Nokia 8 Sirocco is the company's best looking handset in at least a decade
Neither U.S. nor China will back down from current trade tensions. And Beijing is likely to go after American technology companies including Apple and Qualcomm to retaliate as the fight escalates.
BEIJING (April 23): President Xi Jinping’s big push to curb pollution and excess capacity in steel and other industries is also consolidating his government’s control over them. Just last year, th...
Automakers, artificial intelligence companies, and ride-haling apps are all converging on the idea that electric robo-taxis represent the future of transportation, which puts China's Uber-clone D...
KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit opened marginally lower against the US dollar today on a lack of market demand, a dealer said.
BENGALURU (April 23): Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) said it would book a loss of A$632 million (US$484 million) on the divestment of two of its wealth businesses last year, which will ...
Discovering and diagnosing cancer may have just become much easier thanks to augmented reality. Google Research this week revealed an AR microscope (ARM) capable of detecting cancerous cells in real...
KUALA LUMPUR: Global investors ramped up their buying activity last week, marking the third uninterrupted week of inflows to stocks listed on Bursa, according to MIDF Research.
Tonight’s premiere episode of Westworld season two is littered with bodies. They’re both artificial intelligence hosts and dead human beings as well. It’s a reminder of the consequences of what ...
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Toshiba Corp said on Monday it is still aiming to complete the sale of its memory chip business soon, following media reports it had decided to cancel the US$18.6 billion sale if it did not get appro...
Asian stocks started in muted fashion on Monday as investors braced for a bevy of earnings from the world's largest corporations, while keeping a wary eye on U.S. bond yields as they approached p...
KUALA LUMPUR: The FBM KLCI index closed at a record high of 1,896.18 points last Thursday, after more than a three-year wait when it last tested this level. What is even more impressive is that during...
Stefan Panic and Joe Arsenault used to dream of building things in Minecraft for a living. But until recently, they couldn’t quite figure out how. While Panic worked odd jobs and lived with his fath...
GUEST: The PlayStation 4 continues to dominate the airwaves, at least when it comes to advertising on broadcast and cable TV. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement com...
LONDON: Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders this week and the Reuters stories related to them.
BEIJING: China's ZTE is seeking a resolution to a U.S. ban on selling it parts and software that it has said threatens its survival.
The global economic outlook looks promising — especially if you are an Asian exporter, says one observer at the Financial Times.
