YTL Corp bets on teamwork and hard training to win

No stranger to The Edge Kuala Lumpur Rat Race, the YTL Corp Bhd (KL:YTL) team is excited to show its teamwork and support each other through each kilometre for the win.

Each member has bee...

Bursa Bull Charge x The Edge Kuala Lumpur Rat Race: Gearing up for the race 

The Parent Action Group for Education Malaysia (PAGE), whose core mission is to endeavour for science and mathematics to be taught and learnt in English, successfully conducted its 16th annual general meeting (AGM) in September. We had never dreamt the group would last this long, and it continues to campaign on.

Edunation: PAGE comes full circle as AI hits classrooms

From Income to Wellbeing: The State of Households 2026 (SOH 2026) is the sixth flagship report by the Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) on how Malaysian households have fared.

MY Say: Money is not everything, certainly not well-being

Summary


	The federal government’s non-tax revenue includes ‘net premium from issuance of government financial instruments’ of RM2 billion under Budget 2027
	‘Net premium from issuan...

The State of the Nation: When cash basis accounting allows net bond premiums to lift investment revenue

ONCE a niche sector in institutional real estate portfolios, data centres are now emerging as the fastest-growing sector in global real estate and infrastructure investing, driven by demand for cloud computing and AI. However, supply and demand concerns have risen, as market observers question wh...

Singapore: Data centre sector at a ‘transitional stage’, says Aprea’s John Lim 

PUBLIC capital’s yearning for data centres has cooled considerably. On Oct 13, Bloomberg reported that AirTrunk’s S-REIT initial public offering (IPO), scheduled for the Singapore Exchange this year, had been “postponed”. On Oct 8, Firmus Grid, an Australian artificial intelligence (AI) and data ...

Singapore: Data centres get a reality check

MELAKA: ELECTION WAR DRUMS BEATING \ Last state polls in Peninsular Malaysia before GE16

MELAKA: ELECTION WAR DRUMS BEATING | DAP faces tough fight to hold ground in Ayer Keroh

MELAKA: ELECTION WAR DRUMS BEATING | A tested partnership versus an uneasy alliance

SD Guthrie Bhd  (KL:SDG) president and group CEO Mohd Haris Mohd Arshad is building on the foundation laid by his predecessor, Datuk Mohamad Helmy Othman Basha, who led the group’s expansion into new business segments. Given his background as a trader, Mohd Haris is now overseeing the additi...

Cover Story: Continuing the journey

A crop of challenges confronts oil palm planters in Indonesia, from potential land seizures and regulatory uncertainty to forest fires and dry weather threatening yields. Yet, these risks have not diminished the importance of the world’s largest palm oil producer to SD Guthrie Bhd (KL:SDG).
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Indonesia: Land disputes, haze and El Niño

Summary


	SD Guthrie targets top-quartile total shareholder returns within the plantation industry by 2032
	Industrial development is expected to account for 25% of group earnings on...

Cover Story: On a mission to drive higher returns

How long can a person afford to live? It is an uncomfortable question in a world where longer life expectancy is considered one of humanity’s greatest achievements.

MY Say: Retirement: Assurance or illusion

The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and China’s extraordinary export competitiveness are just two reasons why innovation will play a critical role in a country’s economic success in the coming years.

MY Say: Asia’s innovation capacity is improving, but could be better

SEOUL (Nov 13): South Korea's government said on Friday that Google has removed latitude and longitude coordinates for South Korean territory from Google Maps and Google Earth, one of the security conditions attached to a permit granted in February to export high-precision map data.

South Korea says Google has removed Korean coordinates from maps under export permit

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 12): Lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo has applied to the High Court to discharge herself from representing comedian Harith Iskander in a lawsuit brought by Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.

Harith Iskander's lawyer applies to withdraw from Rosmah's lawsuit

(Nov 13): ByteDance Ltd plans to buy back up to US$6 billion of shares from investors at a valuation of about US$400 billion, marking a 20% uptick from a similar programme a year ago, according to people who’ve reviewed the proposal.

ByteDance plans US$6 bil buyback at US$400 bil valuation — Bloomberg

NEW DELHI/PERTH (Nov 13): Oil prices inched down on Friday and were headed for a second weekly decline as a continued US blockade of Iran eased fears of renewed fighting in the Middle East, though shipping attacks remained a supply risk.

Oil prices set for second weekly decline as Trump sticks with Iran blockade

Taiwan stocks rallied on Friday and were set for their best weekly performance in 24 years, recovering from Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang's exit that unsettled artificial intelligence (AI) stocks and cast wider uncertainty over the future of the chip sector that his firm helped build.

Taiwan shares set for best week in two decades, brush off Huang exit jitters

Investors dumped shares in Chinese AI models and hardware suppliers to the US on Friday, worried the resignation of Jensen Huang as Nvidia CEO could usher in an even deeper technological divide between the world's two biggest economies.

AI model stocks Z.AI Co and MiniMax Group fell sharply on worries of reduced access to advanced AI chips, while data centre suppliers Zhongji Innolight and Eoptolink Technology, whose businesses are heavily reliant on US markets, slumped.

Chinese AI shares tumble after Nvidia's Huang resigns

Thousands of hectares of land on palm oil and pulpwood concessions run by large listed firms were burnt during Indonesia's worst fire season in years, highlighting the role of deforestation and land clearing, a study showed on Friday.

Indonesia's forest fires caused a spike in respiratory illness at home and triggered air pollution warnings and school closures across the region, with fire emissions surging to three times the seasonal average.

Thousands of hectares burnt on land owned by listed Indonesian firms, study shows 

Malaysia is weighing how to support AirAsia without risking public funds and will not simply pump money into the private airline, said Anthony Loke, who resigned this week as the nation's transport minister.

Malaysia weighing how to aid AirAsia without risking public funds, ex-minister says

theedgemalaysia.com highlighted two stocks with negative momentum at Bursa Malaysia’s afternoon close on Friday.

Stocks with Momentum on Nov 13, 2026: Citaglobal, OCB

Microsoft Corp is struggling to restore access to some of its flagship software more than nine hours after an outage began, leaving users unable to use email and chat services in one of the tech giant’s most severe disruptions in recent memory.

Microsoft tries to fix Outlook and Copilot hours into outage

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 13): Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (Miti) said on Friday that it has never cleared Singapore-based Megaspeed International Pte Ltd or its Malaysian affiliate Speedmatrix Sdn Bhd.

Miti says never cleared Megaspeed or Malaysian affiliate Speedmatrix

(Nov 13):&nbsp;Earlier this year, Malaysia’s Zetrix AI Bhd (KL:ZETRIX) was preparing to list its artificial intelligence unit on Nasdaq and had even built an AI avatar of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. Now the onetime digital infrastructure star has lost more than 90% of its market value, is mired in debt and risks defaulting on its Islamic bonds.

Ex-Malaysia digital star that built PM’s avatar is mired in debt

Singapore charged a fifth person in relation to an AI server fraud case linked to the export of computer servers that might contain Nvidia Corp chips to Malaysia, according to a report by the Straits Times.

Singapore charges fifth person linked to Nvidia case, Straits Times says

SINGAPORE (Nov 13): Stocks in Asia were on steadier footing on Friday after a turbulent week dominated by revelations of extramarital affairs involving Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang that culminated in his resignation, in a blow to the global AI boom he helped advance.

Stocks recover from Nvidia whiplash, dollar climbs with US yields

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim faces his third electoral test this year when the state of Melaka goes to the polls on Saturday, after a frantic week in which a key minister quit over the controversial transfer of jailed former PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak to house arrest.

Anwar faces voter test after turbulent week in Malaysia politics

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 13): Malaysia Airlines has held no discussions with the government about absorbing AirAsia Group Bhd’s (KL:AAGB) domestic market share or taking over its aircraft, amid reports of efforts to the budget carrier's financial pressures.

Malaysia Airlines: No talks with govt taking over AirAsia’s routes or aircraft

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 13): PIE Industrial Bhd (KL:PIE) jumped on Friday after the electronic manufacturing services firm reported a stronger than expected quarter.

PIE Industrial surges after better than expected results

Here's a heads up on what to look out for today.

YOUR DAY AHEAD: Nov 13, 2026 

BENGALURU (Nov 13): Shares in Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) gained the most in three months after posting a 10% rise in first-half underlying net profit on Friday, and raising its forecast for annual operating earnings from its core units.

Singtel posts biggest gain since August on 1H profit rise, upgraded annual outlook

The higher average selling prices (ASPs) that lifted Hartalega Holdings Bhd's (KL:HARTA) second-quarter earnings may be difficult to sustain in the coming quarter, as easing crude oil prices threaten to reverse the recent improvement in the rubber glove maker's margins, according to analysts.

Hartalega's average selling price-driven 2Q boost is difficult to sustain — analysts

The US budget gap widened to US$404 billion in October, up 42% from the same period a year earlier, Treasury Department data showed Thursday.&nbsp;

US logs US$404 bil deficit in first month of fiscal year

A leadership crisis at Nvidia Corp. curbed the appetite for riskier corners on Wall Street, with stocks also declining as a rally in oil prices lifted Treasury yields.

Stocks fall on Nvidia rout as oil jump sinks bonds

Malaysia is weighing how to support AirAsia without risking public funds and will not simply pump money into the private airline, said Anthony Loke, who resigned this week as the nation's transport minister.

Delays in aircraft deliveries could disrupt Malaysia Airlines’ expansion plans and weigh on its future earnings, said its president and group chief executive officer Captain Nasaruddin A Bakar.

Aircraft delivery delays could weigh on Malaysia Airlines’ earnings, expansion plans — CEO

(Nov 12): Agile Robots has raised $500 million ‌in a funding round led by SoftBank, valuing the German robotics company ​at $8.5 billion, it said on ​Thursday. Nvidia&nbsp;and Hitachi&nbsp;also ⁠took part.

The Munich-based maker of ​humanoid robots and robotic arms said ​it would use th...

SoftBank, Nvidia back Germany's Agile Robots at $8.5 billion valuation

WASHINGTON (Nov 12): US Senate Banking Committee chairman Tim Scott sent letters on Thursday to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Nvidia's&nbsp;former CEO Jensen Huang, asking them to testify over recent developments at the company.

US Senate Banking Committee chair calls on Jensen Huang, Lutnick to testify

PUTRAJAYA (Nov 13): The Federal Court will hear on Feb 25 next year an application by Shaariibuu Setev for permission (leave) to appeal a Court of Appeal (COA) ruling made earlier this year.&nbsp;

Federal Court to hear Altantuya’s father’s leave application on Feb 25

From Income to Wellbeing: The State of Households 2026 (SOH 2026) is the sixth flagship report by the Khazanah Research Institute (KRI) on how Malaysian households have fared.

Malaysian consumer spending appeared to have picked up pace in September as both wholesale trade and retail sales accelerated, official data on Friday showed.

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