<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 26): Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) said its Maybank2u website, which experienced intermittent slowness on Tuesday (Jan 25), is now back to normal. "Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience and continuous support,” Maybank said in a Facebook post. On Tuesday, Maybank said its Maybank2u website was experiencing intermittent slowness and that Maybank2u website users could perform their banking transactions on Maybank's MAE and Maybank2u MY applications. Maybank however did not specify reasons behind Maybank2u website’s intermittent slowness.</div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>At Bursa Malaysia on Wednesday, Maybank’s share price rose three sen or 0.36% to RM8.26 for a market value of about RM98.13 billion. Maybank’s latest-reported number of issued shares stood at 11.88 billion, according to Maybank’s Bursa filing on Dec 9, 2021.</div>
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KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 26): Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) said its Maybank2u website, which experienced intermittent slowness on Tuesday (Jan 25), is now back to normal. "Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your patience and continuous support,” Maybank said in a Faceb...

Maybank says website back to normal after intermittent slowness 

Donald Trump headlined an event billed as the unveiling of a crypto platform promoted by the Republican nominee and his sons, putting the spotlight on a niche sector of digital assets with a history of controversy.

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Thailand plans to raise government borrowing by about 8% in the fiscal year starting October to aid economic growth, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak showed up to court in a wheelchair on Tuesday after being hospitalised for acute knee inflammation last week.

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Amazon.com will require employees to return to working at company offices five days per week beginning next year, toughening a prior three-day mandate.

Amazon mandates five days a week in office starting next year

Shares of glove manufacturers surged on Tuesday, led by Hartalega Holdings Bhd (KL:HARTA) and Top Glove Corp Bhd (KL:TOPGLOV), after the US Trade Representative announced that tariffs on Chinese gloves will be raised to 50% in 2025 and 100% in 2026.

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Malaysia's Health Ministry reported on Tuesday one new case of the mpox virus infection of the clade 2 variety, a less severe variant of the disease, and said the patient had been isolated and was in a stable condition.

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Intel Corp chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has landed Amazon.com Inc’s AWS as a customer for the company’s manufacturing business, potentially bringing work to new plants under construction in the US and boosting his efforts to turn around the embattled chipmaker.&nbsp;

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Last week, the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) imposed fines amounting to RM446,092 on seven privately held companies for rigging defence-related contracts worth RM20 million.

The fine is a measly sum compared to the quantum of the contracts awarded between 2017 and 2020. It is l...

The cracks in the labor market in Las Vegas and across Nevada have typically appeared early and widened fast when the US economy soured, making the consumer-driven city and state a bellwether of sorts for the rest of the country.

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Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak showed up to court in a wheelchair on Tuesday after being hospitalised for acute knee inflammation last week.

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Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday that Japanese retail giant Seven &amp; i Holdings' new status as a company "core" to national security would not raise additional hurdles to a potential buyout.

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With just two weeks under his belt as the new chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings plc, Georges Elhedery has made it clear he’s looking to make his mark on the bank.

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(Sept 17):&nbsp;Singapore’s CapitaLand Investment Ltd&nbsp;is in advanced talks to buy a minority stake in French luxury resort chain Club Med SAS from its Chinese owner Fosun International Ltd, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

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Some investors and analysts are betting on a rebound in Hong Kong developers’ shares, anticipating that a US interest rate cut will boost property purchases.