Proptech (short for property technology) has been a buzzword in the real estate industry, both in Malaysia and around the world, in recent years. Broadly, it describes the application of technology in the property industry, with proptech start-ups becoming visible across the real estate value cha...

Property - Is proptech changing the real estate industry?

To survive the new normal, enterprises are speeding up the implementation of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR4.0) to future-proof their businesses. Going forward, new technologies and innovations are expected to gain traction.

The global business and ma...

4th industrial revolution - Urgency to fast track 4IR

Since the start of the year, e-commerce platforms around the world have seen a huge surge in transactions. Even better, consumers and businesses are looking to do good as shopping moves quickly from offline to online.

The Covid-19 pandemic has change...

E-Commerce - Fuelling the e-commerce boom

If online grocery shopping seemed a novel idea five years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic and Movement Control Order (MCO) are a testament that not only is it here to stay, there is also potential for growth.

For online delivery service HappyFresh, which offers handpicked items from supermar...

E-Commerce - Growing acceptance of online grocery shopping

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted almost every industry and many sectors, from tourism and airlines to food and beverage, are still struggling to regain their footing. But the pandemic has also created winners such as e-commerce, which is now an essential business service for consumers.

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E-Commerce - Astro’s Go Shop meets soaring demand

Technology has played a big role in supporting the continuation of teaching and learning during the recent lockdowns. It is also changing what and how we learn.

At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year, governments around the world te...

Education - Education disrupted

The Covid-19 pandemic may have delayed the rollout of the fifth generation (5G) of mobile networks (a crucial enabler of digitalisation) in some countries for various reasons but at the same time, it has highlighted the need to fast-forward its adoption.
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Tech - 5G to reshape businesses and cities

The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event. Countries all over the world had to impose lockdowns to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

In Malaysia, the Movement Control Order (MCO) resulted in companies having to rely on digital platforms and becoming more creative to keep thei...

Matrix Concepts’ digital innovation

The digital transformation of an organisation, once considered a nice-to-have, is now viewed as critical for business survival, allowing businesses to quickly respond and adapt to change. This has been one of the key lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Overview: Making the digital leap

In the US, cyber-attacks against the financial sector surged by 238% between February and April this year, the peak period when the Covid-19 pandemic was fast spreading across the country and stay-at-home orders were implemented.

“At an alarming rate, transnational organised crime group...

Cyber fraud increasing as bank transactions shift online

One of the biggest opportunities to come out of the Covid-19 crisis is the rapid uptake of digital banking. Stay-home orders have compelled many customers to start using online financial services. And this shift is unlikely to reverse, especially with digital banks com...

Finance - No looking back as pace of digital banking accelerates

Asia leads the revolution in digital payments

In the past decade, China has embraced a payment system based on smartphones and QR codes (two-dimensional bar codes), while the rest of the world has continued to transact with magnetic cards issued by b...

The rise of China’s cashless innovations

Value-added features, hygiene concerns and business initiatives are accelerating the shift to a cashless society

The adoption of digital payments in Southeast Asia has reached an inflection point and is projected to cross the US$1 trillion milestone ...

Finance - Digital payments give users more bang for their ringgit

In the last 10 years, the pace of digitalisation across the globe and in Malaysia has taken on a quicker tempo. Alongside, we have also seen the mushrooming of tech start-ups. While some may not survive the economic crisis, others are seeing opportunities and upping th...

Start-Ups - Riding the digitalisation wave

Malaysia's still-robust growth is handing its central bank strong leverage to manage rising inflation risks in the final quarter of the year, economists said.

Robust growth gives BNM strong footing to confront inflation risks, economists say

For a decade, Southeast Asia has sold a rather attractive story about the US–China rift: let the giants throw furniture at each other; we will take the factory bookings.

Opinion: China’s export boom has a hidden bill; Asean is already paying

Strata Sense Part 5: Defusing the Capex Time Bomb

Singapore has identified seven companies it says were involved in wildfires in Indonesia that are choking the city-state with haze, and plans to issue notices requiring them to take preventive measures, the Business Times reported.

Singapore identifies seven companies for haze-causing fires — report

All educational institutions, including schools and childcare centres (taska), must be closed if the Air Pollutant Index (API) reading exceeds 200, following the prolonged haze affecting several areas, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).

MOH: School must close, public gatherings halted if API exceeds 200 

CoreWeave's shares and bonds were headed for steep weekly losses on Friday, as investors grew uneasy about the debt financing behind the AI build-out in the face of rising borrowing costs.

CoreWeave shares, bonds headed for steep weekly losses as AI borrowing concerns mount

PETRONAS and Vietnam National Industry–Energy Group (Petrovietnam) have signed a strategic alliance agreement to strengthen their 35-year partnership and advance energy security, sustainability and long-term growth.

PETRONAS, Petrovietnam sign strategic alliance to deepen 35-year energy partnership

China proposed adding advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to its export-control list, potentially restricting overseas transfers of AI models and chip designs in an effort to keep closer control over homegrown advancements in a strategically important sector.

China plans AI tech export curbs to manage security risks

Five Malaysians arrested for concealing 5kg of cocaine in their shoe soles at Haneda International Airport in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct 10 are believed to be drug mules paid RM8,000 each.

Malaysian drug mules paid RM8,000 each to smuggle cocaine in shoes to Japan — police

A 16-year-old shooter opened fire on Thursday at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, killing four people including three children, before being killed by an armed member of the community who had pursued the assailant into the school, police said.

Shooter kills four at Oregon elementary school before being shot dead by community member

The Johor Bahru High Court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a Maybank customer who lost nearly RM60,000 in allegedly&nbsp;unauthorised online transfers after scanning a third-party QR code, ruling that the dispute must proceed to a full trial.

High Court reinstates customer's suit against Maybank over funds allegedly siphoned after QR scan

Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) failed to obtain a stay on the High Court’s April decision ordering it and the wound-up developer, Fame Modulation Sdn Bhd, to pay RM1.3 million in damages to two former civil servants. 
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DBKL fails to halt RM1.3 mil payment order over structural damage to Cheras retired civil servants’ home 

Zetrix AI Bhd (KL:ZETRIX) acknowledged a potential breach of a sukuk's clause that requires the digital services firm’s managing director to remain as its single-largest shareholder.

Zetrix AI acknowledges potential breach of sukuk covenant

Malaysia-China cooperation in technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has secured thousands of training opportunities for Malaysians, with the partnership now focusing on developing skilled talent for high-value jobs in emerging technologies.

Malaysia-China cooperation to prepare talent for higher-value jobs, says Zahid

China’s campaign to promote the global use of the yuan appears to be accelerating as the authorities seek to build a more comprehensive financial ecosystem for the currency beyond just trade settlement.

China’s plan to make yuan a global currency enters faster phase

The High Court has given more time to Tan Sri Shahrir Samad and Tan Sri Tommy Thomas to iron out settlement terms in the former Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) chairman's malicious-prosecution suit against the former attorney general.

Shahrir Samad, ex-AG Tommy Thomas to update court on Nov 11 of possible settlement in malicious-prosecution suit

UBB Amanah Bhd has said that there would be delays in its trust income and maturity payments for October, due to "temporary liquidity constraints arising from delayed repayments by certain investee companies".

UBB Amanah defers October trust payouts amid ‘temporary liquidity constraints’

Kepong Member of Parliament Lim Lip Eng has called on the Prisons Department to disclose the conditions governing convicted former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s house arrest.

Kepong MP calls for public disclosure of Najib’s house arrest terms

Malaysia’s economy expanded faster than expected in the third quarter as growth of manufacturing and services sectors offset a contraction in mining activities, official flash estimates showed.

Malaysia’s economy outperforms with 5.3% expansion in 3Q, official flash estimates show

The Sessions Court here was told on Friday that local fashion company&nbsp;FashionValet Sdn Bhd&nbsp;received investment funds totalling nearly RM40 million from Khazanah Nasional Bhd and Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) eight years ago.

FashionValet received investment of almost RM40 mil from Khazanah, PNB, says witness

EGH International Bhd (KL:ECOGRP) fell in its ACE Market trading debut on Friday amid relatively weak demand for the interior fit-out firm’s shares.

EGH International stumbles in ACE Market debut

Eligible renewable energy developers under the Corporate Renewable Energy Supply Scheme (CRESS) Acceleration Package (CAP) will benefit from a fixed system access charge (SAC) of 14 sen per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for 10 years, while green consumers will be subject to a separate charge of four sen/kWh.

CRESS charges fixed at 14 sen/kWh for developers, four sen for green consumers — Energy Commission

Genting Property Sdn Bhd, the property division of Genting Plantations Bhd (KL:GENP), has entered into a strategic partnership with Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd to master-plan Johor Tech Smart City (JTSC), including its flagship 430-acre smart campus within the Knowledge AI Campus.

Genting Property partners Huawei to master-plan 430-acre smart campus at Johor Tech Smart City

A local assembly operation by Chinese carmaker BYD&nbsp;will offer incremental upside to Sime Darby Bhd (KL:SIME) which controls the plant, an analyst said. 
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BYD local assembly offers incremental upside to Sime Darby — analyst

Malaysian banking stocks could see some stability towards the end of 2026 as declining global bond yields provide an opportunity for banks to recover investment losses, said MBSB Research.

Banks eye year-end stability on lower bond yields; dividends 'too attractive to ignore' — MBSB

Malaysia’s six homegrown semiconductor innovations developed under the Semiconductor IC Design Park have an estimated combined sales potential of RM300 million, said Economy Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir. However, he did not specify when the sales target could be achieved.

Six chips developed under Semiconductor IC Design Park have RM300m sales potential, says minister

Ormond Group, the hospitality arm of ECM Libra Group Bhd (KL:ECM), broke ground for the 396-key Ormond Desaru resort in Johor on Friday.&nbsp; 
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Ormond Group breaks ground for Ormond Desaru resort

Singapore has identified seven companies it says were involved in wildfires in Indonesia that are choking the city-state with haze, and plans to issue notices requiring them to take preventive measures, the Business Times reported.&nbsp;

The upfront costs incurred by CelcomDigi Bhd (KL:CDB) and Maxis Bhd (KL:MAXIS) for the latest spectrum awards are expected to be offset by capital expenditure savings and lower network costs, according to Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB).

CelcomDigi, Maxis spectrum costs to be offset by capex and network savings — HLIB

(Oct 15): Is an October Fed hike back on the table? The release of hot headline and core September US inflation figures sent markets into a tailspin on Wednesday, with futures markets at one point showing as much as a ​50-50 chance that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates again this mont...

Malaysia's Digital Transformation

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