There is a Chinese proverb  that says when brothers are united, their strength would be as powerful as a sword that can slash metal. Essentially, it means that nothing is impossible when brothers unite to achieve a mission.

Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd, a multi-billion-ringgi...

Company Of The Year: BIG CAP COMPANIES — RM10 BILLION TO RM40 BILLION MARKET CAPITALISATION, Industrial Products & Services: Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd - From a small seed, a giant has grown

On July 23, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad launched the National Strategy for Financial Literacy 2019-2023. The strategy sets out priorities and action plans to equip Malaysians with the knowledge they need to make informed financial decisions and nurture healthy attitudes towards ...

Helping to make youth financially savvy

Despite patchy global economic prospects in the past three years, for Gas Malaysia Bhd, there has been only one direction for its earnings and shareholder returns: up.

In the three-year period between the financial year ended Dec 31, 2016 (FY2016), and FY2018, Gas Malaysia saw nearly 70...

Highest return on equity over three years, Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: UTILITIES: Gas Malaysia Bhd - Rising earnings and returns like no other

Mega First Corp Bhd lost two income generators last year as two of its power plants in China and Sabah respectively were discontinued. But this did not affect the company’s financial performance.

Furthermore, its shareholders have enjoyed the highest returns over three years in the util...

Highest Returns to Shareholders over three years: UTILITIES: Mega First Corp Bhd - Don Sahong hydropower DAM DRIVES POWERFUL EARNINGS GROWTH

The rising traffic volume in the Klang Valley speaks well for Lingkaran Trans Kota Holdings Bhd’s (Litrak) earnings growth over the past few years.

Litrak operates several intra-Kuala Lumpur toll roads. It wholly owns the Damansara-Puchong Expressway (LDP) and holds a 50% stake in Siste...

Highest return on equity over three years, Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: TRANSPORTATION & LOGISTICS: Lingkaran Trans Kota Holdings Bhd - Urbanisation Sustains Steady Earnings Growth

Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd recorded it highest ever profit after tax (PAT) in its financial year ended Jan 31, 2018 (FY2018), in an environment of declining advertising expenditure.

The group attributed its sterling performance to its increasingly diversified revenue base and relentles...

Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: Telecommunications & Media: Astro Malaysia Holdings Bhd - Banking on solid fundamentals for challenges ahead

In an increasingly challenging telecoms landscape, Time dotCom Bhd stands out in terms of the returns it has delivered over the past three financial years.

If a shareholder had bought the stock on March 31, 2016, and exited on March 31, 2019, they would have obtained an average return o...

Highest Returns to Shareholders over three years: TELECOMMUNICATIONS & MEDIA: Time dotCom Bhd - Sole player with rising share price

Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd’s (MAHB) earnings for the past three financial years between the financial year ended Dec 31, 2016 (FY2016) and FY2018 increased by leaps and bounds.

In FY2016, its net profit rose 72% to RM70.4 million, from RM40.9 million the year before. Growth was even...

Highest Returns to Shareholders over three years: Transportation and logistics: Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd - Earnings grow by leaps and bounds

Global sales of semiconductors rose to a new high of US$468.8 billion last year, according to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS). This speaks well for the industry worldwide, including Malaysia’s.

The explosion of applications of connected devices translates into more orders fo...

Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: TECHNOLOGY (JOINT-WINNER): Frontken Corp Bhd - Global Semiconductor Sales Growth Fuelled Group’s Profits

The demand for gloves remains high on the back of rising healthcare spending despite continued capacity expansion worldwide adding supply to the market. Hartalega Holdings Bhd, the world’s largest nitrile glove maker, saw sales increase 37 times over 12 years to 27.2 billion pieces in 2018.
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Highest return on equity over three years, Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: HEALTHCARE: Hartalega Holdings Bhd - Health awareness fuel for earnings growth

Apex Healthcare Bhd has certainly hit it out of the ballpark. Its share price soared 156% from 85 sen on March 31, 2016, to RM2.18 on March 29 this year, giving a total return of 36.2%, including dividends.

Shareholders of the pharmaceutical group have received regular — and rising — di...

Highest Returns to Shareholders over three years: HEALTHCARE: Apex Healthcare Bhd - A home run for its shareholders

ViTrox Corp Bhd’s rapid earnings growth, at more than 30%, has made it a shining star in the technology industry. The semiconductor firm saw a three-year compound annual growth rate of 33.51% in its profit after tax (PAT), which swelled from RM44.32 million in FY2015 to RM105.48 million in FY2018...

Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: TECHNOLOGY (JOINT-WINNER): ViTrox Corp Bhd - Boosted by innovative product offerings

Pentamaster Corp Bhd has come a long way from the simple automation house co-founded by chairman Chuah Choon Bin in 1995. This once small setup is now a public listed company with a market capitalisation of more than RM2 billion, and which specialises in the provision of factory automation equipm...

Highest Returns to Shareholders over three years, Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: TECHNOLOGY: Pentamaster Corp Bhd - Below-the-radar company with above average results

GHL Systems Bhd, previously a credit card payment device supplier, has now evolved into a key player in the value chain of the cashless payment system with footprints in Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.

The company is well positioned to ride the payment revolution in Asean — from...

Highest growth in profit after tax over three years: TECHNOLOGY (JOINT WINNER): GHL Systems Bhd - Making money out of cashless payments

The industrial subsector is expected to continue its positive trend in 2025, according to Henry Butcher Malaysia chief operating officer Tang Chee Meng. The Henry Butcher Perspective - Malaysia Property Outlook 2025 report, which was launched on Wednesday, noted that the volume of industrial transactions in the first nine months of 2024 (9M2024) increased by 6.5%, while the value rose 22.8%.

Henry Butcher: Malaysia's industrial subsector to continue strong performance

SRC International Sdn Bhd’s former director Datuk Suboh Md Yasin told the High Court on Wednesday that he signed four blank cheques that led to RM19.5 million going to Umno and Umno Selangor.

Former SRC director says he signed blank cheques, didn’t know payments were to Umno

Debt costs pushed up UK government borrowing more than forecast last month, highlighting the fiscal challenges facing Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves.

UK budget deficit soars more than forecast on debt costs

Global stocks rose on Wednesday as a flurry of new policies from US President Donald Trump combined with robust corporate earnings to bolster investor optimism, while tariff uncertainty kept the dollar near two-week lows.

Stocks get tech boost, tariff uncertainty weighs on dollar 

Datuk Seri Najib Razak denies seeking royalties from the Middle East to help stepson Riza Aziz over his alleged entanglement with 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) funds, the court heard on Wednesday.

Najib says stepson was already servicing loan from Emerati prince, phone call only to formalise agreement

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Malaysia’s international reserves fell by US$700 million by mid-January this year, from a fortnight earlier, according to Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).

BNM: Malaysia’s international reserves dip to US$115.5 bil as at mid-January 2025

EDGE WEEKLY: Decoding Malaysia’s new electricity tariff plan

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) on Wednesday kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged as widely expected, comfortable with its outlook for sustained economic growth and manageable inflation.

BNM keeps OPR steady, takes comfort in sustained growth

(Jan 22): Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Wednesday that he has convened a committee to review electoral boundaries, in a sign that the government may call for an early national vote in the Southeast Asian city-state.

Singapore takes first key step towards holding 2025 election

Arina, Sime Darby Property Bhd’s (KL:SIMEPROP) first single-storey linked homes in Bandar Ainsdale, achieved full take-up of all 118 units within hours of its launch on Saturday, Jan 18.

Sime Darby Property’s Arina single-storey homes in Bandar Ainsdale fully taken up within hours of launch

Sunway Bhd (KL:SUNWAY) has started the ball rolling for the initial public offer (IPO) of its healthcare unit, sources told The Edge.

Maybank Investment Bank Bhd and AmInvestment Bank Bhd are said to be the front-runners as principal advisers for the IPO of Sunway Healthcare Group, the sources said.

Sunway shortlists bankers for healthcare unit's IPO 

MIDF Research said&nbsp;the recent selldown of data centre-linked construction stocks&nbsp;may have been overdone as it sees the US’ AI chip export restrictions having minimal impact on data centre operations here.

In a note, MIDF Research said this prompted&nbsp;its upgrade on&nbsp;Sunway Construction Group Berhad (KL:SUNCON) to a “buy”, from “neutral”.

MIDF says selldown on data centre-related stocks overdone, upgrades SunCon

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Malaysia’s property market is now showing signs of improvement that will lift Malaysian banking stocks under pressure from uncertainties over data-centre outlook, according to CIMB Securities.

CIMB Securities: Malaysian property market now showing signs of improvement that will lift banking stocks

(Jan 22): US&nbsp;President Donald&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;on Tuesday announced&nbsp;a&nbsp;private&nbsp;sector&nbsp;investment&nbsp;of up to US$500&nbsp;billion (RM2.23 trillion) to fund&nbsp;infrastructure&nbsp;for artificial intelligence (AI),&nbsp;aiming to outpace rival nations in the business-critical technology.

Trump announces private-sector US$500 bil investment in AI infrastructure

Malaysia's currency hit a six-week high and stocks advanced for a fourth straight session on Wednesday ahead of a central bank policy decision, while a gauge of emerging Asian equities reversed course weighed by China on US tariff plans.

Ringgit hits six-week high ahead of BNM decision

Founders of FashionValet Sdn Bhd Datin Vivy Yusof and her husband Datuk Fadzarudin Shah Anuar have been charged with the misappropriation of RM8 million from Khazanah Nasional Bhd and Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), belonging to the company.

FashionValet founders claim trial to alternative charges of fund misappropriation

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to hit the European Union with tariffs and said his administration was discussing a 10% punitive duty on Chinese imports because fentanyl is being sent from China to the US via Mexico and Canada.

Trump stirs tariff pot with fresh threats on EU, Feb 1 China deadline

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): TechStore Bhd, which provides hardware and software to businesses, has fixed its initial public offering (IPO) price at 20 sen per share ahead of its listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia.

Enterprise hardware and software firm TechStore sets IPO price at 20 sen

President Donald Trump said he would be open to billionaire supporter Elon Musk or Oracle Corp chairman Larry Ellison purchasing social video app TikTok as part of a joint venture with the US government.

Trump says he’s open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok

Global stocks rose on Wednesday as a flurry of new policies from US President Donald Trump combined with robust corporate earnings to bolster investor optimism, while tariff uncertainty kept the dollar near two-week lows.

Analysts are positive on Sunway Real Estate Investment Trust’s (KL:SUNREIT) acquisition of AEON Mall Seri Manjung in Perak, prompting revisions of their earnings forecasts.

Analysts raise Sunway REIT earnings forecasts after AEON Mall acquisition in Perak

Indonesia's antitrust agency on Tuesday ordered Google to pay fines about 202 billion rupiah (US$12.4 million or RM55.3 million) for unfair business practices related to its payment system services for Google Play Store, its software distribution platform.

Indonesia fines Google US$12.4m for unfair business practices

DAVOS, Switzerland (Jan 21): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said digitalisation is a "missing component" in all of Malaysia's previous free trade agreements (FTAs).

PM: Malaysia seeks to upgrade its free trade agreements to cover digitalisation

Over the past two years, the Biden administration struck a careful balance on artificial intelligence. The White House took steps to ensure the US stayed ahead of China in developing the technology while also trying to address some of AI’s many potential risks.

Trump pushes to make US an AI superpower, with fewer guardrails 

President Donald Trump faces a host of headwinds that could thwart his ability to generate a boom for the US economy, according to Harvard University professor Ken Rogoff.

Trump’s plan to trigger boom risks coming undone, Rogoff warns

Inflation in Malaysia eased slightly and was marginally slower than expected in December as prices of non-food items and services rose at a more moderate pace, official data released on Wednesday showed.

Malaysia’s inflation in December slows as non-food price pressure eases, official data shows

Lawmakers in some of Asia’s key digital-assets markets are warming to the industry as Donald Trump’s pro-crypto agenda in the US ripples through the region.

Crypto fears ease in Asia as officials aim to keep up with Trump

SRC International Sdn Bhd’s former director Datuk Suboh Md Yasin told the High Court on Wednesday that he signed four blank cheques that led to RM19.5 million going to Umno and Umno Selangor.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he did not interfere with the attorney general’s (AG) prosecutorial discretion while he was prime minister.&nbsp;

Najib claims he was mindful not to interfere in AG's prosecutions 

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 22): Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) on Wednesday kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged as widely expected, comfortable with its outlook for sustained economic growth and manageable inflation.

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