Policymakers, economists and experts have recently been talking about our government debt level.

As at the end of 2022, the federal government debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio stood at 60.4%. Including the off-budget or contingent liabilities, our total public debt had reached...

My Say: Good and bad news about the government’s debt level

Star Media Group held its extraordinary general meeting (EGM) as scheduled on May 31. The resolution on the disposal of properties — two units of double-storey semi-detached factory and warehouse annexed with a 1½-storey office building plus other ancillary buildings — to Matang in exchange for a 13% stake in the latter (plus RM4.1 million cash for a total consideration of RM33 million) was voted down by the majority shareholdings.

Tong's Portfolio: Share investors like outcome of Star Media Group’s EGM

Business leaders across the globe are regularly asking themselves some form of the following four questions:

1.     How do I navigate today’s environment of extraordinary uncertainty?

2.     How likely are...

My Say: Leaders navigating an uncertain world

Dispelling the notion of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) turning into a fund that works more for the rich following massive Covid-19 withdrawals, its chief executive officer Datuk Seri Amir Hamzah Azizan cites hard facts about who 80% of its members are.

Double cover: EPF dispels impression it’s a rich man’s club + MAHB on making KLIA great again

Champions or cheats?” That is the question. And it is being asked as the significance of Manchester City’s evisceration of Real Madrid in the Champions League, and fifth English Premier League (EPL) crown in six years, begins to sink in. As brightly as the players have shone on the field, they co...

Business Of Sports: Conundrums of war: Manchester City in power battle for football supremacy

The sovereign debt crisis was high on the agenda at this year’s spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with all eyes on China, the biggest creditor to the developing world, and the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank’s fund for the poo...

The New Global Economy: Growing out of the developing-country debt crisis

IN March last year, the initial public offering (IPO) of Johor-based integrated dairy producer Farm Fresh Bhd, which raised RM1 billion, including fresh capital of RM301 million, was seen as a breath of fresh air for the local bourse.

Previously, investors who wanted exposure to the con...

Cover Story: Analysts see Farm Fresh as the cream of the crop among dairy stocks 

WHEN Farm Fresh Bhd started with 60 Holstein Jersey cows from Australia at its farm in Johor, nobody would have expected the home-grown dairy product specialist to come this far.

Spearheaded by its co-founder and managing director Loi Tuan Ee, a farmer turned entrepreneur who grew up in...

Cover Story: Farm Fresh moves up the dairy value chain

One of the defining developments of our time is the increasingly fractious relationship between the US and China. No one should underestimate the dangers posed by two nuclear-armed big powers pushing and shoving against each other. That is all the more the case for Southeast Asia, which will be o...

My Say: Is geopolitical turbulence really so bad for our region?

Seven years ago, in April 2016, Malaysia officially signed on to the Paris Agreement to pledge its commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. But since then, there has been no sight of a definitive road map to achieve this national goal, leading to questions on whether this remains only an ...

My Say: Carbon pricing for our future

What was the RM2.3 bil UEM/Renong transaction 26 years ago that MACC is now investigating? 

MINI-market operator KK Supermart & Superstore Sdn Bhd, which generates about RM1 billion in annual revenue, is weighing the option of floating its shares on Bursa Malaysia, possibly within the next one to three years.

Ahead of the potential listing, the retailer is on an expansion ...

KK Supermart mulls listing, speeds up expansion

ON the evening of Nov 8, 2016, US president-elect Donald Trump and his supporters were celebrating his election win at the New York Hilton in midtown Manhattan. As the results poured in, stock market futures were in free fall because investors were nervous about the incoming president’s policies....

The rise and fall of Wall Street legend Carl Icahn

LOW-profile plastic packaging company Thong Guan Industries Bhd has seen stellar growth in its top and bottom line over the last five years, on the back of increasing demand for premium stretch film in Europe.

The group charted a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of almost 10% in reven...

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