To feel the impact of inflation, just go to the supermarket. Global food prices started to increase in mid-2021, but the war in Ukraine exacerbated the trend through its impact on commodity prices.

High food prices  have become world’s nightmare

As former prime minister and ex-finance minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak begins his 12-year sentence in Kajang Prison following the Federal Court’s ruling that the findings of the High Court judge in the SRC International case are sound and that the Court of Appeal's decision to uphold the lower court's guilty verdict was also correct, the focus is now on the various charges against other players in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal, especially Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, who is still at large.

The hunt for justice

Malaysia’s decarbonisation pathway

It appears that pragmatism is a trait shared by Malaysian businesses and consumers alike. A survey conducted by Dutch payment company Adyen showed that Malaysian businesses and consumers learnt to work around the pandemic-related restrictions during lockdown.

Malaysian businesses embrace technology to survive

Despite having made progress over the years, Malaysia still has a long way to go to narrow the gender gap, studies find.

Gender inequality in Malaysia

Following the sharp depreciation of the ringgit against the US dollar and Singapore dollar in recent weeks, Bank Negara Malaysia and the Ministry of Finance had at end-July pronounced the ringgit to be relatively stable.