<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>KUALA LUMPUR (June 2): MQ Technology Bhd has appointed Datuk Nurul Hidayah Ahmad Zahid as its vice chairman effective Thursday (June 2).</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Nurul Hidayah, 44, is the daughter of &nbsp;Umno president and former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.&nbsp;</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Her working experience include serving as vice president of corporate communication (general manager) at Syarikat Perumahan Negara Bhd from December 2012 to April 2016, according to the group’s filing with Bursa Malaysia.&nbsp;</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Nurul Hidayah holds a degree in communications from Universiti Putra Malaysia and Masters in Business Administration from Lincoln University College.&nbsp;</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>In a separate filing, MQ Tech announced the appointment of Chean Meng Hee as its new CEO and the redesignation of its chief operating officer, Tong Sian Shyen, as its managing director.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Both changes are effective Thursday.&nbsp;</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>MQ Technology provides a rapid tooling and prototyping division, which develops molds, tools, dies, jigs and fixtures used in the manufacture of hard disk drives, automotive and medical industries.&nbsp;</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Shares in MQ Tech ended unchanged at five sen on Thursday, giving the group a market capitalisation of RM44.68 million.</p></div>


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<p>Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's maiden official visit to Peru has generated potential exports worth RM1.24 billion (US$0.3 billion), particularly in high potential sectors on the initiative of the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade).</p>


<p>China and the European Union have reached “technical consensus” in their talks aimed at scaling back or reversing tariffs that the bloc applied to China-made electric vehicles (EVs), according to a posting on a Weibo account affiliated with the state-run <em>China Central Television</em> (<em>CCTV</em>).</p>


<p>Malaysia and the Republic of Guinea should intensify their engagement, particularly in market access and technical assistance, said Deputy Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Liew Chin Tong.</p>


<p>Bill Hwang, the founder of Archegos Capital Management, should spend 21 years in prison for running a market manipulation scheme that wiped out his US$36 billion (RM161.06 billion) firm and cost its lenders more than US$10 billion, federal prosecutors said on Friday.</p>
