<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>SINGAPORE (Feb 3): Wee Cho Yaw, chairman emeritus of United Overseas Bank (UOB), has passed away. He was 95.</div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>For decades, Wee is synonymous with the bank his father Kheng Chiang founded in 1935 in Sarawak, to a leading Singapore-based international banking group with a market value of around S$50 billion (RM175.49 billion).</div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner>For years, after he stepped down from his official posts in the bank, Wee was known to still go into the bank’s office at Raffles Place regularly<a href="https://www.theedgesingapore.com/news/obituary/eminent-banker-wee-cho-yaw-uob-dies-95" target="_blank">...(click here for the full story on theedgesingapore.com).</a></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

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Wee Cho Yaw, chairman emeritus of United Overseas Bank (UOB), has passed away. He was 95.

For decades, Wee is synonymous with the bank his father Kheng Chiang founded in 1935 in Sarawak, to a leading Singapore-based international banking group with a market value of around S$50 billion (RM175.49 billion).

Eminent banker Wee Cho Yaw of UOB dies at 95

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The number of oncologists in Malaysia is expected to increase to 400 by 2040, up from the current 175, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad.

He stated that this target can be achieved with Malaysia’s participation in the Fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) in Clinical Oncology.

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The government is working to expand the network of cancer centres in Malaysia, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof said.

He said two new centres will be established as part of this initiative — the Northern Region Cancer Centre in Kedah and the Sarawak Cancer Centre in Kota Samarahan, Sarawak.

Boeing's and its largest union said on Friday that contract talks will resume on Oct 7, as both sides seek an agreement to end a strike by around 33,000 of the planemaker's US West Coast factory workers.

Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, beat expectations to post its highest-ever revenue for the third quarter on strong demand for artificial intelligence (AI) servers.

British finance minister Rachel Reeves said she will introduce "guardrails" to ensure that extra borrowing for investment in her first budget is not excessive as she seeks to reassure investors about an expected rise in public debt.