<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>（吉隆坡26日讯）成功机构（Berjaya Corp&nbsp;Bhd）否认创办人丹斯里陈志远参与重振价值1000亿美元（4776亿令吉）森林城赌场度假村（Forest City Casino Resort）的谈判。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>彭博社昨日引述知情人士消息，指首相拿督斯里安华上周与我国两位商业大亨，即陈志远及云顶（Genting Bhd）主席丹斯里林国泰共进午餐，商议了在森林城兴建我国第二座赌场。国家元首苏丹依布拉欣陛下也派代表出席。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>成功机构今日发布文告表示，这篇文章包含了不准确的信息，歪曲了集团与首相拿督斯里安华就森林城项目进行的讨论。</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>“我们想澄清，丹斯里陈志远没有参与任何此类讨论，并驳斥文章中提出的不准确说法。”</p></div>

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<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p><em>English version</em>：<a href="https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/709478">Berjaya Corp denies participation in talks to revive Forest City casino resort</a></p></div>


（吉隆坡26日讯）成功机构（Berjaya Corp Bhd）否认创办人丹斯里陈志远参与重振价值1000亿美元（4776亿令吉）森林城赌场度假村（Forest City Casino Resort）的谈判。

成功集团否认参与重振森林城赌场度假村谈判

KAJANG (Sept 13): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has instructed on Friday, the relevant authorities, including Islamic religious departments and councils, to immediately investigate and take appropriate action relating to the alleged misconduct by GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd.

PM wants authorities, religious councils to immediately probe, take action on GISB Holdings’ alleged misconduct

DigitalBridge Group Inc is considering options, including a sale of Southeast Asian firm EdgePoint Infrastructure, people with knowledge of the matter said, in the latest sign of increasing investor demand for telecommunications assets.

DigitalBridge said to explore sale of telecom tower unit EdgePoint

The European Central Bank's two biggest shareholders expressed confidence on Friday about the prospect for lower inflation and interest rates in the eurozone.

Top ECB governors voice confidence on inflation and rates

Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms, including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co’s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks.

Russian hackers hit Taiwan's bourse, bank in surprise attack

Ericsson said on Thursday it had created a joint venture to sell software with a dozen telecom operators, including Verizon, Deutsche Telekom and Reliance Jio.

Ericsson forms company with 12 telcos to sell network software

The Japanese government added Seven & i Holdings Co to a list of “core” designated companies, a potential hurdle for Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.’s proposal to buy out the convenience-store operator.

Seven & I gets new designation, a potential hurdle for takeover

Australia, one of the world’s biggest natural gas exporters, expects to start shipping green hydrogen abroad by the end of this decade, seeking to spur sluggish progress in a global trade for the low-emissions fuel.

Australia sees hydrogen exports by 2030 in US$5b plan

Chinese President Xi Jinping called on government officials at all levels to achieve the country’s annual growth target of around 5%, but couched it in less forceful terms than usual.

Xi urges efforts to hit 5% growth target amid rising doubts

China's top legislative body has approved an amended statistics law, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, in the latest move to fight persistent data fraud amid scepticism about the reliability of data in the world's second-largest economy.

China's top legislative body approves amended statistics law to combat data fraud

China’s Defence Minister Dong Jun called for ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza through negotiations, portraying the country as a peacemaker as Beijing seeks greater influence on security matters worldwide.

China calls for talks to end wars as Beijing seeks global clout

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): Genting Bhd’s (KL:GENTING) new floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility could potentially add RM613 million per annum to its net profit from FY2027 onwards, and RM1.27 per share to fair value.&nbsp;</p>


Genting’s new FLNG facility to boost annual earnings by RM613m from FY2027 — CIMB

<p>Thirteen children at shelter homes raided by the Royal Malaysian Police in an operation recently, code-named Op Global, are suspected to have been sodomised.</p>


Cops believe 13 children from shelter homes to be victims of sodomy, open investigation papers against four men

<p>The dollar fell on Friday to its lowest this year against the yen and gold hit a record high after a dramatic overnight shift in investor expectations for a super-sized Federal Reserve interest rate cut next week.</p>


Dollar drops, gold hits record as investor mull 'coin-toss' Fed decision

<p>Former deputy minister Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim has filed a defamation suit against the Malaysia International Humanitarian Organisation and two office bearers of the non-governmental organisation (NGO).</p>


Former deputy minister sues NGO for defamation over human trafficking claims

<p>Shares of Poh Huat Resources Holdings Bhd (KL:POHUAT) fell to an 11-month low on Friday, after the furniture company reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results.</p>

<p>Poh Huat declined four sen or 3% to RM1.29, its lowest since Oct 19, 2023. At that price, the company had a market capitalisation of RM359 million. Trading volume, however, was thin at 9.30am, with 61,700 million shares changing hands.</p>


Poh Huat shares down to 11-month low after disappointing quarterly results

<p>Hong Leong Asset Management Bhd, the fund management arm of Hong Leong Financial Group Bhd (KL:HLFG), on Friday announced the appointment of Chue Kwok Yan as its chief executive officer.</p>


Hong Leong Asset Management names Chue Kwok Yan as CEO

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): East West Horizon Plantation Bhd, which manages oil palm plantation schemes, and its officers Dr Jessie Tang and Terrence Mark, were charged in the Sessions Court on Friday for alleged trust deed violation.</p>


East West Horizon Plantation charged for alleged trust deed violation

<p>Boeing's US West Coast factory workers will walk off the job after 96% voted on Thursday in favour of a strike, halting production of the planemaker's strongest-selling jet as it wrestles with chronic output delays and mounting debt.</p>


Boeing workers going on strike after 96% vote for walkout

<p>Russian hacker groups briefly disrupted Taiwanese financial platforms, including the stock exchange and lender Mega Financial Holding Co’s website, exposing the vulnerability of the island to foreign cyberattacks.</p>


<p>Malaysia’s goal of boosting investments in its growing technology export&nbsp;sector is unlikely to be affected by the results of the US election, according to Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz.</p>


Zafrul confident Malaysia's tech boom will withstand US election ripples

<p>A proposed minimum wage increase will raise the Malaysian&nbsp;plantation sector’s operating cost and push the companies to spend more on automation, Public Investment Bank said.</p>


Proposed minimum wage hike could raise palm oil companies' costs, spur automation push

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): Seal Incorporated Bhd’s (KL:SEAL) associate&nbsp;company, MSR Green Energy Sdn Bhd (MSRGE), has accepted a letter of award from Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd (SESB) for a battery energy construction job worth RM645 million.&nbsp;</p>


Seal Inc associate unit secures RM645m contract from Sabah Electricity

<p>Several companies from China are in negotiations with the authorities on investments in Perlis, especially in the Chuping area near Padang Besar.</p>

<p>The Malaysian Investment Development Board’s (Mida) Kedah and Perlis director Mohd Rushdan Mohd Ghazali said the expected new investments involve the electric vehicle (EV) industry.</p>


Chinese EV companies in talks in invest in Perlis — Mida

<p>The drama over a takeover proposal for Seven &amp; i Holdings Co has gotten investors interested in other Japanese retailers such as AEON Co, boosting their share prices.&nbsp;</p>


Seven & I takeover proposal fuels rally in Japanese retailers like AEON

<p>A rally that’s already added over US$1.3 trillion (RM5.6 trillion) to the S&amp;P 500 this week powered ahead as the latest economic data did little to alter bets on a series of Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cuts.</p>


Wall Street up as S&P 500’s rally tops US$1.3 tril this week

<p>KAJANG (Sept 13): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has&nbsp;instructed on Friday, the relevant authorities,&nbsp;including Islamic religious departments and councils, to immediately investigate and take appropriate action relating to the alleged misconduct by GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd.</p>


PM orders swift probe into, action against GISB Holdings over alleged child exploitation

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 13): Strong demand kept airlines’ load factor above pre-Covid levels as seen in the recently concluded second quarter of 2024 (2Q2024), according to MIDF Research.</p>


Strong demand keeps airlines’ load factor above pre-Covid levels — MIDF

<p>Blue-chip companies are spending more money on US dollar bond interest payments, and even Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cuts this year won’t immediately reverse the trend.</p>


Companies’ interest costs to keep rising, even with rate cuts

<p>PUTRAJAYA (Sept 13): Civil servants will have an option period of 40 days&nbsp;from Oct 21 to Nov 30 this year&nbsp;to sign up for the new Public Service Remuneration System (SSPA), or remain under the Malaysian Remuneration System (SSM), before the new system takes effect on Dec 1, 2024.</p>


Dept: Civil servants have 40 days from Oct 21 to opt for new remuneration system

<p>Chinese appliance giant Midea Group Co&nbsp;raised US$4 billion (RM17.26 billion) in its Hong Kong listing, in an enlarged deal that was priced at the top of the marketed range, in a show of demand for the city’s biggest share sale in over three years.</p>
