<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p data-qa-component="item-headline" data-rc-highlight="headline">BENGALURU (Oct 26): Tata Communications, which offers data connections and cybersecurity to enterprises, announced investments of close to US$450 million on Monday to build high-speed network cables connecting India’s AI data-centre corridors.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The company will build around 10,000 kilometres of new long-haul fiber cables across India.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The project will connect cloud services firms, global capability centres and other organisations such as banks to data-centre clusters.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Expansion will be in three phases: Mumbai-Pune-Hyderabad-Chennai corridor, the east coast and western India data-centre ecosystems, including Vizag, Bhubaneswar, Jamnagar and GIFT City.</p></div>

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BENGALURU (Oct 26): Tata Communications, which offers data connections and cybersecurity to enterprises, announced investments of close to US$450 million on Monday to build high-speed network cables connecting India’s AI data-centre corridors.

India's Tata Communications to spend US$450 mil on AI connectivity infrastructure

Anthropic PBC filed for an initial public offering (IPO), warning its technology carried existential risks even as it moved a step closer to being the first company focused primarily on developing the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to go public.

Anthropic flags ‘existential risks’ in long-awaited IPO filing

Oil prices fell on Monday after surging last week amid hopes of easing hostilities between the US and Iran, but persistent attacks on key producer Saudi Arabia kept investors wary and prices near six-month highs.

Oil slips but stays near six-month highs on Saudi attacks

Chinese-owned online retailer Temu has vowed to better tackle the sale of illegal products, the EU said on Monday, following a €200 million (RM914.82 million) fine in May.

EU says Temu vows to tackle sale of illegal items

Gold prices rose on Monday, rebounding from the previous session's over three-month low, as retreating oil prices tempered inflation concerns ahead of this week's US Federal Reserve (Fed) meeting.

Gold rises as lower oil prices ease inflation fears ahead of Fed meeting

EQT Corp agreed to buy Range Resources Corp in an all-stock deal for about US$12.8 billion (RM52.26 billion), creating what it says will be the largest and only vertically integrated US natural gas producer.

EQT to buy Range Resources, creating largest US gas producer

SpaceX signed a roughly US$40 billion (RM163 billion) equipment-finance lease with Apollo Global Management Inc to pay for the chips needed to fuel its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions.

SpaceX agrees to US$40 bil chip-financing deal with Apollo

The Armed Forces Fund Board (LTAT) has sold a parcel of leasehold land in Ampang Hilir to the United States government for RM420 million through a tender process, Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin told the Dewan Rakyat on Monday.

Khaled: LTAT sold Ampang Hilir leasehold land to US for RM420m

The Bandar Madani Bukit Jalil township project will be developed in phases over 15 years to ensure that each stage is aligned with infrastructure readiness and road capacity, said Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming.

Bandar Madani Bukit Jalil to be developed in phases over 15 years, says Nga

Brazilian right-wing Senator Flavio Bolsonaro has followed his imprisoned father's lead by refusing to concede defeat to leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won a historic fourth term in Sunday's presidential election.

Brazil's Lula wins fourth term as right-wing Bolsonaro refuses to accept election defeat

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he wants the UK to rejoin the European Union (EU) during his lifetime, calling for an “honest” discussion about the impact of Brexit.

PM Burnham says he wants UK to rejoin EU in his lifetime

<p>Datuk Mahadev Shankar, a member of the royal inquiry into Malaysia’s judge-fixing scandal, has passed away over the weekend. He was 94.</p>


Mahadev Shankar, member of royal inquiry into Anwar black-eye and VK Lingam scandal, passes away

<p>BUKIT MERTAJAM (Oct 26): The Magistrates' Court was told on Monday that the prosecution has rejected a representation by Umno Youth chief Datuk Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh seeking to drop his charge of causing alarm to public safety through his social media account last year.</p>


Prosecution rejects Akmal Saleh's representation to drop public alarm charge

<p>MyDCD Bhd has launched its ACE Market listing that will raise RM268.8 million for the engineering services firm and its shareholders.</p>


Engineering services firm MyDCD launches ACE Market IPO at 56 sen per share

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<p>•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;IJM is likely to secure a RM500 million contract for the construction of a data centre for K2 Strategic Infrastructure ...

IJM said to have bagged K2 data centre construction job

<p>Jio Platforms Ltd raised a record amount of funds for billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s digital and telecommunications giant but it proved to be far less lucrative for the bankers handling the deal.</p>


Jio’s record India IPO falls short of record payday for bankers

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 26): Public Investment Bank Bhd has assigned a fair value of 70 sen on SKA Capital Bhd, which translates into a 63% premium over its initial public offering (IPO) price of 43 sen.</p>


PublicInvest values ACE Market-bound SKA Capital at 70 sen, 63% premium over IPO price

<p>Matang Bhd (KL:MATANG) has suspended its chief financial officer and acting chief operating officer Tan Theng Hwee pending an internal investigation into governance, operational and management conduct matters.</p>


Matang suspends CFO, acting COO Tan Theng Hwee amid internal probe

<p>GDB Holdings Bhd (KL:GDB) has secured its largest job to date, a RM1.02 billion construction contract for a luxury residential development in Desa ParkCity, Kuala Lumpur.</p>


GDB lands biggest job to date with RM1.02 bil construction contract at Desa ParkCity

<p>TODAY, Malaysia mourns the loss of Datuk Mahadev Shankar, one of its most distinguished jurists: a formidable advocate, an independent-minded judge and a man whose extraordinary intellect, integrity and commitment to public service left an indelible mark on the nation’s legal landscape.</p>


Obituary: Mahadev Shankar: A life devoted to the law, justice and the nation

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 26): Subang, Ipoh and Penang airports recorded year-on-year (y-o-y) growth in international passenger traffic in September 2026, despite a decline in overall passenger movements across Malaysia Airports' local network.</p>


Subang, Ipoh, Penang airports see international passenger growth in September despite national decline

<p>SINGAPORE (Oct 26): Malaysia will deepen its partnership with Singapore and work with neighbours to realise regional power connectivity, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof.</p>


Malaysia seeks greater energy ties with Singapore as it makes a push for Asean grid — Fadillah

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<p>•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Elevated crude oil prices following the Strait of Hormuz disruption have renewed interest in Malaysian oil and gas stoc...

Which Malaysian O&G stocks stand to gain from higher-for-longer oil prices?

<p>The Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency (AKPS) has developed hologram technology to be deployed at the satellite building of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) Terminal 1, to&nbsp;assist&nbsp;travellers in obtaining information regarding arrival procedures in the country.</p>


Border control agency introduces hologram at KLIA T1 to help travellers obtain arrival information

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 26): The Ministry of Housing and Local Government (KPKT), through PLANMalaysia and in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Motac), state governments and local authorities, is drafting STRA planning guidelines to serve as a uniform source of authority.</p>


Housing Ministry moves to standardise short-term rental accommodation rules nationwide

<p>Tan Sri Tan Kean Soon, who was recently charged with cheating a businessman of more than RM10 million, has disposed of his entire direct stake of 74.18 million shares in T7 Global Bhd (KL:T7GLOBAL), with his wife, Puan Sri Shirley Law Siong Hiong, acquiring the same number of shares.</p>


Tan Kean Soon sells 74.18 mil T7 Global shares to wife in RM8.53 mil deal

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 26): Press Metal Aluminium Holdings Bhd (KL:PMETAL) is expected to see softer smelting margins in the second half of 2026 as aluminium supply crunch eases, said Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB) Research.</p>


Press Metal faces softer 2H smelting margins as aluminium supply crunch eases — HLIB Research

<p>KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 26): The government on Monday pledged to publicly release a report by a special task force probing the “corporate mafia” allegations.&nbsp;</p>


Govt pledges to make ‘corporate mafia’ task force report public

<p>ACE Market-bound SKA Capital Bhd has secured six subcontracts worth a combined RM89.28 million for electrical infrastructure works related to projects Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) (KL:TENAGA), ahead of its ACE Market listing on Nov 11.</p>


ACE Market-bound SKA Capital bags six TNB-linked jobs worth RM89.3 mil

<p>Maxis Bhd (KL:MAXIS) is expected to get a small boost to its fibre business, which has seen little growth in recent quarters, analysts said on Monday.</p>


Maxis to get small boost to fibre business after flat quarters, analysts say

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<p>•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;At least three bidders for Dongfeng’s distribution of EV cars in Malaysia</p>

<p>•&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Current distrib...