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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- The 8th Asian Captive Conference (ACC) 2026 will focus on the role of captive insurance in helping organisations manage emerging and increasingly complex risks amid a volatile global environment.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) – Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) is continuing its efforts to obtain the remaining arbitration award from Saudi Arabia-based property developer and project management company Al-Rawda Real Estates Development & Project Management Co Ltd, including through asset tracing, after the company only paid 14.9 million Saudi riyal (one Saudi riyal = RM1.09) out of the 899 million Saudi riyal awarded.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) had issued five warning letters to the Tabung Haji (TH) chairman and the Minister of Religious Affairs regarding the gap between TH's assets and liabilities.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- The simplified dual initial public offering (IPO) listing framework between Malaysia and Hong Kong will take effect next month, further strengthening capital market linkages between the two economies.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- Mavenir has appointed Jitin Bhandari as Executive Vice President (EVP), NeoCloud Platform and Forward Deployment Engineering.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- A total of 42 companies have been successfully awarded projects under the 2026 Feed-in Tariff (FiT) mechanism, with the projects expected to catalyse approximately RM4.3 billion in total investments.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- The National Energy Efficiency Policy and Action Plan 2026–2035 (NEEAP 2.0) aims to deliver RM85.24 billion in utility savings, reduce national energy demand by 11.6 per cent, and achieve cumulative energy savings of 815,383 terajoules (TJ) by 2035.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- The government rescued Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH) through a bailout exceeding RM10 billion due to mismanagement and embezzlement, to restore its financial position and not to take over the institution's assets, the Dewan Rakyat was informed today.
By Anas Abu Hassan
SINGAPORE, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) has raised Singapore's 2026 gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast to between 4.5 and 5.5 per cent, raising it from an earlier projection of 2.0-4.0 per cent.
By Harizah Hanim Mohamed
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- Businesses and the public have a vital role in supporting Malaysia’s energy security, which has become increasingly important, as global geopolitical tensions continue to disrupt the energy landscape.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- The government risked assuming liabilities of about RM74.5 billion if a massive panic withdrawal, or “bank run”, had occurred in 2018, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Religious Affairs) Dr Zulkifli Hasan.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 11 (Bernama) -- Space42, a United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered SpaceTech company, and South Korea’s Autonomous A2Z (A2Z) have signed a US$7 million commercial agreement to deploy Level-4 autonomous mobility solutions in the UAE. (US$1=RM4.09)
