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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia ended lower on Monday as investor sentiment weakened amid renewed concerns over geopolitical tensions and global economic growth, an analyst said.
GEORGE TOWN, Aug 17 (Bernama) -- Celestica Inc is set to expand its workforce in Malaysia by more than 2,100 employees as global demand for artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and cloud computing continues to accelerate.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia remained higher at midday, supported by buying interest in selected heavyweights, particularly in the telecommunications and media, utilities, and industrial products sectors.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 (Bernama) -- Malaysia’s stronger-than-expected second quarter (2Q) economic growth has prompted Public Investment Bank Bhd (PublicInvest) to raise its 2026 gross domestic product (GDP) forecast to 5.4 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) from 4.6 per cent.
By Nur Faradilla Mohamad
JOHOR BAHRU, Aug 16 (Bernama) -- Mamas M&M (M) Sdn Bhd, which offers a variety of sauces including chilli, tomato, oyster and black pepper sauces, as well as vinegar and soy sauce, aims to penetrate the Cambodian market by mid-next year, further expanding its export market.
GEORGE TOWN, Aug 16 (Bernama) -- Penang plans to shift from its current dominance in assembly and testing activities towards high-value upstream activities such as chip design, system architecture and prototype development, in a bid to become a leading semiconductor design hub in ASEAN by 2040.
By Fatin Umairah Abdul Hamid
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 (Bernama) -- Private healthcare provider IHH Healthcare Bhd. plans to nearly double its operational hospital beds in India to about 10,000 by 2031 from around 6,100 currently, with an estimated investment of about US$250,000 (US$1=RM4.08) per bed.
By Niam Seet Wei
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 (Bernama) -- A year ago, during my Wolfson Press Fellowship at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, I was grappling with a question I was not entirely sure I wanted to answer.
PETALING JAYA, Aug 15 (Bernama) -- The government will focus on efforts to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology, including exploring systems that can promote the wider use of AI tools, when tabling the 2027 Budget this October.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 (Bernama) -- Pos Malaysia Bhd trimmed its net loss to RM43.46 million in the second quarter ended June 30, 2026 (2Q FY2026), compared with RM45.41 million in the same quarter a year ago.
KUCHING, Aug 14 (Bernama) -- Sarawak is taking steps to strengthen its position in the biotechnology and healthcare sectors through a proposed RM50 million investment to develop the Sarawak Regenerative BioFoundry at the Sarawak Bio-Industrial Park.
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 (Bernama) -- Mercedes-Benz Malaysia is bringing its new Mercedes-Benz Operating System (MB.OS) to the Malaysian market through the all-new CLA 250+ electric, integrating artificial intelligence (AI) from Google and Microsoft into its latest Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX) infotainment system.
