• Corporate, Exclusive, Featured  |  MAY 24, 2013, 10:00 AM

    Sarku to bag RM1.5bil Pan Malaysian job

    by S.ASHWIINIE

    Sarku Resources Sdn Bhd a wholly owned unit of oil and gas giant SapuraKencana Petroleum Bhd (SAKP) is close to securing a RM1.5 billion hook up, construction and commissioning (HUCC) job from ExxonMobil, sources say

     
  • Exclusive

    New shareholder surfaces in TRIplc

     MAY 23, 2013, 6:32 PM by S.ASHWIINIE

    Privately held Minat Bakti Sdn Bhd has surfaced as a substantial shareholder in TRIplc Bhd, with four million shares or 6.25% equity interest in the c ...

     

    Perdana bags RM700 million job from Dayang

     MAY 23, 2013, 10:47 AM

    Perdana Petroleum Bhd is understood to have bagged a contract for six vessels valued at between RM600 million to RM700 million, from Dayang Enterprise ...

     
    Issues

    Guinness Anchor or Carlsberg?

     MAY 22, 2013, 10:00 PM by JOSE BARROCK AND S ASHWIINIE

    Guinness Anchor and Carlsberg are running neck to neck in Malaysia at the moment. KiniBiz looks at the challenges both brewers face in catering to a n ...

     

    The new man at the helm of Guinness Anchor

     MAY 21, 2013, 10:00 PM by JOSE BARROCK AND S ASHWIINIE

    Hans Essaadi, the Dutchman who has taken the helm of GAB talks about the need to engage the next generation of consumers and use social media to its a ...

     
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    Corporate

    Malaysia Airlines adds daytime service to Mumbai

     MAY 24, 2013, 5:52 PM

    Malaysia Airlines is increasing its frequency from Kuala Lumpur into Mumbai to 12 times weekly effective June 3 ...

     

    SEB to ensure sustainability in renewable energy projects

     MAY 24, 2013, 4:30 PM

    Sarawak Energy Bhd (SEB) will continue to embed the sustainability work process for Sarawak’s renewable energy projects to ensure a balance environm ...

     

    M’sia is ‘preferred destinations’ of Muslim travellers

     MAY 24, 2013, 4:11 PM

    Malaysia has been named, along with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as one of the “preferred destinations” of Muslim travellers, accord ...

     

    Vincent Tan plans IPO of football club Cardiff City

     MAY 24, 2013, 11:48 AM

    Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan is exploring an IPO of UK football team Cardiff City as early as this year, people with knowledge of the matter told ...

     

    YTL Corp 3Q pre-tax profit falls to RM541.37mil

     MAY 23, 2013, 9:40 PM

    YTL Corporation Bhd's pre-tax profit fell to RM541.37 million for the third quarter ended March 31, 2013 from RM694.37 million recorded in the same pe ...

     

    UMW posts lower pre-tax profit in 1Q

     MAY 23, 2013, 9:29 PM

    UMW Holdings Bhd's pre-tax profit for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 slipped 0.9% to RM432.7 million from RM436.7 million in the same period l ...

     

    MRCB 1Q pre-tax profit falls to RM5.1mil

     MAY 23, 2013, 9:25 PM

    Malaysian Resources Corporation Bhd's (MRCB) pre-tax profit fell to RM5.1 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 from RM35.6 million in th ...

     

    IHHH 1Q pre-tax profit falls to RM213.588mil

     MAY 23, 2013, 9:16 PM

    IHH Healthcare Bhd's pre-tax profit declined to RM213.588 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 from RM218.248 million recorded in the sa ...

     
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    World Biz

    Mitsubishi Motors plans to reorganize capital

     MAY 24, 2013, 6:44 PM

    Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plans to reorganize its capital to help unload the worst accumulated losses in the automotive industry ...

     

    BP, Shell, Statoil face lawsuit after EU oil price probe

     MAY 24, 2013, 6:28 PM by BRIAN SWINT

    The three oil producers under investigation by the European Commission for manipulating oil prices are being sued in a class-action lawsuit in the U.S ...

     

    Apple’s tax magic leaves Irish bondholders unmoved

     MAY 24, 2013, 6:04 PM by DARA DOYLE

    As Ireland’s leaders try to limit the fallout from the tax crossfire between Apple Inc. and U.S. politicians, bond markets suggest they don’t have ...

     

    Kmart ceased production at Bangladesh factory

     MAY 24, 2013, 3:51 PM

    Kmart, the Australian discount department-store unit of Wesfarmers Ltd., said it ceased production earlier this month at a Bangladesh clothing factory ...

     

    Sony seeks to raise 150bil yen in first retail bond

     MAY 24, 2013, 2:36 PM

    Sony Corp., the maker of Bravia televisions, is seeking to raise 150 billion yen (US$1.5 billion) in its first sale of bonds targeting individual inve ...

     

    Target, Macy’s sue MasterCard, Visa over card swipe fees

     MAY 24, 2013, 12:48 PM by CHRISTIE SMYTHE

    Target Corp. and Macy’s Inc. joined with 15 other retailers in suing Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. over credit-card and debit-card fees after droppi ...

     
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    Finance

    Europe needs a more European UK, says Draghi

     MAY 24, 2013, 6:45 AM by D.MILLIKEN, M.JONES

    LONDON – The eurozone is more stable than a year ago but economic conditions remain challenging and governments must push on with reforms and ba ...

     

    Ringgit closes lower on weak buying interest

     MAY 23, 2013, 6:01 PM

    The ringgit closed sharply lower against the US dollar today on weak buying interest for the local note, a dealer said. ...

     
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    Economy

    Warning signs for China, Fed hints at curbing stimulus

     MAY 23, 2013, 8:35 PM

    Chinese factory activity shrank in May for the first time in seven months, overshadowing signs that the euro zone's downturn tempered slightly in Ma ...

     

    UK economy grows 0.3% on consumer spending

     MAY 23, 2013, 6:51 PM

    Britain’s economy resumed growth in the first quarter as companies built up stocks and consumer spending increased, offsetting a drop in exports. ...

     
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    Opinion

    Is EPF speculating with members’ money?

     MAY 23, 2013, 5:48 PM by P.GUNASEGARAM

    One thing stands out from the announcement of the first quarter results of the Employees Provident Fund; the retirement repository of over 12 million ...

     

    China grapples with interest rate challenge

     MAY 23, 2013, 3:54 PM by PINGFAN HONG

    China’s successful transformation from a middle-income country to a modern, high-income country will depend largely on the reforms that the governme ...

     

    Swaps vote another big win for big banks

     MAY 22, 2013, 11:17 AM by WILLIAM D COHAN

    Click on the section of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission website about the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform law and the first thing that jumps ...

     

    Japan Inc should take a look in the mirror

     MAY 21, 2013, 11:41 AM by WILLIAM PESEK

    Sony Corp’s curt dismissal of a foreigner’s advice last week didn’t shock Michael Woodford, the former chief executive officer of Olympus Corp. ...

     

    The mismeasure of the prevalence of poverty

     MAY 21, 2013, 10:35 AM by JOMO KWAME SUNDARAM

    In early 2012, outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the global poverty rate relativ ...

     

    Moving Islamic Finance from conference rooms to humanity

     MAY 20, 2013, 12:11 PM

    Syakh Akram Nadwi from Oxford Islamic Centre in Oxford, in his publication titled “General Framework for Discussion of Islamic Finance wrote “Yet, ...

     

    Open-Access Economics

     MAY 20, 2013, 10:35 AM by BARRY EICHENGREEN

    CANBERRA – The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart’s and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and inc ...

     

    10 things Anwar must do

     MAY 17, 2013, 8:44 PM

    By now the Cabinet has been appointed and while there are fresh faces, no one I have spoken to expects any drastic changes from the norm especially as ...

     
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    Commodities

    BP, Shell, Statoil face lawsuit after EU oil price probe

     MAY 24, 2013, 6:28 PM by BRIAN SWINT

    The three oil producers under investigation by the European Commission for manipulating oil prices are being sued in a class-action lawsuit in the U.S ...

     

    Gold heads for best week in a month

     MAY 24, 2013, 2:45 PM by PHOEBE SEDGMAN

    Gold swung between gains and losses as investors weighed speculation the Federal Reserve will maintain its record stimulus against a continuing declin ...

     

    Rubber rebounds, paring weekly loss

     MAY 24, 2013, 12:37 PM by AYA TAKADA

    Rubber rebounded from the biggest drop in a month as Japan’s currency resumed a decline against the dollar, raising the appeal of yen-denominated fu ...

     
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    Markets

    European stocks decline for second day

     MAY 24, 2013, 6:17 PM by SOFIA HORTA E COSTA

    European stocks declined for a second day, after the Stoxx Europe 600 Index yesterday dropped the most in 10 months, as investors awaited data on U.S. ...

     

    Asia stocks decline on Australia banks

     MAY 24, 2013, 5:01 PM

    Asian stocks declined, extending losses from the biggest decline in a year and a half, as Australian banks fell. Japan shares rose on a volatile day o ...

     

    US stocks update

     MAY 24, 2013, 5:57 AM by ANGELA MOON

    NEW YORK – US stocks slipped on Thursday but finished sharply off their session lows as a rally in Hewlett-Packard’s shares offset worries ...

     
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    Launches

    Sunway Iskandar phase 1 to launch by early 2014

     MAY 23, 2013, 11:07 AM

    Sunway Bhd is expecting to launch the first phase of its Sunway Iskandar development project by early next year, says its CFO Chong Chang Choong. ...

     

    Yes launches world’s first Samsung 4G Chromebook

     MAY 22, 2013, 3:38 PM

    YTL Corporation’s Yes launched the world’s first Samsung 4G Chromebook today. The device, exclusive to Yes, heralds the next generation of compute ...

     
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    Events

    S’pore to host 4th World Islamic Banking Conference

     MAY 20, 2013, 5:34 PM

    More than 480 leading industry players, thought leaders and key regulators in the international and regional Islamic finance industry will be gatherin ...

     

    Sarawak a new hub for investment and business

     MAY 20, 2013, 3:32 PM

    Inside Investor Ltd in a statement said Sarawak is the latest destination for investment and business. On June 12, the business consulting firm will h ...

     
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