One thing stands out from the announcement of the first quarter results of the Employees Provident Fund; the retirement repository of over 12 million Malaysian workers which now manages some RM540 billion of funds and is one of the largest single retirement funds in the world.

China’s successful transformation from a middle-income country to a modern, high-income country will depend largely on the reforms that the government undertakes over the next decade

The Star Publications (M) Bhd, has defended its politically-slanted news reports and advertisements during the 13th GE to shareholders at its annual general meeting (AGM) and also denied talk of attempts to wrest the company away from its major shareholder, …

In early 2012, outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the global poverty rate relative to its 1990 level had been achieved in 2010 – five years ahead of schedule. But many analysts …

Syakh Akram Nadwi from Oxford Islamic Centre in Oxford, in his publication titled “General Framework for Discussion of Islamic Finance wrote “Yet, if using the word ‘Islamic’ before ‘finance’ is to mean anything at all, it should mean the kind …