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Insight
High hopes as dividend is nigh
The Employees Provident Fund's (EPF) over 16.5 million contributors must be waiting with high hopes for the announcement of the dividend rate for 2025.
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Insight
Broadening Malaysia’s trade
Malaysia has enjoyed strong economic growth of above 5% for two consecutive years – an impressive rate for a maturing emerging market economy.
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Star Biz7
Jinhua – a trading hub without borders
In Jinhua, an inland prefecture-level city in East China's Zhejiang province, traders like to say the air smells of orders.
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Star Biz7
Dubai luxe property keeps booming
Shahab Lutfi just sold a Dubai penthouse for more than US$100mil, and he's betting that the boom in the city's ultra-luxury property market will continue.
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Star Biz7
Chow Tai Fook courts the young
China's largest jewellery retailer, Chow Tai Fook, which competes with Tiffany and Cartier and is in the middle of its biggest makeover in decades, is introducing new products and store formats as it moves into overseas markets.
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Star Biz7
Singapore’s financial sector a big winner
Liquidity will lead the charge in Singapore's equity market.
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Star Biz7
From the ashes of Fluff comes Big Mouth
The announcement came as a shock to its fans. Fluff, a halal bakery famous for its cupcakes, announced in August 2025 that it was closing after almost 12 years.
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Insight
Hire for the mission
Senior recruitment fails more often than most boards admit. Not because candidates aren't talented, but because hiring starts from the wrong place.
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Star Biz7
Asia bonds for diversification
Three forces are reshaping Asia's bond markets, as Allianz Global Investors (GI) sees it.
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Insight
AI in the layman’s eye
The subject of artificial intelligence (AI) has become so dominant that the World Economic Forum in Davos recently reputedly devoted 200 sessions for corporate leaders to discuss AI from multiple angles.
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Insight
Towards work-life mastery
Dear captains, In recent years, few workplace ideas have been discussed as frequently and as loosely as work–life balance. It is often raised with good intentions, defended passionately, and yet applied inconsistently.
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Star Biz7
US LNG exporters lead in gas use
US exporters of liquified natural gas (LNG) consumed more natural gas than both households and commercial businesses last year, tightening US gas supplies and putting the LNG export boom squarely in the frame of discussions surrounding rising US energy costs.
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Star Biz7
AI disruption fears rock markets
The stock market turmoil unleashed by the artificial intelligence (AI) industry reflects two fears that are increasingly at odds.
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Star Biz7
Private equity hits a sixer
Global private equity (PE) investors like KKR and Blackstone have a new investment hotspot in India: cricket.
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Insight
Finding equity value beyond the obvious
While 2026 has got off to a rocky start geopolitically, many global equity investors are still struggling to find bargains.
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Star Biz7
Watts from water
Nestled amid oil palm estates in Bestari Jaya, Kuala Selangor, a vast former tin mining pond is being transformed into one of South-East Asia's largest floating solar facilities.
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Insight
Fair play with taxes
Governments are increasingly taxing the rich. This strategy is often used to garner support, particularly among younger demographics.
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Insight
Handling non-public info properly
The issue of disseminating non-public information via investment analysts' reports – whether in written format, electronically, on social networks like WhatsApp, or even within Telegram chat groups – has recently come to the forefront.
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Insight
The EV CKD conundrum
It is good that the government wants to grow Malaysia's electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing capability. But in aiming to achieve this, should it include protectionist measures?
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Short Position
Up in Arms - or up the value chain?
Questions about the government's US$250mil deal with Arm Holdings are puzzling.
