Reskilling scheme for 2,000 Malaysia Airlines staff

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) is offering upskilling and reskilling programme to more than 2,000 employees, mainly pilot, cabin crew and other front-line community employees.

WeWork competitor sees opportunity in Tokyo

TOKYO: A radical rethink of work culture that threatens to push Tokyo office vacancy rates to new heights has the largest Japanese shared workspace provider preparing for opportunity.

GDEX rejuvenates systems and processes

Parcel delivery company to maintain consistency of providing services without much disruption

Japan’s Seven & i to buy Marathon’s gas stations

BENGALURU: The Japanese owner of 7-Eleven convenience stores has agreed to buy Marathon Petroleum Corp’s Speedway gas stations for U&S$21bil, brushing aside coronavirus concerns to return to the table five months after initially baulking at the deal.

Loan demand seen recovering in second half

PETALING JAYA: Loan demand looks set to recover in the second half of 2020 on the back of the government’s Short-Term Economic Recovery plan (Penjana) and interest rate cuts that will improve homebuyers’ purchasing power.

Khazanah: Hard for MAS-AirAsia merger to work

Home work triggers demand jump for chips, laptops and network goods

SEOUL/TOKYO: With more employees working from home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, demand is surging for laptops and network peripherals as well as components along the supply chain such as chips, as companies rush to build virtual offices.

Firm looks for opportunities amidst uncertainties in the energy sector

THE oil glut of the last decade, which started in late 2014, had forced many oil and gas companies to relook their business strategies. This include the move to rationalise their then bloated manpower and operating expenses.

Happy employees work better

To achieve this goal, among others, GO Communications has decided to go against the norm and cut its working hours to spruce up productivity and work-life balance.

Rejuvenating Bursa Malaysia

THE top floor of Bursa Malaysia has been spruced up from how it was when Bursa Malaysia chairman Datuk Shireen Ann Zaharah Muhiudeen took office nearly a year ago.