13 Southeast Asian Startups Received Accolades at the ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards
The ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards (Rice Bowl) has returned for another year of celebrating excellent startups within the ASEAN region. 13 leading ASEAN startups were named category winners at the 5th ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards...
IDEAS: ASEAN needs a stronger commitment to integration to address challenges in turbulent times
IDEAS has published its second annual ASEAN Integration Report, which assesses progress towards the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2025. The report was launched at the second annual ASEAN Prosperity Forum hosted by IDEAS. The AEC...
Malaysian youths are confident about the state of their country’s politics, especially their place in the ecosystem. According to insights gathered from the 2019 ASEAN Youth Survey by REDHILL, 77% of respondents believe that the youth voice is crucial while 84% are looking forward to going to the polls...
Singapore moved up one notch to be the fourth amongst 129 countries in the International Property Rights Index (IPRI) 2019 report. The Republic now sits alongside strong IP powerhouses such as Finland, Switzerland and New Zealand. Singapore continues to retain its top spot in Asia.
The index, which ranked 129...
RHB Bank in partnership with SME Corporation Malaysia and the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development organised The Future SME Conference 2019 themed Engineering The Future recently, to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the country embrace technology and innovation.
The conference is aimed at providing insights on techniques and solutions to...
Bank Negara Malaysia has reduced the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) by 25 basis points to 2.50%. A statement from the Central Bank said the ceiling and floor rates of the corridor of the OPR are correspondingly reduced to 2.75% and 2.25%, respectively.
“The reduction in the OPR is intended to...
Bank Negara has forecast Malaysia’s economy will contract as much as 2% on the weight of the loss in productivity and disruption in the global supply chain due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At the best-case scenario, assuming the situation is brought under control and economic activities return to normalcy...
Japan has launched a program called the Subsidy Program for Sustaining Businesses to help small and medium enterprises in the country. The Program is targeted at SMEs that had suffered a decline in monthly sales of 50 per cent or more, compared to last year. Companies with capital less...
All secondary schools in Malaysia, which closed mid-March due to the movement control order (RMCO), can resume operations for certain students starting June 24. Education Minister Dr Mohd Radzi Md Jidin said that students who are candidates of public exams, as well as international exams of the same standard,...
Demand for international travel to sink 80 per cent this year as coronavirus pandemic crushes tourism, says Euromonitor
Demand for international travel could fall by as much as 80 per cent this year, and recovery to pre-crisis levels could be stretched into 2023 if the global economy sinks further amid...
All government services will remain operational throughout the implementation of the conditional movement control order (CMCO) in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya from October 14 to 27. Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali said civil servants would adapt to a rotation system and work from...
The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today concluded its annual Industry Dialogue 2020, which involved 60 industry leaders from various market segments in the capital market engaging on key challenges and risks in the current environment as well as the opportunities for the future of the Malaysian capital market. Participants...
