Category: Business

Curse of perverse incentives

THE Auditor General’s Report 2025 Series 2 highlighted weaknesses in the implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the subsidised cooking oil scheme, which involved expenditure of

Non-oil exports climb 7.1% in second quarter

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose 7.1 per cent year-on-year in 2Q 2025, extending the 3.3 per cent gain in 1Q, Enterprise Singapore (EnterpriseSG)

Celebrating women who lead

KUCHING: AFFIN Group is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide initiative to honour 50 of Malaysia’s most inspiring women leaders. Through its premier banking

Gold bars retain free-trade status

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Monday that gold imports will not face additional tariffs, days after confusion flared on whether recent hikes applied to

Monthly sign-ups top 50,000

KUALA LUMPUR: Robust demand for gold is expected to raise Public Gold Marketing Sdn Bhd’s customer base to 2.3 million by the end of the

Natural rubber production up 5.9% in June 2025

KUALA LUMPUR Natural rubber (NR) production increased by 5.9 per cent to 25,679 tonnes in June 2025 versus 24,256 tonnes in May 2025, according to the Statistics Department Malaysia