Malaysia

Malaysia’s January CPI rises 1.6% y/y, matching forecast

[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 1.6 per cent in January from a year earlier, government data showed on Thursday.

Since 1974, the capital city has been administered by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall while led by a mayor appointed by the federal territories minister with the consent of the King.

Who should run KL? Study into local polls stirs fears over demographics

The debate reveals deeper fears over who controls urban centres and whether ethnic demographics should decide who runs a modern capital

IJM is seen as a prize catch amid a business tussle that has triggered graft claims and racial politics over Sunway's Jan 12 takeover bid.
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A RM11 billion takeover battle is testing Malay economic clout. Malaysia PM Anwar now holds all the cards

A Sunway-IJM merger would create a top 10 largest entity on the local bourse

The MACC was in two reports by Bloomberg News last week, which caused an outcry in the country, sparking protests in the capital and igniting a debate about abuse of power.

Malaysia’s king warns graft agency among those on his ‘radar’

‘Be careful, those in the Royal Malaysia Police, Immigration Department, Royal Malaysian Customs Department and many more,’ he says

Feb 15's protest is the second demonstration against Azam Baki since 2022.

Crowds of black-clad Malaysians protest against anti-graft chief

Event marks biggest street protest since rally in October to demand government act against Israel over its hostilities in Gaza

Azam Baki, chief commissioner of the MACC, owned 17.7 million shares of Velocity Capital Partner, an annual filing by the company to the Companies Commission of Malaysia said.

Malaysia’s Cabinet orders probe into anti-graft chief Azam

He says he is fully open to being investigated and has nothing to hide

The Malaysian government and central bank project the country's economic growth to come in at between 4 and 4.5% in 2026, amid persisting uncertainties about the impact of US tariffs.

Malaysia’s economy expands 5.2% in 2025, Q4 growth hits three-year high

Bank Negara expects stronger spending, exports and a firmer ringgit to lift growth momentum into 2026

The Johor facility will serve as DayOne's regional operations and capability-building base, designed to train more than 1,000 data-centre operations engineers.

DayOne sets up Johor training hub, expands KL shared services centre

The state, the company’s entry point into Malaysia, has since grown into its largest market in the Asia-Pacific

Johor has rejected up to 30% of new data-centre applications in 2025, industry guidance published this month indicated.

Johor data centres hit ‘time to power’ bottleneck

Approvals and grid delivery delays – not generation capacity – are determining which data centre projects move ahead on schedule 

Azam told Malaysia’s New Straits Times on Tuesday that the transaction had been properly declared and that he had nothing to hide.

Anwar pushed to suspend, investigate Malaysia’s anti-graft chief

The anti-graft chief owned 17.7 million shares of Velocity Capital Partner worth almost US$204,000