Tan Ai Leng

Tan Ai Leng

MALAYSIA CORRESPONDENT

Tan Ai Leng is Malaysia correspondent at The Business Times, where her reporting encompasses a diverse array of subjects within the country. Her prior experience includes a role at The Edge Malaysia.

TRX is Kuala Lumpur’s premier onshore financial district, designed to cluster leading banks, technology innovators, professional services and top-tier talent.

TRX and Labuan IBFC join forces to boost Malaysia’s regional financial ambitions

2026-09-18T08:11:37.000Z
The MRO facility of Asia Digital Engineering in Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The company expects to reach 20 maintenance lines by end-2027.
INSIDE ASEAN: MALAYSIA

Malaysia’s aircraft servicing sector is taking off, but can it move up the value chain?

2026-09-17T23:00:00.000Z
With a data centre boom under way, semiconductor, tech and digital players are racing to get a piece of the growing AI pie.
INSIDE ASEAN: MALAYSIA

Beyond servers: Malaysia targets bigger share of AI economy

2026-09-16T23:00:00.000Z
Intel Malaysia's Penang facility. A multi-state semiconductor push is driving Malaysia's advanced packaging and IC design ambitions.
INSIDE ASEAN: MALAYSIA

As Malaysia’s chip goals morph into a multi-state model, are they outgrowing Penang?

2026-09-15T23:00:00.000Z
Loan applications and approvals in the sector hit record highs in July, reaching RM167.4 billion and RM90.4 billion, respectively, notes CGSI.

Malaysian banks post mixed mid-2026 results, record loan growth

2026-09-03T03:18:42.000Z
“I consider myself lucky. I don’t consider myself successful,” says Ng Yih Pyng, the second-generation leader of Tomei Consolidated.
BEHIND THE NAME

What’s luck got to do with it? Everything, says Malaysian jewellery king Tomei’s chief

2026-08-28T03:08:29.000Z
CIMB has been engaging with the Securities Commission Malaysia on the development of tokenised capital-market products.

Malaysia’s CIMB completes US$342.7 million tokenised sukuk pilot

2026-08-27T08:52:10.000Z
From Labuan to the purpose-built Tun Razak Exchange in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has deployed special rules, incentives and infrastructure to attract global financial activity.
THE FINANCIAL HUB RACE

Malaysia’s strongest card in multi-hub push could be Islamic finance

2026-08-26T23:00:00.000Z
Technology and construction stocks are poised to be key sector beneficiaries as Malaysia undertakes the FBM KLCI overhaul.

FBM KLCI to expand to 50 stocks as Malaysia cuts reliance on banking overweights

2026-08-21T06:40:22.000Z
Genting attributed the higher quarterly revenue to its plantation business, as well as leisure and hospitality operations in Singapore and Malaysia.

Malaysia’s Genting posts Q2 net loss despite 14% rise in revenue

2026-08-20T13:19:23.000Z