KUALA LUMPUR: Farm Price Holdings Bhd, which is scheduled for a listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Securities on May 14, has seen its initial public offering (IPO) oversubscribed by 91.35 times. The Johor-based wholesaler and distributor of fresh vegetables, food and beverage (F&B) products and other groceries said …

PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court here has dismissed the appeal of a 37-year-old woman who was converted to Islam when she was a child. In a majority 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel chaired by Court of Appeal president Justice Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim reaffirmed her conversion. Other judges on the panel …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen was upset not to be offered a top job in Trump’s administration after the Republican businessman-turned-politician won the 2016 presidential election, according to testimony at Trump’s criminal hush money trial. Thursday’s testimony by lawyer Keith Davidson could prove relevant during …

(Reuters) – For most of the past year and a half, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook has fielded questions from Wall Street analysts about his plans for artificial intelligence amid grumbling that the iPhone maker has no AI story to tell. After the company reported quarterly earnings on Thursday, Cook …

KLANG: Datuk Seri M. Saravanan did not mince his words when he voiced his disdain for the unity government for overlooking his party. Speaking at a ceramah at Kuala Kubu Baharu on Tuesday (April 30) night, the MIC deputy president said although MIC and its counterpart MCA had supported the …

KUALA LUMPUR: Only 253,794 women out of some three million housewives in the country have registered for the Housewives Social Security Scheme (SKSSR) as of April 21 this year, says the Social Security Organisation (Socso). Among them, Orang Asli in the peninsula and Chinese were the fewest who signed up …

KUALA LUMPUR: Ocean Fresh Bhd has signed an underwriting agreement with KAF Investment Bank Bhd (KAF IB) for its initial public offering (IPO) in conjunction with its listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd. Ocean Fresh is principally involved in the processing and trading of frozen seafood …

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam: Dam Chan Nguyen saves dead and dying computers. When he first started working two decades ago in Nhat Tao market, Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest informal recycling market, he usually salvaged computers with bulky monitors and heavy processors. Now he works mostly with laptops and …

GOLD prices were poised for a second straight weekly decline, although bullion held nearly steady on Friday as investors remained cautious ahead of the U.S. non-farm payrolls data that could provide cues on the Federal Reserve’s rate cut timeline. Spot gold held its ground at $2,299.49 per ounce, as of …

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Leaders of a militia in Ethiopia’s Amhara region accused the administration in neighbouring Tigray of “beating a war drum” over plans to return hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans to territories Amhara fighters captured during a civil war. The future of the disputed territories in northern Ethiopia has …