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By Mohamad Syazwan Mustafa
JOHOR BAHRU, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- The use of small retail spaces, cashless payment systems, and closed-circuit television (CCTV) monitoring is enabling micro-entrepreneurs to explore the unmanned store concept as a strategy to lower operating costs.
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From Harlina Samson
SHANGHAI, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is positioning Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) at the centre of its industrial policy, making it a key instrument of economic transformation to build a highly skilled and well-paid workforce.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- YTL AI Labs Sdn Bhd, the artificial intelligence solutions arm of YTL Power International Bhd under the YTL Group, today announced Nemotron-Personas-Malaysia, an open dataset developed with NVIDIA to represent Malaysia’s population diversity through 1.35 million synthetic personas.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- Bursa Malaysia opened lower on Wednesday as investors took profits in selected heavyweights, paring recent gains amid ongoing United States-Iran talks.
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From Harlina Samson
SHANGHAI, Sept 23 (Bernama) – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is scheduled to hold a roundtable business engagement and deliver a keynote address at the WorldSkills Conference 2026 here today.
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From Harlina Samson
SHANGHAI, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- The strategic synergy between Bank Rakyat and Chinese technology giants, Alibaba Cloud and Lenovo, has opened up greater opportunities for the sharing of technology, expertise and experience in efforts to strengthen digital capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) and financial technology (fintech).
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- A majority, or 56 per cent, of chief economists surveyed expected the global economic outlook to remain stable or improve, a sharp improvement from May, when 89 per cent projected conditions to weaken, said the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its latest Chief Economists’ Outlook - September 2026.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- Project Management Institute (PMI), a global authority in project management, announced that President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Pierre Le Manh, will step down from his role effective Sept 30, with Chief Growth Officer, Johannes Heinlein appointed interim President and CEO from the same date.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- Venionaire Capital AG, an independent investment and corporate finance firm, has appointed Lukas Naujack as Associate Partner, strengthening its cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and strategic advisory capabilities in Southeast Asia.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- Yeahka Limited, a payment-based technology platform, announced that its international payment business, YeahPay, is working with Stripe to expand merchant services to seven markets.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian public portion of GB Bond Holdings Bhd’s initial public offering (IPO) has been oversubscribed by 8.22 times, ahead of its listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia on Oct 1, 2026.
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By Anas Abu Hassan
SINGAPORE, Sept 22 (Bernama) -- Singapore’s financial conditions have been broadly supportive despite a mixed global backdrop, supported by easing borrowing costs, tighter credit spreads and a pickup in bank credit growth, according to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).