Category: Business

PETALING JAYA: Merchantrade Asia Sdn Bhd’s digital payroll solution surpassed RM3.6 billion in salary disbursements to foreign worker e-wallet accounts in 2024, highlighting the company’s continued leadership in digitising and transforming payroll processes while advancing financial inclusion for underserved communities. Maintaining this momentum, Merchantrade Asia is aiming to achieve an ambitious payroll volume target of…

PETALING JAYA: The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturing (FMM) has expressed its strong objection to the impending tariff increase at Port Klang, which was approved by the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and officially gazetted on Friday. The association said these cost increases come at a time when industries are already under immense pressure from global trade…

PETALING JAYA: The Asia-Pacific region stands at the heart of global aviation’s most dynamic growth, with airlines set to face both opportunities and complex challenges over the next two decades as they seek to connect rapidly expanding populations, serve new destinations and adapt to shifting market demands. According to Embraer’s Market Outlook for 2025, Asia-Pacific…

KUALA LUMPUR: Frozen food manufacturer Arisprop Capital Bhd is planning to introduce its Aris Burger brand to the Chinese market by 2027, as part of the company’s global expansion strategy. Its managing director, Datuk Haris Embong, said the company is currently focused on strengthening its domestic business foundations, including supply chain optimisation, product quality and…

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A good friend made politically-charged posters using AI and wants me to spread them on my social media. She works for herself in communications and is a very successful and vocal activist in her own right. I’m reluctant to post these posters, although the AI images are truly amazing. They look like they could be…

Quentin Fottrell Quentin Fottrell is MarketWatch’s Managing Editor-Advice Columns and The Moneyist columnist. You can follow him on Twitter @quantanamo. Adblock test (Why?)

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump stand together at the end of the U.S Army parade on June 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Thousands of troops descended on Washington, D.C., on Saturday, with tanks filling the streets and helicopters overhead, as President Donald Trump staged…

A manhunt is underway for a 57-year-old suspect in the early Saturday shootings that killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in what officials believe to be a “politically motivated assassination” of the Democrat. In a separate attack by the same suspect, Minnesota Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were shot in their…

A projectile hit buildings as Israeli Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept missiles over Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, June 13, 2025. Leo Correa | AP Photo The Iron Dome missile defense system, or “Kippat Barzel” in Hebrew, is widely regarded as one of the most important tools in Israel’s defensive arsenal. Designed to…