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Malaysian customs had denied entry to a lorry carrying a container believed to be owned by Israeli shipping giant Zim as it attempted to cross the border from Thailand, Malaysia’s state newswire Bernama said on Wednesday.
China has now been Malaysia’s top trading partner for the past 15 years in a row – a reminder of the Asian giant’s dramatic economic ascent since the two countries established formal relations on May 31, 1974.
Anwar said Malaysia aimed to secure at least 500 billion ringgit (US$106 billion) in fresh semiconductor investments under a new National Semiconductor Strategy (NSS).
They bootstrapped their way through, helped by a one-off contract to convert parts of a training module into a game format for staff of a local shipping firm, but Lim said it was not an experience she wanted to repeat.
But the opposition and civil society groups say Anwar and his administration had failed to back up tough words with actions, after a consortium that includes UK-based Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) – bought by BlackRock in January – announced on May 15 a voluntary offer to acquire all shares of Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB).
Malaysia’s car market saw a bumper 2023 with total sales surging nearly 11 per cent annually. EVs, however, accounted for just 10,159 units, barely more than 1 per cent of the nearly 800,000 new vehicles that hit the road last year, according to data from the Malaysian Automotive Association (MAA).
Friday’s attack, which occurred before dawn in the Ulu Tiram district around 30 minutes from the causeway to Singapore, involved a lone attacker who may have had links to the JI network in Johor state, according to police chief Razarudin Husain.
About half of Malaysia’s over 30,000 telecommunications towers are concentrated in just four of the country’s 13 states — Selangor and Penang, the country’s two most industrialised states, along with Negeri Sembilan and Perak — along the peninsula’s west coast, EdgePoint CEO Suresh Sidhu told This Week in Asia.