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UK launches new £4.6 billion plan to help virus-hit firms

Finance Minister Rishi Sunak says more than 600,000 business properties would benefit from the new support

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Higher blending mandates will offset EU’s lower palm oil demand, says biodiesel association

Producers must face fact that palm oil exports likely to decline at accelerated pace, says Malaysian Biodiesel Association

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German unemployment stable in December

Country's seasonally adjusted jobless rate stood at 6.1% last month, the same as in November, after three months of falls

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Bursa bucks regional trends to end at intraday high

Index breaks 2-day losing streak on improved risk appetite in select heavyweights

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Govt sets up task force to ease container congestion at Port Klang 

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong says the problem surfaced in the third quarter of last year

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‘Malaysia likely to record 5.1% GDP growth this year’

Maybank IB chief economist Suhaimi Ilias says, however, he expects the job market to remain volatile

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Tokyo stocks close lower on Wall Street loss, virus fears

Market under selling pressure after Dow Jones index gives up 1.3% as traders watch US senate run-off elections in Georgia

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‘Malaysia needs to invest in, generate more value-added palm oil products’

Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry secretary-general Datuk Ravi Muthayah says traders cannot depend solely on palm oil as a commodity 

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Breaker podcasting platform team joins Twitter

Podcasting platform will shut down on January 15, allowing users time to move podcasts and subscriptions to new forums

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Poptron secures US$1 million to scale up its operations

Company says investment will be used to develop platform, expand its team and begin operations in Singapore 

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NYSE scraps plan to delist China telecom firms

Shares in China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom jump on the news

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Asian markets fall after virus, vote worries hit Wall St

Analysts still broadly upbeat about long-term outlook this year

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MIDF research lowers Top Glove target price to RM8.29

But company’s 20% special dividend surprises research house