Malaysia

Belgium's insurer Ageas has completed the sale of its 30.95 percent stake in Maybank Ageas Holdings, the Malaysian parent of insurer Etiqa, to its partner Maybank for about €1.1B billion ($1.3 billion), ending a 25-year joint venture.

Japan's Mitsui & Co. will collaborate with Singapore's Oncoshot to use the firm's AI platform for analyzing cancer-clinical data, aiming to expand oncology research across the hospital network of Malaysia's IHH Healthcare.

At ArchiBoost AI in San Francisco, Malaysian founding engineer Yi Sien "Ian" Ku is helping the team confront that trust gap across building design and construction, where the consequences of a faulty conclusion can extend beyond a screen and into a physical building.

Malaysia ranked second in Southeast Asia, behind Singapore, in ASEAN Digital Nations Index, an annual digital-development index published by the mobile-industry body GSMA.

Malaysia is targeting as much as MYR20 billion ($4.7 billion) a year in additional economic output from artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030 and wants to shift from building data centres to applying AI across its economy.

Zeekr Malaysia, the local arm of China's Zeekr, and SkyPark FBO Malaysia will use the Zeekr 009 luxury electric van for airside passenger transfers at a business-aviation center in Subang, near Kuala Lumpur.

Analysts have maintained its overweight stance on the Malaysian technology sector, underpinned by the broadening semiconductor upcycle and sustained earnings momentum.

Malaysia’s data centers reached a record 9.3 percent share of Peninsular electricity use in mid-August as hot weather increased cooling demand.

The Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) and Dagang NeXchange Berhad (DNeX) have formalized a strategic collaboration through the signing of a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) to strengthen trade facilitation and accelerate the adoption of digital trade solutions among Malaysian businesses, particularly small and medium enterprises…

MarinEV, the marine electrification business of Yinson GreenTech, has marked another milestone in the commercial adoption of electric harbour craft in Singapore, securing a one-year bareboat charter with HHH Marine & Logistics (HHH Marine) for Hydromover 1.0, marking its second Hydromover commercial charter in Singapore.