<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>（吉隆坡7日讯）Advance Synergy Bhd表示将以873万英镑（4663万7000令吉）脱售持股40%子公司Helenium Holdings Ltd的间接股权后，今早交投活络中攀升6.25%。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>截至9时42分，该股起1仙，挂17仙，达1201万7300股易手。</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Helenium拥有伦敦Kilburn High Road的永久综合用途产业。拟议的出售将让该集团获得现金，且可用于任何高潜能投资或收购。</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>这项脱售计划预计将为该集团带来238万令吉的收益。</p></div>

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<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>（编译：陈慧珊）</p></div>


（吉隆坡7日讯）Advance Synergy Bhd表示将以873万英镑（4663万7000令吉）脱售持股40%子公司Helenium Holdings Ltd的间接股权后，今早交投活络中攀升6.25%。

截至9时42分，该股起1仙，挂17仙，达1201万7300股易手。

Helenium拥有伦敦Kilburn High Road的永久综合用途产业。拟议的出售将让该集团获得现金，且可用于任何高潜能投资或收购。

这项脱售计划预计将为该集团带来238万令吉的收益。

 

（编译：陈慧...

拟售子公司持股权 Advance Synergy攀6.25%

Engineering services provider AWC Bhd has bagged two contracts worth a total of RM19.39 million for plumbing works at Hospital Kapar in Selangor and a data centre in Cyberjaya.

In a statement on Thursday, AWC said the Hospital Kapar job was awarded to its wholly-owned subsidiary Qudotech Sdn Bhd by the project's main contractor, IJM Corp Bhd's unit IJM Construction Sdn Bhd

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The construction and infrastructure outfit secured the job from Lembaga Air Sibu via an open tender, through its wholly owned Perbena Emas Sdn Bhd.

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Bank of Japan (BOJ) board member Asahi Noguchi said on Thursday the pace of future rate hikes would likely be much slower than that of its global peers in recent policy tightening, as the impact of rising domestic wages had yet be fully passed onto prices.

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Datuk Farhash Wafa Salvador, former political aide to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, has ceased to be a substantial shareholder of HeiTech Padu Bhd, just one month after acquiring a 15.9% stake via a private vehicle in the company.

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This would equate to a payout of RM287.78 million, based on the bank’s share base of 8.22 billion shares as at end-December 2023, according to MBSB’s bourse filing on Thursday.

MBSB proposes 3.5 sen dividend for FY2023

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