<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>KUALA LUMPUR (March 28): Foreign holdings in Axiata Group Bhd reached the 11% threshold last month, the highest figure recorded by the multinational telecommunications company in two years since March 2020.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Axiata’s foreign holdings&nbsp;rose to 11% in February 2022 from 10.9% reported in the previous month.&nbsp;</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>According to published data that goes back to 2013, the group's highest foreign shareholding in the last eight years was 28.3% recorded in January 2013, while the lowest foreign shareholding level was found in June 2018&nbsp;at 9.3%.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>According to <em>Bloomberg</em> data, Khazanah Nasional Bhd is the largest shareholder of Axiata with a total stake of 36.75% or 3.37 billion shares, followed by the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) (16.99%) and Amanah Saham Bumiputera (14.68%).</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>At the time of writing on Monday (March 28), shares in Axiata traded unchanged at RM3.81, valuing the group at RM34.96 billion.</p></div>


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<p>Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar and Raja Permaisuri Agong Raja Zarith Sofiah will undertake a state visit to Singapore on May 6 and 7, 2024 at the invitation of the republic's President Tharman Shanmugaratnam.</p>
