From relishing lively and heterogenous cities to cathartic experiences of magnanimous mountains and oceans, one thing remains true — to travel well is to eat well. While you plan your journey to new countries and unexplored territories, the best meals should reward you with remarkable and memorable experiences.

Traveller’s guide to eating well

Hong Kong is a metropolis of culture and complexities that continue to defy definitions. With an amalgamation of colonial relics, Buddhist temples, lofty skylines and enchanting wilderness, it remains one of Asia’s most passionate and vibrant cities.

Hong Kong well travelled

A perfect concoction of verdant landscapes, spiritual traditions and bustling retail centres, Taiwan holds a legacy for being a haven for jet setters all over the world.

The Essential Guide to Taiwan

Art transforms lives. It gives people the power to question, to confront, to explore and to challenge how we think about the world.

RHB celebrates local arts with ‘Art with Heart’ exhibition

We are at the start of a new quarter, filled with new resolutions and hopes. And while the economy remains uncertain to many, it is predicted to remain resilient against various headwinds in the year to come.

Empowering your finances in 2017

Imagine this: A chauffeur driven limousine arrives at your doorstep, and you’re all packed and ready to go. You take a business-class flight to a world-class experience in Bali and everything else is nothing but a remarkable journey, and an indelible memory.

RHB Premier redefines luxury with the new Signature Experiences

The world is currently facing a rough economic environment and Malaysia is no different. A volatile foreign exchange market, coupled with tight cash flow mean that the country’s financial institutions have had to step up their efforts to face these challenges.

The Winning Strategy

Once a broad stroke that encompasses ideas of conservation and general environmental wellbeing, sustainability has come to mean many different things in this day and age. "Reuse, reduce, recycle" now finds its aging adage in the backseat, making way for new solutions to more contemporary challenges.

Prosperity begins with people: FGV's best practices in worker's wellbeing and sustainability

The global race to banking mobilisation is underway and leading banks are working earnestly to shift to a mobile-first approach. In line with this, RHB Bank Bhd is taking the leap forward with its exclusive RHB Now Mobile Banking Application that is tailored for RHB Premier customers.

RHB Premier Leads The Future Of Mobile Banking

This article first appeared in Special Report, The Edge Malaysia Weekly, on August 29 - September 4, 2016.

 

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Shares of ViTrox Corp Bhd are headed for its worst day in 18 months as first-quarter (1Q) results disappointed investors while analysts turned increasingly cautious on the semiconductor company’s near-term prospects.

Vitrox shares on pace for worst day in 18 months as 1Q disappoints

Four of seven ships trapped in Baltimore Harbour since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed last month have cleared the wreckage and are en route to their destinations.

Baltimore’s trapped ships start leaving as new channel opens

Intel forecast second-quarter revenue and profit below market estimates on Thursday, sending its shares tumbling roughly 8% as it faces weak demand for its traditional data centre and PC chips and trails in the surging market for artificial intelligence (AI) components.

Intel forecast misses estimates; shares tumble

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi warned his American counterpart that problems are mounting between the world’s largest economies, as the US threatens Beijing with sanctions for its support of Russia.

China warns Blinken ‘negative factors’ building in US relations

Microsoft beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, driven by gains from adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across its cloud services, and the company's shares jumped more than 4% in extended trade.

Microsoft results top Wall Street targets, driven by AI investment

The US plans to award Micron Technology Inc US$6.1 billion (RM29.14 billion) in grants and as much as US$7.5 billion in loans to help the memory-chip maker build new American factories, rounding out a slew of major federal awards for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

Micron clinches up to US$13.6b in US grants, loans

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday the strong dollar reflected the strength of the US economy and high interest rates, insisting that interventions by governments in currency markets were acceptable only in rare circumstances.

Yellen says currency intervention acceptable only in rare situations

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has updated its Investor Alert List.

SC adds four entities to Investor Alert List, two being potential clones

Mercury Securities Sdn Bhd has valued ACE Market-bound Sin-Kung Logistics Bhd at 14 sen based on a 14 times financial year 2025 (FY2025) earnings per share forecast of one sen.

Mercury Securities values ACE Market-bound Sin-Kung Logistics at 14 sen

HLIB is positive on how AME REIT ended the year.

MORNING CALL: 26/4/24

Here is a brief recap of some business news and corporate announcements that made the headlines on Thursday:

AirAsia X, Capital A, ViTrox, PavREIT, Luxchem, Chin Teck, MKHOP, TAS Offshore, Inta Bina, Heineken, Pantech and Infoline Tec 

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EVENING 5: Five things you need to know today

Wall Street stocks closed lower on Thursday as markets were stunned by data showing slower-than-expected US economic growth and persistent inflation, coupled with a sell-off in large cap stocks triggered by disappointing results from Meta Platforms.

Wall Street stocks fall as weak GDP growth spreads rate-cut gloom

TAS Offshore Bhd’s net profit has leapt by nine-fold year-on-year for the financial quarter ended Feb 29, 2024 (3QFY2024) due to more vessels delivered.

TAS Offshore’s 3Q net profit up nine-fold, shares surge to eight-year high

Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape was overturned by New York's highest court, reopening the landmark case that fuelled the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable.

Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned by top New York court

Mercury Securities Sdn Bhd has valued ACE Market-bound Sin-Kung Logistics Bhd at 14 sen based on a 14 times financial year 2025 (FY2025) earnings per share forecast of one sen.

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has updated its Investor Alert List.

US economic growth for the first quarter could be revised higher and inflation will ease to more normal levels, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Reuters on Thursday after a clutch of "peculiar" factors held the economy to its weakest showing in nearly two years.

US growth may get revised up, inflation will ebb

EUPE Corp Bhd's net profit surged by 28.9% to RM14.54 million in the fourth quarter ended Feb 29, 2024 (4QFY2024) from RM11.28 million a year ago, underpinned by a higher contribution from the property development division.

EUPE Corp net profit surges 28.9% in 4Q, driven by strong property sales

Hulu Selangor Bersatu action division head has been named as Perikatan Nasional's (PN) candidate for the Kuala Kubu Baharu (KKB) state by-election on May 11.

PN names Hulu Selangor Bersatu acting division head as candidate for KKB by-election

RHB Retail Research said YTL Corp Bhd is eyeing to extend the upside movement after it staged a bullish breakout.

YTL Corp eyeing to extend upside movement, says RHB Retail Research 

Infoline Tec Group Bhd has proposed to transfer its listing from the ACE Market to the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia as it has met the profit requirements for the transfer.

Infoline Tec seeks transfer from ACE Market to Main Market

RHB Retail Research said VS Industry Bhd is poised to continue the bullish trajectory after it broke past the key resistance on high volume.

VS Industry poised to continue bullish trajectory, says RHB Retail Research 

The Tesla Inc shareholder who won a court order in Delaware killing co-founder Elon Musk’s US$56 billion (RM267.54 billion) pay package is premature in asking the judge to bar the billionaire from moving the executive-compensation dispute to Texas, the car company’s lawyers argue.

Tesla fires back at investor who doesn’t want pay fight in Texas

Former president Donald Trump’s economic advisers are considering ways to actively stop nations from shifting away from using the dollar — an effort to counter budding moves among key emerging markets to reduce exposure to the US currency, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump advisers discuss penalties for nations that move away from the dollar

Alphabet announced its first-ever dividend on Thursday and a US$70 billion (RM334.43 billion) stock buyback, cheering investors who sent the stock surging nearly 16% after the bell.

Google parent Alphabet announces first-ever dividend, shares soar

China is preparing a United Nations General Assembly resolution that it says is intended to help close gaps between rich and developing countries in the advance of artificial intelligence (AI), an initiative that follows an extensive and ambitious campaign by the US, its biggest AI competitor.

China prepares UN resolution to tap AI for good

One fixture lurking like a troll in Arsenal's Premier League title run-in has probably consumed the thoughts of the club's fans more than any other — Sunday's short trip to arch-rivals Tottenham Hotspur.

Arsenal face derby test with title up for grabs

Foreign states are using UK universities to “steal advantage” by covertly acquiring British intellectual property, the government warned, saying it would explore proposals to protect cutting-edge research and technology.

UK warns universities about research threat from foreign states

Stocks snapped a three-day winning streak on Thursday as disappointing forecasts from Facebook and Instagram owner Meta hammered the tech sector, and Japan's yen sank through 155 per dollar for the first time since 1990.

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