Anuradha Raghu

FREE Earlier this month, Orkim Victory was hijacked on June 4 in the same area.

FREE A mild rebound in oil helped earnings bounce from the previous quarter.

Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang, and Perak account for about 30pct of supply.

Crude palm oil is increasingly being used as an additive to fossil fuels.

'The drought we had early this year will definitely affect output for 2014.'

Many economists anticipate Malaysia’s inflation rate will increase in coming months due to the newly-implemented minimum wage policy.

January's trade balance stood at a meagre RM3.3 billion (US$1.06 billion), its lowest since April 2002, government data shows today.

Malaysia’s economy accelerated at an annual pace of 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter, beating expectations with the fastest growth since 2010 as domestic demand stayed robust ahead of elections that must be called by April.

Prices of food, alcoholic beverages and healthcare rose while clothing and communication fell, according to Statistics Dept.

Prices of food, household equipment and education rose while clothing and communication fell, according to the data from the Statistics Department.

The industrial production index fell 0.7 percent from a year earlier in August, dragged down by manufacturing while electricity and mining held up.

Housewife Leong Yoke Ping bought a Sapphire Gold Arowana, otherwise known as a dragon fish, for RM9,000.

Pakatan Rakyat has vowed to scrap rare-earths processing plant being built by Lynas Corp if it wins elections.