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(Via Business Times) Malaysian funds will buy almost half the nearly US$3 billion of stock Maxis Communications Bhd is selling in the country’s biggest initial public offering, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
Local investors that will buy shares of Malaysia’s largest mobile-phone carrier include the nation’s biggest pension fund, the Employees Provident Fund, [...]

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(The Edge) MEASAT Satellite Systems Sdn Bhd (MEASAT) today announced the successful lift-off of the LandLaunch launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan carrying the MEASAT-3a satellite into orbit.
(The Edge) Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS), which posted its first operating loss in 2 1/2 years in the first quarter, does not have any [...]

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(The Edge) Selangor government officials are meeting the state’s four water concessionaires, looking to make renewed offers for their assets, sources said. The Edge Financial Daily has learnt that state officials met representatives of water treatment company Konsortium Abass Sdn Bhd yesterday, and were slated to meet the top brass of another water treatment company [...]

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(The Edge) Speculation has been rife that Maxis Communications Bhd would be relisted either on the local bourse or overseas, and yesterday a local brokerage house reported that it may be done via its injection into Astro All Asia Networks plc, a sister firm in tycoon T Ananda Krishnan’s stable of companies.
(The Edge) Crude palm [...]

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(Business Times) Red Bull Malaysia today stressed that the Red Bull energy drink it distributes in the country does not contain any element of drug or alcohol. The drink was issued with a halal certificate when its distribution started in Malaysia in 1993, the company said in a statement in Kuala Lumpur.
(Business Times) Multimedia [...]

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(Business Times) TOTAL cargo throughput at three Sarawak ports – Rajang, Kuching and Miri – experienced a drop of 23 to 40 per cent in the first quarter of this year.
(Business Times) MORE people have approached the Credit Counselling and Debt Management Agency (AKPK) in the first quarter this year, but this is not solely [...]

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(Business Times) PACIFIC Mutual Fund Bhd has teamed up with Singapore-based Lion Global Investors Ltd to launch a growth fund that invests predominantly in equities and equity-related securities of companies listed in China.
(Bernama) Next Bike Sdn Bhd, the sole importer and distributor for Ducati motorbikes in Malaysia, expects to sell 120 Ducati bikes this year [...]

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