PETALING JAYA, Malaysia (MNTV) — Malaysia has drawn approved investments averaging $86.1 billion a year from 2022 to 2025, a level economists say reflects both strong fundamentals and deliberate policy, The Star reported. The boom has been driven partly by global supply-chain realignment, as foreign firms diversify away from concentrating oper...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (MNTV) — Gaza’s beekeeping sector is facing the risk of collapse as Israel’s genocidal war has destroyed apiaries, wiped out vegetation and prevented beekeepers from reaching key grazing areas in the eastern Gaza Strip. According to 2025 data from the Cooperative Society of Beekeepers in Gaza, the honey production and beek...
YEREVAN, Armenia (MNTV) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he wants work on a proposed U.S.-backed transit corridor linking Azerbaijan with its Nakhichevan exclave through southern Armenia to begin as soon as possible, despite continuing concerns raised by neighboring Iran, according to Freedom TV. Speaking to reporters Thursday, P...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (MNTV) — Indonesia’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) has developed a new nickel ore processing technology capable of recovering up to 98 % of materials that would otherwise become waste. The innovation is designed to improve resource efficiency while supporting more sustainable use of the country’...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (MNTV) — Indonesia’s labor market has come under growing pressure as a string of major companies across the textile, footwear, electronics, digital, manufacturing, and media sectors have announced mass layoffs since 2025, despite the country’s economy continuing to expand at a robust pace, reports Jakarta Globe. ...
SINGAPORE (MNTV) – Malaysia and Indonesia are reinforcing Southeast Asia’s position as a major hub for Islamic finance as global assets in the sector approach $6 trillion and industry leaders forecast continued rapid growth over the next five years, reports The Edge Singapore. According to data from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), glob...
JAKARTA, Indonesia (MNTV) — Indonesia’s Islamic finance industry is likely to grow further in the second half of 2026-27 due to its strategic importance to the government and resilient operating environment, Fitch Ratings says. The industry was estimated at more than $200 billion at end-May. Fitch expects Indonesia to remain among the world’s ...
ISTANBUL, Turkiye (MNTV) — The US-Iran deal-led ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz will gradually increase, resulting in a noticeable easing in the spot market, marking “a gradual and fluctuating normalization,” an industry representative told Anadolu. Bilgehan Engin, president of the Turkish Forwarding and Logistics Association (UTIKAD), st...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (MNTV) — Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday signaled potential progress on the long-delayed Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, saying gas and oil imports from Iran could become a reality as economic and trade cooperation between the two neighboring countries expands. The remarks came during a visit to Pa...
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) – President Donald Trump said early Wednesday that he had ordered the Justice Department to probe oil companies over high gasoline prices. “The big Oil Companies are not dropping their price at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices they are paying for Oil. Those prices are dropping lik...
