Bank Negara Malaysia’s decision last week to hold back another increase in the overnight policy rate (OPR) in view of a slowdown in the economy this year seems to have added an eleÂment of uncertainty to the projections of economists and capital market players.
The Covid-19 pandemic has been difficult for everyone, and even more so for businesses in Malaysia with the stop-start movement control orders over the last 16 months and a half.
The COVID-19 pandemic provides unmistakable evidence of the current tempest sweeping the face of the earth that has resulted in humanity’s foundations being rocked.
As my face-to-face lectures involved around 400 students, I sometimes envisioned myself as the Asian version of Ellen DeGeneres when I used the microphone. With my PowerPoint slides, the colourful Sharpie pens I used to demonstrate accounting solutions subsequently projected to the screen by the…
As we kick off the month that saw Malaya gaining its independence 64 years ago, the release of Malaysia’s Voluntary National Review (VNR) report for 2021 is timely.
The report, which is released once in four years, documents our progress in meeting sustainable development goals (SDG). For the 2021…
Tee Choo Ling, our Accounting and Finance alumna, had spent some time in employment in Singapore before she decided to return to Malaysia to take over the family pastry business. Her sister, Tee Jia Xin also our alumna from Actuarial Studies, decided to join her and the family business when the…
I am a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance graduate from 2014. Thanks to ÌÇÐÄÔ´´, my SUBS degree provided me with the necessary technical skills and essential skills to assist me in excelling in my current job. Besides this, the degree also taught me how to manage my time well…
Ten students from various programmes at ÌÇÐÄÔ´´ seized the opportunity and attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Summer School last year.
The following are some of their penned down thoughts regarding their breakthrough experiences.
For Alice Voong Shew Yin,…
The management of plastic waste is a big concern. Out of the 6,300 million tonnes of plastic waste generated between 1950 and 2015, only 9% was recycled globally. The global annual generation of plastic is currently around 400 million tonnes, and 86% of this will eventually become waste. In…
Leong Chee Keong was sent to an orphanage when he was a three-year-old toddler. His father passed away when he was young, therefore he never had an image of his father and lost contact with his mother, who stopped visiting when the orphanage moved.
Leong, together with his brother, grew up…