Shannon Teoh
Malaysia Bureau Chief at The Straits Times
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1 week ago |
straitstimes.com | Shannon Teoh
Published May 07, 2025, 12:34 PM Asian Insider: Malaysia Edition helps you connect the dots on the biggest stories playing out in Malaysia every week. to get the newsletter in your inbox. Malaysia is delaying price hikes as it grapples with US President Donald Trump’s tariffs that threaten to trigger a global economic slowdown.
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1 week ago |
straitstimes.com | Shannon Teoh
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia is set to take a hit to its coffers, as uncertainty looms over the impact of the impending US import tariff regime, with Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim postponing measures such as tax hikes and subsidy cuts in the face of dimming growth prospects. Higher sales and services tax (SST) rates on a broader basket of items were due to be implemented on May 1.
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2 weeks ago |
straitstimes.com | Shannon Teoh
Published Apr 30, 2025, 01:55 PM Asian Insider: Malaysia Edition helps you connect the dots on the biggest stories playing out in Malaysia every week. to get the newsletter in your inbox. It’s election fever in Singapore and Australia, but Malaysia has somehow found a way to get involved. First, a couple of Parti Islam SeMalaysia officials had their social media posts blocked in Singapore, after being accused of attempting to influence the city state’s polls on May 3.
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2 weeks ago |
straitstimes.com | Shannon Teoh
KUALA LUMPUR - Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s ally Barisan Nasional (BN) easily retained its seat in a by-election in Perak on April 26, but the ability of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) to more than double its vote share to 6 per cent should worry the Pakatan Harapan (PH) chief. The vote surge by the tiny PSM was by far the fringe party’s best outing since ending its electoral pact with Datuk Seri Anwar’s coalition, then known as Pakatan Rakyat, after the 2013 general election.
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3 weeks ago |
straitstimes.com | Shannon Teoh
Published Apr 23, 2025, 12:30 PM Asian Insider: Malaysia Edition helps you connect the dots on the biggest stories playing out in Malaysia every week. to get the newsletter in your inbox. How did a missing moon manage to eclipse Chinese President Xi Jinping’s landmark visit to Kuala Lumpur last week?
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