Malaysia Grants Licences to WeChat and TikTok Under New Law
Malaysia’s communications regulator has granted licences to WeChat and TikTok to operate under a new social media law, though some other platforms have not applied....
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Indian Refiners Cancelled 1,00,000 MT of Palm Oil Purchases on Import Duty Hike, Price Rise: Report
Indian oil refiners have cancelled purchases of 1,00,000 metric tons (MT) of palm oil scheduled for delivery between October 2024 and December 2024. They took...
Lenskart Acquires More Than 50% Stake in Japanese Eyewear Brand Owndays
Lenskart is buying more than fifty per cent stake in Japan’s Owndays Incorporation, a direct-to-consumer eyewear brand. This deal is to create Asia’s biggest online...
Malaysia Says No to Single-Use Plastics
Malaysia wants to phase out single-use plastics by 2030. Bioplastics may help achieve this goal. Malaysia’s ambitious roadmap to phase out single-use plastics by 2030...
Noida-based Edtech Startup Classplus Raises $70 Mn in Fresh Funding
B2B ed-tech startup Classplus said it had raised $70 million in a Series D round co-led by Alpha Wave Global and Tiger Global. Founded in...
India Reduces Tax on Crude Palm Oil
India has decreased its tax on crude palm oil (CPO) imports to 5 per cent from 7.5 per cent, the government said in a release....
Malaysian PM Resigns After Rough 17 Months in Office
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin resigned, and his government collapsed just after 17 months in office. Yassin’s rough period in office came to an end...
Hotstar Makes Up 40% of Disney+’s Overall Subscriber Additions in Q3
Disney+, the video streaming service owned by Walt Disney Company, said Hotstar accounted for nearly 40 per cent of its overall subscriber base at the...
Barbeque Nation Hospitality Zooms 37% in Q1 Results
Barbeque Nation Hospitality surged 18 per cent to Rs 1,215 on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in the intra-day trade on Friday, gaining 37 per...
IMF Slashes India’s FY22 Growth Outlook to 9.5%
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slashed the economic growth of India and projection for FY22 to 9.5 per cent from 12.5 per cent estimated...
