The economy of Malaysia is the fifth largest in Southeast Asia and the 38th largest in the world in terms of GDP. The 2018 labour productivity of Malaysia was measured at Int$55,360 per worker, the third highest in ASEAN. The 2021 Global Competitiveness Report ranked Malaysian economy the 25th most competitive country economy in the world.
Tenaga Nasional Berhad, also known as Tenaga Nasional or simply Tenaga, is the Malaysian multinational electricity company and is the only electric utility company in Peninsular Malaysia and also the largest publicly-listed power company in Southeast Asia with MYR 182.60 billion worth of assets. It serves over 10.3 million customers throughout Peninsular Malaysia and the East Malaysian state of Sabah through Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd. TNB's core activities are in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity. Other activities include repairing, testing and maintaining power plants, providing engineering, procurement and construction services for power plants related products, assembling and manufacturing high voltage switchgears, coal mining and trading. Operations are carried out in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Cambodia. TNB also offers higher education through its university, Universiti Tenaga Nasional (Uniten). TNB also exports electricity to Singapore via a partnership between its subsidiary TNB Power Generation Sdn Bhd and YTL PowerSeraya Pte Ltd.
Sime Darby Berhad is a Malaysian trading conglomerate. Its core businesses operate and serve in the industrial, motors and logistics sectors as well as the healthcare, and insurance segments.
DRB-HICOM Berhad is one of Malaysia's leading corporations, involved in the automotive manufacturing, assembly and distribution industry through its involvement in the passenger car and four wheel drive vehicle market segment, the national truck project and the national motorcycle project. DRB-HICOM is the majority shareholder of Malaysia's national car company, Proton, with China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group the other shareholder since an equity sale in 2017. The Group also owns national motorcycle company Modenas, with Japanese two-wheeler giant Kawasaki as its partner. DRB-HICOM assembles cars in Malaysia for Tata Motors, Honda, Isuzu, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen, with plans for expansion. The Group also retails various brands such Audi, Mitsubishi and Volkswagen.
Khazanah Nasional Berhad (lit. 'National Treasure Limited'; doing business as Khazanah Nasional or simply Khazanah) is the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Malaysia. One of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, it was established to invest surplus revenues for Malaysia. Through its investments and activities, the fund seeks to deliver sustainable economic and societal benefit for the nation. This includes achieving long-term risk-adjusted returns across the portfolio, as well as undertaking investments that catalyse new growth areas, strengthen Malaysia’s economic competitiveness, and contribute to priority socioeconomic outcomes.
UEM Group Berhad or UEM Group is a Malaysian engineering-based infrastructure and services company with four key businesses namely Expressways; Township & Property Development; Engineering & Construction; and Asset & Facility Management. UEM Group has been a 100% subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional Berhad since 2001. UEM Group has assets of more than US$5.3 billion, with shareholders' funds standing in excess of US$1.9 billion as the end of December 2020.
AmBank Group comprises AMMB Holdings Berhad is one of the largest banking groups in Malaysia whose core businesses are retail banking, wholesale banking, Islamic banking, and life and general insurance.
CIMB Group Holdings Berhad is a Malaysian universal bank headquartered in Kuala Lumpur and operating in high growth economies in ASEAN. CIMB Group is an indigenous ASEAN investment bank. CIMB has a wide retail branch network with 1,080 branches across the region.
Dato' Seri Utama Haji Mohamad bin Hasan, familiarly known as Tok Mat or Mat Hasan, is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Minister of Defence in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim since December 2022. He has also served as Deputy Chairman of the Barisan Nasional (BN) and Deputy President of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) since June 2018, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rembau since November 2022, State Leader of the Opposition of Negeri Sembilan from July 2018 to February 2019 and again since April 2019 as well as Member of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Rantau from March 2004 to February 2019 and again since April 2019. He served as the 10th Menteri Besar of Negeri Sembilan from March 2004 to the collapse of the BN state administration in May 2018 and State Chairman of BN and UMNO of Negeri Sembilan.
1Malaysia Development Berhad is an insolvent Malaysian strategic development company, wholly owned by the Minister of Finance (Incorporated).
The Economic Transformation Programme is an initiative by the Malaysian government to turn Malaysia into a high income economy by the year of 2020. It is managed by the Performance Management and Delivery Unit (PEMANDU), an agency under the Prime Minister Department of Malaysia.
Cheong Chia Chieh was the group managing director of PUC Founder (MSC) Berhad – a listed company under ACE market of Bursa Malaysia – principally engaged in three different sectors, which are the Technology, Media and Telecommunication sector ("TMT"), Mobile Application sector, and Renewable Energy sector. He was the Former Managing Director of Red-hot Media International Limited (“RHM”) with the role of primarily being responsible for its overall operations within the RHM group of companies, sales as well as strategic direction and vision for the group. He was a founding director of the RH Media Group, and also a board member of a number of RHM's subsidiaries, including being the sole director of Red Media Asia Ltd.
Abdul Wahid bin Omar is the non-executive chairman of Bursa Malaysia since 1 May 2020. He is also the chairman of the board of directors of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), one of Malaysia top universities, since 1 November 2018.
According to a 2013 public survey in Malaysia by Transparency International, a majority of the surveyed households perceived Malaysian political parties to be highly corrupt. A quarter of the surveyed households consider the government's efforts in the fight against corruption to be ineffective. Corruption in Malaysia generally involves political connections still playing an important role in the outcome of public tenders.
PPB Group Berhad is a Malaysian diversified conglomerate which engages in food production, agriculture, waste management, film distribution, property investment and development. PPB is also the single largest shareholder, through an 18 percent stake, in Wilmar International, one of the leading palm oil producers and agribusiness companies in the world.
Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad (Kenanga IB) is a Malaysian financial services company which provides investment banking, stockbroking and investment management services.
Gibraltar BSN Life Berhad is a Malaysian life insurance company. It is a joint venture between U.S.-based Prudential Financial Inc. (PFI) and Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN).
Sime Darby Property was created through the integration of the property arms under the former Golden Hope Plantations Berhad, Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad, and Sime Darby Berhad. Apart from its 20,763 acres of landbank spanning from Selangor to Johor, Sime Darby Property also has assets and operations across the Asia Pacific region and the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest property developers in the country by revenue and gross development value (GDV) of current projects.
Digital Nasional Berhad is a Malaysian special-purpose vehicle company owned by the Ministry of Finance Malaysia and is regulated by the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission. DNB was established in early March 2021 to drive the development of the 5G (fifth-generation) infrastructure in Malaysia. It will offer 5G as a wholesale network service to other telecommunication companies.
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