Astro is bringing in 13 new television channels to replace the 11 channels owned by The Walt Disney Co which will go off-air at end-Sep 2021. In our view, this is more a testament to the global media corporations relying on Astro to get their direc....

Ministry of Health mandated negative Covid-19 tests for travellers before they can depart to Langkawi under the domestic travel bubble starting 16 Sep. The cost of each test can be as low as RM16, suggesting that the cost of testing should not be an....

Despite the worsening Covid-19 outbreak, banks’ 2Q21 core net profit (CNP) jumped 29.5% yoy due to expansion in NIM and lower LLP. We project a recovery in banks’ CNP growth to 9.4% in 2021F and 7.3% in 2022F, underpinned by an increase in net inte....

After a resilient 1HFY21, we see a better 2HFY21 for DBB premised on a normalisation in demand from both the private and public healthcare sectors. We expect DBB to begin supplying the Sinopharm vaccine to the private sector as early as this month,.....