KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Bernama) — PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) released its second quarter 2019 financial results today, showing an improvement from the previous quarter amid challenging environment. The Group recorded higher production volume during the quarter as the Group achieved higher plant utilisation rate of 100% in 2Q 2019…

WASHINGTON D.C., Aug 13 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The UNITED SIKHS legal team is working with the family of an elderly Sikh man after receiving a report today that he encountered several brutal attackers inside his own home during a suspected hate crime. According to details provided by the family, who wish to stay anonymous during this hardship,…

NEW YORK, Aug 13 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Reverie: Page is a newly-established fashion publication dedicated to the development and success of current and emerging fashion designers. Focusing on sustainability and promoting consciousness while delivering an unbiases perspective of the fashion industry. Page magazine core belief is to bring back the vivacity and…

PHILADELPHIA, Aug 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Project Management Institute (PMI), the world’s leading not-for-profit membership association for the project management profession, today announced the acquisition of Disciplined Agile (DA). The DA toolkit is the world’s only comprehensive agile body of knowledge (BOK) that provides straightforward and practical guidance to help individuals,…

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Bernama) — After an intense 10-day competition, the Top Winners of the Maybank GO Ahead. Challenge (MGAC) 2019 were revealed at The Party in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. MGAC, Maybank’s award-winning, multi-disciplinary talent acquisition and recruitment programme, which is in its 8th instalment this year, remains an innovative…

BOSTON & HONG KONG & SINGAPORE, Aug 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company (BHSI) today announced that it has enhanced its Asia Executive FirstDirectors & Officers (D&O) Liability Insurance to include a market-leading provision that reinstates policy limits exhausted by the entity or by individual insureds. http://mrem.bernama.com/viewsm.php?idm=35214

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Bernama) — BMW Group Financial Services Malaysia has launched the DirectDebit e-Mandates registration service in collaboration with Citi Malaysia and Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet) to provide added convenience and flexible recurring payment options for their customers. Present at the launch ceremony were Mr. Tobias Eismann,…

PETALING JAYA, Aug 13 (Bernama) —  Halal Development Corporation (HDC), an agency under the Ministry of Economic Affairs Malaysia (MEA) today announced the appointment of Dato’ Mahmud Abbas as its Chairman effective 30 July 2019. The key focus of HDC is to drive revenue growth and sustainability of Malaysia’s halal industry…

DALLAS, Aug 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — As one of the world’s leading skincare innovators in the direct selling and cosmetic industries, Mary Kay continued its decades-long commitment to skin science research by revealing the results of a study to improve skin barrier function and facial redness at the Annual Meeting of…

SINGAPORE, Aug 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to B++ (Good) from B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “bbb” from “bbb-” of PVI Reinsurance Joint-stock Corporation (PVI Re) (Vietnam). The outlook of these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. The ratings reflect PVI Re’s…