Yayasan Petronas Spreads Aidilfitri Cheer to Underprivileged Communities via Sentuhan Kasih

KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) — Yayasan PETRONAS continues its annual series of festive contribution activities in conjunction with the upcoming Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations nationwide. The Foundation, in collaboration with PETRONAS’ regional offices, will be distributing festive food items and personal hygiene care packages to 3,900 beneficiaries from low-income groups through Jabatan Kebajikan…

Exhibitors rush to join The Inaugural Malaysia Digital Travel Fair as Borders Reopen

SINGAPORE, April 26 (Bernama) — Since marking the end of travelling restrictions into Malaysia on 1 April 2022, tourism stakeholders from Malaysia rushed to take part in the inaugural Malaysia Digital Travel Fair (MDTF) in anticipation of the travel surge for the upcoming Singapore’s mid-year school vacation. MDTF is an online travel…

PETRONAS and TVS Motor Company Partner to Form PETRONAS TVS Racing Team

Chennai, April 26 (Bernama) — PETRONAS is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with TVS Motor Company, a reputed manufacturer of two-wheelers and three-wheelers to become the title partner to TVS Racing, India’s first factory racing team. Rebranded as PETRONAS TVS Racing Team, the outfit will don…

MTC Produces a Video on Best Practices in Compliance with Act 446, to Safeguard Workers’ Welfare

KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) — The Employees’ Minimum Standards of Housing, Accommodations and Amenities Act 1990 (Act 446) requires, among others, employers to provide a minimum space for workers’ accommodation and basic facilities.Although the COVID-19 pandemic is now under control in Malaysia, the workers’ housing has been thrust into the…

CIMB Uplifts Festive Spirit via Its Harapan Ramadan Programme

KUALA LUMPUR, April 25 (Bernama) —  CIMB Group Holdings Berhad (“CIMB Group” or “the Group”) has launched Harapan Ramadan, a series of community outreach programmes through CIMB Islamic Bank Berhad (“CIMB Islamic”) and CIMB Foundation, which saw a distribution of over RM750,000 worth of essential items and Baju Raya to the underserved communities.…

CWT Appoints Patrick Andersen As Chief Executive Officer

MINNEAPOLIS, April 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — CWT, the Business-to-Business-for-Employees (B2B4E) travel management platform, announces that Michelle McKinney Frymire has decided to step down from her roles at the Company. As part of the Company’s long-term succession planning process, the Board of Directors has appointed President and Chief Commercial Officer Patrick Andersen…

Future Proofing Palm Oil From Adverse Western Propaganda

KUALA LUMPUR, April 26 (Bernama) — The notoriety of developed economies against palm oil the most produced, consumed and traded edible oil – all in favour of protecting the soybean trade (the second most-produced edible oil) is well known. The European Union (EU) Parliament has voted for palm oil-based biofuels to be banned entirely by…

Mawi iSWAB Microbiome-EL Enables Prime Discoveries’ Development of Rapid Extraction-Less COVID Diagnostic Assay

HAYWARD, Calif., April 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Mawi DNA Technologies (Mawi), a biotechnology company focusing on the development of innovative technologies for biosampling, announces that Prime Discoveries has successfully developed CovidDetect™, a rapid isothermal amplification diagnostic assay for detecting SARS-CoV-2. Without the need for RNA extraction and purification, the sample…

Claritas HealthTech and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Sign Exclusive Worldwide Agreement for UNC’s Deep Learning Solution for Retrospective Artifact Correction in Paediatric MRI

SINGAPORE, April 26 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Claritas HealthTech Pte. Ltd. (“Claritas”), a healthcare technology company specializing in innovative deep-learning, image enhancement and accelerated image acquisition to improve the efficiency of medical imaging, announces today it has finalized a license agreement to commercialise the Paediatric MRI software developed and patented by…

upGrad Partners With Golden Gate University – San Francisco to Continue Its Global Expansion

ATLANTA, April 26 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — upGrad, Asia’s higher EdTech leader in a most recent development, has joined forces with Golden Gate University – one of California’s oldest private universities to launch 8 new online programs in the areas of Management and Law as a part of its initial expansion phase.…