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Top Glove chairman addresses forced labour allegations
Top Glove, the world’s largest manufacturer of latex gloves, is currently weathering a critical challenge. In late March 2021, the US Customs and Border Protection ordered the seizure of all Top Glove products in the United States, accusing the company of using forced labour and exploiting its workers.
The Women Rocking Top Glove: When Glass Ceilings are Broken
“You know there was a Harvard University study...
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Rethinking Malaysia (Part 1)
Investvine’s Imran Saddique and Firoz Abdul Hamid recently had the opportunity to interview two of Malaysia’s up-and-coming leaders: Muhammad Rafique Rashid Ali,...
What will happen on October 13?
Malaysian opposition politician Anwar Ibrahim announced late last month that his Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) coalition...
Video interview: Malaysia’s Grand Old Statesman speaks out
Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s prime minister for two separate terms from 1981 to 2003 and 2018 to 2020, gave Investvine his latest interview,...
“There is no restart button for exiting the crisis”: Malaysia’s Ex-Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin
Interview conducted by Firoz Abdul Hamid and Jeremiah Capacillo
Read part one and part two of this interview.
“Checks And Balances Must Be Continued Irrespective Of Which Government Is In Power”: Malaysia’s Ex-Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin
Interview conducted by Firoz Abdul Hamid and Jeremiah Capacillo
Read part one of this interview.
“There must be clear goals and clear timelines” to navigate through crisis: Malaysia’s ex-finance minister Daim Zainuddin
Interview conducted by Firoz Abdul Hamid and Jeremiah Capacillo
Daim Zainuddin is a man apart. The Malaysian politician has...
Living the illogical world of Alice in Wonderland
By Firoz Abdul Hamid
The study of Aristotelian logic (or in the Islamic syllabus known as Mantiq –...
Define Terrorism
Will the Philippines’ new Anti-Terrorism Bill fight more than just terror?
By Jeremiah Capacillo
In search of a few good men, and women
By Firoz Abdul Hamid
Emir Abdul Qadir Al-Jazairi was a truly unusual leader, one the world is so...
The passing of an icon
Epilogue for Sheikh Saleh Abdullah Kamel, a man who built lives, developed communities and redefined Islamic finance.
By Vaseehar...
ABS-CBN shutdown: Oppressing the press
The Philippine government’s closing down of the country’s biggest broadcast network is the latest attack in its decades-long war against and persecution...
Covid-19: No country for old men? Think again
By Max Herriman
"Isle of the Dead" by Swiss painter Arnold Böcklin, who created several versions of this...
Malaysia’s political power play: Game of Thrones?
How the ongoing power plays between Malaysia’s most prominent political parties affect the nation’s democracy, ethics, governance structures and economic well-being amid...
Butterflies and swans: Virus crisis calls for stress tests in business planning
The butterfly effect was first coined in the 1952 short story “A Sound of Thunder” (Collier’s, 1952)...
Coronavirus crisis: Shall one die for the sake of the economy?
By Max Herriman
A Covid-19 victim is carted away in a funeral car in New York in April
Ethics in business: As we sign off in the end…
By Firoz Abdul Hamid
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like many, Netflix and Amazon Prime has taken a somewhat off-center stage (thankfully not...
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HSBC considers $200-million IPO of local Indonesian unit
UK-based multinational banking giant HSBC is considering listing its Indonesia unit on the stock exchange in Jakarta, Bloomberg News reported with reference to unnamed...
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Vietnam, India could replace China as Apple’s manufacturing hub – in the long run
US tech giant Apple has told its suppliers that it wants to expand contract manufacturing outside of China and is looking at Vietnam and...