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AI Governance Bill Malaysia: The Week AI Got Red Lines

World leaders opened the UN General Assembly's high-level week on Tuesday with artificial intelligence near the top of the agenda. The day before, OpenAI published a policy paper asking the United States to lead the writing of global technical standards for frontier AI. Its chief executive briefs the UN Security...

KL and Penang Events This October 2026: Dates, Venues and What to Plan For

The first week of October 2026 is the densest stretch on the Malaysian events calendar this year. Formula 1 returns to Sepang after a nine-year absence, Le Tour de Langkawi runs its 30th edition, and the Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon lands on the same weekend — three events that...

Xiaohongshu Malaysia: The Free Banned-Word Check Before You Post

Xiaohongshu stopped being a niche Chinese app in Malaysia somewhere around the middle of 2026, when its business arm started running growth summits with the Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce in Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan and Melaka. More than 300 entrepreneurs showed up across the three sessions. What most of them...

Chinese F&B Brands in Malaysia: What 18,000 Mean for Retailers

More than 18,000 Chinese food and beverage brands are now trading in Malaysia. If you run a shop, a restaurant or a mall tenancy, that number is the whole argument. BFM is running a forum on it on Wednesday 23 September at Menara KEN TTDI in Kuala Lumpur. Not a...

Malaysia Expands Electricity Bill Protection to 800 kWh

On 17 September 2026 the government raised the monthly electricity consumption threshold that separates a protected household from an exposed one. It moved from 600 kilowatt-hours to 800. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced it the same day, after a special meeting at the Ministry of Finance that ran about an...