The Tebedu-Entikong crossing is reopening, and no one has published the date. That is the state of the record four weeks after the Prime Minister told Parliament that Malaysia and Indonesia had agreed to expedite the reopening of the trade route, during the tabling of Budget 2027 on 9 October....
Free AI For Malaysian SMEs: AWS Opens 10,000 Places
Amazon Web Services launched Semarak AI Malaysia on 4 November 2026 at AWS Cloud and AI Day in Kuala Lumpur. The part a Malaysian SME can use sits under the AI Ekonomi pillar: six months of complimentary access to Amazon Quick and Kiro, after an AI readiness assessment, delivered through...
How To Export From Malaysia With Alibaba.com: The Complete Seller Guide
Malaysia exported RM1.571 trillion of goods in the first nine months of 2026, up 34.0 per cent on the same period last year, with total trade at RM2.910 trillion. That demand did not come only from the conglomerates. A growing share of it came from companies with fewer than 200...
Ransomware Malaysia: 177 Organisations Listed, 16 In October
Ransomware Malaysia figures from the Brandefense ATLAS tracker put 177 Malaysian organisations on ransomware leak sites as of 7 November 2026, ranking the country 24th of 184, with 16 organisations listed in October alone, the heaviest month of the year so far. Those are the groups' own claims, compiled by...
Bank Rakyat Hack: The Bank And The Minister Disagree
The Bank Rakyat hack became a matter of public record on Saturday, 7 November, when Communications Minister Datuk Seri Fahmi Fadzil told reporters in Doha that the bank had reported its third-party-managed website hacked, with the damage confined to web defacement. The bank itself, in a statement on Facebook the...
SCALE Action Plan 2027: Kuskop’s Five Shifts For Malaysian SMEs
The Ministry of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development has put a name and five letters on what it plans to do to Malaysian small business after Budget 2027. The SCALE Action Plan, announced at the SAMENTA SME CEO Forum 2026, is a 2027 work programme rather than a spending announcement, and...
Zero Trust Malaysia: What MACC’s 90,000 Daily Attacks Should Change At Your SME
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission detects and foils between 80,000 and 90,000 cyberattack attempts every day. That figure, given by the commission's own records and information management director, is the most useful number an SME will see this month, and not because a small company faces anything like that volume. It...
Investment Marketing China: Malaysian Firms Sit Outside The Permitted Class
Investment marketing China is now closed to a Malaysian company that promotes investment products, trading accounts or wealth content to a Chinese audience, and the position is unusual: under China's new rules it is not merely unlicensed, it is outside the class of entities allowed to do the marketing at...
MediAsas Malaysia: RM200 Per Worker Off An SME’s First-Year Premium
MediAsas is the government's new basic medical plan, launching in January 2027, and it carries the first direct subsidy an SME has been offered for staff medical cover: for companies with fewer than 75 employees, the government pays RM200 of the first-year premium per worker, capped at 50 workers per...
WhatsApp Scam Malaysia: RM327,000 Lost In Two Transfers
A company in Kuching lost RM327,000 in two bank transfers after an employee received a WhatsApp message from someone claiming to be the company director. Kuching district police chief ACP Alexson Naga Chabu confirmed the case on 15 October 2026, and two independent Malaysian outlets reported it within 24 hours:...