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New Straits Times
a minute ago
- Business
- New Straits Times
Bursa opens 0.36pct easier after two-day rally, tracking mixed global cues
KUALA LUMPUR: Bursa Malaysia opened on a low note on Friday after recording gains over two consecutive sessions, tracking the mixed performance of global markets. At 9.15am, the FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) erased 4.59 points to 1,535.73, after closing at an intra-day high of 1,540.32 yesterday. The index had opened 1.60 points lower at 1,538.66. Turnover stood at 214.97 million shares valued at RM113.71 million. Rakuten Trade Sdn Bhd Head of research Kenny Yee said Wall Street closed mixed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower due to the sell-off on IBM. "Over in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index continued its winning streak to stay within the 25,700 mark as sentiment remains buoyant with the United States (US) looking more forthcoming in negotiations amid the ongoing trade tension, and many are hoping a deal may be agreed between the US and the EU soon. "On the home front, the FBM KLCI displayed another decent performance as it ended at the 1,540 level, possibly from institutional support in view of the upcoming results season," he told Bernama. Yee said that the index is expected to maintain its positive course and trend in the 1,535-1,550 range today. Among the heavyweights, Maybank lost two sen to RM9.61, Tenaga Nasional reduced 18 sen to RM13.76 and CIMB was one sen easier at RM6.69, while IHH Healthcare earned three sen to RM6.68 and Public Bank was flat at RM4.31. As for the active counters, NexG advanced one sen to 52.5 sen, Green Packet added half-a-sen to five sen and Lotte Chemicals was one sen lower at 69.5 sen, while TWL, Pharmaniaga and SFP Tech were unchanged at 2.5 sen, 22 sen and 20 sen, respectively. On the broader index board, the FBM Emas Index erased 30.76 points to 11,520.41, the FBMT 100 Index slid 31.96 points to 11,282.60, and the FBM Emas Shariah Index shed 39.34 points to 11,541.62. The FBM 70 Index was 39.42 points lower at 16,619.45, while the FBM ACE Index added 0.88 of a point to 4,643.39. Sector-wise, the Financial Services Index reduced 10.21 points to 17,495.37 and the Industrial Products and Services Index slipped 0.41 of a point to 157.75, while the Energy Index rose 1.17 points to 739.85 and the Plantation Index inched up 1.02 points to 7,470.98.
Vogue
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
With Her New Book, ‘Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar,' Katie Yee Slyly Updates the Divorce Novel
In Katie Yee's debut novel, Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar, the titular Maggie is two things at once: the white woman Yee's unnamed Chinese-American protagonist has been left for by her partner, Samuel (whom she memorably describes as having 'skin that loosely resembles pale shrimp gaining pink over the stove'), and the name that said protagonist gives to her tumor after discovering that she has breast cancer. While none of this may sound very funny, Yee manages to spin genuine laughs—not to mention a thoughtful meditation on the meanings of health, love, family, loyalty, and identity—out of her protagonist's pain. This week, Vogue spoke to Yee about knitting her novel together from two short stories, hanging onto useless-seeming information about exes, taking inspiration from Chinese folklore passed down from her mother and grandmother, and the strangeness of only wanting to read something that mirrors your own experience. The conversation has been edited and condensed. Vogue: How does it feel to see your book out in the world? Katie Yee: It feels pretty surreal. I feel like the whole publishing process is such a wild ride. I've had galleys for a while, but it feels so wonderfully strange to see the book in other people's hands. I got a text from a friend the other day that was like, 'I saw someone reading your book across the train platform,' and I was so excited. What came to you first as you were writing: Maggie the person or Maggie the tumor? Oh, that's a great question. The novel started out as a short story that just kept getting bigger and bigger and rolling away from me. I think at a separate point, these were two different short stories that kind of grew parallel lives. It wasn't until I was really thinking about it later that I was like, There's a narrator in one that's really funny and resilient, and I kind of want to see what might happen if we make these plot lines converge. I was so struck by the narrator's Guide to My Husband: A User's Manual. What was that like to put together? That was really fun. There's this incredible book called 2500 Random Things About Me Too by Matias Viegener that I want to say I read in an experimental fiction class in college, and the whole thing was a riff off of whatever Facebook trend was happening at the time, where the writer was just listing, you know, 'Thing one: I have a dog. Thing two: I live in Brooklyn. Thing three…' And then, over the course of a really long list, it's so interesting to see what recurring questions or themes or arcs kind of arrive. I think putting together the user's manual was a little bit like doing that. I was really caught up in the question of, what do you do when you when you break up with someone, or when someone's no longer in your life, but you have all of this information about them and you know all these granular details about really weird things, like what they're allergic to? Where does that go? That's kind of what I was getting at there.
The Star
15 hours ago
- Sport
- The Star
Triathlon-Olympic champion Yee mixing things up to stay fresh for assault on LA 2028
FILE PHOTO: Paris 2024 Olympics - Triathlon - Men's Individual Victory Ceremony - Alexander III Bridge, Paris, France - July 31, 2024. Gold medallist Alex Yee of Britain celebrates with his medal on the podium. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) -Alex Yee is already the most successful athlete in Olympic triathlon history and to give himself the best chance of adding to his medals in Los Angeles 2028 the Briton is mixing marathons with high-adrenaline Supertri to keep him fresh in mind and body. Yee's extraordinary late surge to overcome Hayden Wilde and snatch gold in Paris was one of the great moments of the Games. It came after he took silver in Tokyo alongside a gold in the Mixed Relay, adding bronze in that team event in 2024. Still only 27, Yee's goal is to match compatriot Alistair Brownlee by successfully defending his title in LA, but, having been putting his body through the relentless training needed for success across three sports since his teens, he has taken a different approach this year. After adding the 2024 world title to his Olympic haul over the 1,500m swim, 40km bike, 10km run distance, Yee threw himself into his first marathon and duly clocked an impressive two hours, 11.08 minutes to finish 14th at the London Marathon in April. "It was a very special period and allowed me to take a step back from my triathlon training and look at things a little bit differently to see how I could improve," Yee told Reuters in an interview. "I think for me to be able to take that small step away but still be working very much within the context of getting better within triathlon was very exciting but it was also the fact I was able to race one of my dream races, which I grew up leaning over the barriers and watching as a fan after racing the mini marathon." This weekend Yee goes to the other end of the speed spectrum when he races the Toronto leg of Supertri, the fast and furious multi-lap format that features three back-to-back rounds of 300m swim, 4km bike and 1.6km run with eight transitions. 'EXCITING FORMAT' "It's an exciting format for people to watch, it's developing our sport and evolving it and it's something which I want to be part of," he said. "With those races everything comes at you so fast that the mistakes are often magnified and as a result you actually have that really short-term opportunity to learn three times rather than it being one big hit and then you move on. "It might be a very small thing, maybe you miss your buckle on your helmet and then the next thing you know the pack's gone. It's all those little nuances which make up Supertri and make it exciting." Those "marginal gains" picked up from different formats and building marathon endurance are key to Yee's bid for more gold in LA, when the individual triathlon medals will be won on the first two days of the Games. "The sport has evolved and I know if I do what I did for Tokyo and what I did for Paris, if I keep doing the same thing, then the sport will leave me behind," he said. "I need to think about how I can improve and, excitingly, that means that I can work on my run again, which has been something I haven't been able to do for the last five years. "That stuff has really kept me motivated and kept me excited and I think, fundamentally, if you still have that energy and that excitement towards the sport, then it's a really positive thing." Yee says keeping his body healthy and his mind fresh are the key ingredients for future success, but a more holistic approach has replaced a traditional multi-year, detailed training plan. "I would say my roadmap is mainly about the person I want to be in, the mindset I want to be in," he said. "I feel like there is so much more I can deliver and improve on. Then I can stand on that start line and say, 'yeah, I've done everything I can' and I can be proud, no matter the result, of the person I've become on the journey." (Reporting by Mitch Phillips, Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
Straits Times
15 hours ago
- Sport
- Straits Times
Triathlon-Olympic champion Yee mixing things up to stay fresh for assault on LA 2028
LONDON - Alex Yee is already the most successful athlete in Olympic triathlon history and to give himself the best chance of adding to his medals in Los Angeles 2028 the Briton is mixing marathons with high-adrenaline Supertri to keep him fresh in mind and body. Yee's extraordinary late surge to overcome Hayden Wilde and snatch gold in Paris was one of the great moments of the Games. It came after he took silver in Tokyo alongside a gold in the Mixed Relay, adding bronze in that team event in 2024. Still only 27, Yee's goal is to match compatriot Alistair Brownlee by successfully defending his title in LA, but, having been putting his body through the relentless training needed for success across three sports since his teens, he has taken a different approach this year. After adding the 2024 world title to his Olympic haul over the 1,500m swim, 40km bike, 10km run distance, Yee threw himself into his first marathon and duly clocked an impressive two hours, 11.08 minutes to finish 14th at the London Marathon in April. "It was a very special period and allowed me to take a step back from my triathlon training and look at things a little bit differently to see how I could improve," Yee told Reuters in an interview. "I think for me to be able to take that small step away but still be working very much within the context of getting better within triathlon was very exciting but it was also the fact I was able to race one of my dream races, which I grew up leaning over the barriers and watching as a fan after racing the mini marathon." This weekend Yee goes to the other end of the speed spectrum when he races the Toronto leg of Supertri, the fast and furious multi-lap format that features three back-to-back rounds of 300m swim, 4km bike and 1.6km run with eight transitions. 'EXCITING FORMAT' "It's an exciting format for people to watch, it's developing our sport and evolving it and it's something which I want to be part of," he said. "With those races everything comes at you so fast that the mistakes are often magnified and as a result you actually have that really short-term opportunity to learn three times rather than it being one big hit and then you move on. "It might be a very small thing, maybe you miss your buckle on your helmet and then the next thing you know the pack's gone. It's all those little nuances which make up Supertri and make it exciting." Those "marginal gains" picked up from different formats and building marathon endurance are key to Yee's bid for more gold in LA, when the individual triathlon medals will be won on the first two days of the Games. "The sport has evolved and I know if I do what I did for Tokyo and what I did for Paris, if I keep doing the same thing, then the sport will leave me behind," he said. "I need to think about how I can improve and, excitingly, that means that I can work on my run again, which has been something I haven't been able to do for the last five years. "That stuff has really kept me motivated and kept me excited and I think, fundamentally, if you still have that energy and that excitement towards the sport, then it's a really positive thing." Yee says keeping his body healthy and his mind fresh are the key ingredients for future success, but a more holistic approach has replaced a traditional multi-year, detailed training plan. "I would say my roadmap is mainly about the person I want to be in, the mindset I want to be in," he said. "I feel like there is so much more I can deliver and improve on. Then I can stand on that start line and say, 'yeah, I've done everything I can' and I can be proud, no matter the result, of the person I've become on the journey." REUTERS
The Star
a day ago
- General
- The Star
Monsoon drain turns into dumping ground in Pusat Bandar Utara Selayang
The damaged guard rails along a monsoon drain in the back lane of Jalan 2/3a in Pusat Bandar Utara Selayang, Kuala Lumpur. A MONSOON drain along the back lane of Jalan 2/3a in Pusat Bandar Utara Selayang, Kuala Lumpur, has been turned into a dumping ground for unsold vegetables and other waste from nearby shops. Community activist Yee Poh Ping claimed that the guard rails along the drain, which runs parallel to Jalan Kuching, had been damaged by irresponsible people in the area to make it easier to dump waste there. 'Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) had previously fixed the guard rails but the rails have since been damaged again. 'The rubbish would remain in the drain when the water level is not high enough to wash it away. 'The unsold vegetables then emit a bad odour once they become rotten. 'These vegetables could have been sold to farms to be used as livestock feed or turned into fertiliser,' he pointed out. Yee said there was not enough roll-on roll-off (RoRo) bins in the commercial area for the amount of waste generated. 'The present RoRo bins are located about four streets away, making it inconvenient for traders on Jalan 2/3a to dump their waste properly. 'The Solid Waste and Public Cleansing Management Corporation (SWCorp) should consider putting two to three extra RoRo bins at Jalan 2/3a. 'It must also make sure that concession company Alam Flora Sdn Bhd, which is responsible for public cleansing work in Kuala Lumpur, collects rubbish from the bins every day,' said Yee. He said a lack of civic-mindedness among people was one of the reasons behind the improper waste disposal in the commercial area. 'In 2023, SWCorp distributed about 1,000 rubbish bins to shops in the commercial area. 'It also instructed Alam Flora to clean the streets daily. 'Though the situation has improved slightly, it is still not up to the mark. 'Many people here still do not care about cleanliness around their premises,' he added. During a visit, StarMetro found that a lot of rubbish was dumped by the roadside and in the monsoon drain. Yee said he had urged DBKL and SWCorp to work together to solve the issue. 'I suggested they instal closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to monitor the area's cleanliness. 'The business owners should also educate their workers on being more responsible and civic-minded when it comes to cleanliness around their shops,' he added. DBKL and SWCorp did not comment on the matter as of press time.
