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PETALING JAYA: MKH Oil Palm (East Kalimantan) Bhd (MKHOP) is acquiring a 100% stake in Indonesian oil palm plantation company, PT Tunas Tani Tutus for RM9.1mil. [1]

RANGOON — Britain’s BG Group and Australia’s Woodside Petroleum Ltd. will invest up to US$1.08 billion to explore for oil and gas in four blocks off the coast of Burma’s western Arakan State, a senior Energy Ministry official said on Sunday. [2]

MUMBAI -- India's largest energy explorer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp., plans to spend over $3 billion in developing the Farzad-B natural gas block in Iran, as the world's fastest-growing economy looks to address its rising energy needs. [3]

TOKYO -- As a row with partner Western Digital blocks Toshiba from access to vital credit, banks committed to supporting the embattled conglomerate are pondering an unusual workaround. [4]

Looking back, my strongest connections with the executed activist Ko Jimmy, his wife Ma Nilar Thein and their young daughter all came at moments when their lives were in danger. [5]

Even as the focus seems to have momentarily shifted to the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees, all is certainly not well in the Rohingya camps in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. [6]

TOKYO -- Mitsui will invest roughly 84 billion yen ($560 million) to develop a gas field in southern Vietnam under a project led by the Southeast Asian nation's state oil company, the Japanese trading house announced Friday. [7]

Tourists crowd Lawachara rail line for photos, triggering safety concern 5 hour(s) ago Bangladesh Cumilla train-bus crash: Two railway crossing workers sued among others 5 hour(s) ago Accidents & Fires 32 inches tall, and making a strong stand 9 hour... [8]

Sources
[1] MY www.thestar.com.my · 2025-08-26 · 80% match

MKHOP acquires Indonesian greenfield estate PT Tunas Tani for RM9.1mil

PETALING JAYA: MKH Oil Palm (East Kalimantan) Bhd (MKHOP) is acquiring a 100% stake in Indonesian oil palm plantation company, PT Tunas Tani Tutus for RM9.1mil.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-03-23 · 75% match

Energy Firms BG, Woodside to Invest $1.1b in Burma Blocks: Official

RANGOON — Britain’s BG Group and Australia’s Woodside Petroleum Ltd. will invest up to US$1.08 billion to explore for oil and gas in four blocks off the coast of Burma’s western Arakan State, a senior Energy Ministry official said on Sunday.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-04-06 · 71% match

India's ONGC to invest over $3bn in Iran natural gas block

MUMBAI -- India's largest energy explorer, Oil and Natural Gas Corp., plans to spend over $3 billion in developing the Farzad-B natural gas block in Iran, as the world's fastest-growing economy looks to address its rising energy needs.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-05-19 · 56% match

Key lenders mull financing plan B for Toshiba

TOKYO -- As a row with partner Western Digital blocks Toshiba from access to vital credit, banks committed to supporting the embattled conglomerate are pondering an unusual workaround.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2022-09-01 · 46% match

Forged in Times of Danger: My Connection With Ko Jimmy and Ma Nilar Thein

Looking back, my strongest connections with the executed activist Ko Jimmy, his wife Ma Nilar Thein and their young daughter all came at moments when their lives were in danger.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2018-01-22 · 40% match

Rohingya Repatriation Futile Without a Strong Security Shield

Even as the focus seems to have momentarily shifted to the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees, all is certainly not well in the Rohingya camps in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-03-30 · 40% match

Vietnam gas field secures $560m investment from Japan's Mitsui

TOKYO -- Mitsui will invest roughly 84 billion yen ($560 million) to develop a gas field in southern Vietnam under a project led by the Southeast Asian nation's state oil company, the Japanese trading house announced Friday.

[8] MM thedailystar.net · 30% match

Bangladesh | The Daily Star

Tourists crowd Lawachara rail line for photos, triggering safety concern 5 hour(s) ago Bangladesh Cumilla train-bus crash: Two railway crossing workers sued among others 5 hour(s) ago Accidents & Fires 32 inches tall, and making a strong stand 9 hour

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