KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — Malaysia’s trade performance will continue its momentum in March 2021, while imports are expected to continue picking up as domestic demand returns with the movement control order ending early this month, said Moody’s Analytics.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Malaysia’s trade surplus soared by 38.0 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) to RM16.6 billion in January 2021, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM).

HANOI, Feb 15 — Exports from six Southeast Asian countries fell 2.2 per cent in 2020 from a year earlier to a combined US$1.35 trillion, a relatively marginal decline despite Covid-19, reported Vietnam News Agency (VNA) according to data from the Japan External Trade Organisation (Jetro).

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 — Malayan Flour Mills Bhd (MFM) will increase its halal poultry product offerings in the country, especially in the further processed poultry segment, as well as exporting to demand markets via its partnership with a United States-based company Tyson Foods, Inc.

HANOI, Jan 14 — Trung An High-Tech Agriculture Joint Stock Company will export 1,600 tonnes of high-value fragrant rice to Singapore and Malaysia, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development announced on January 13.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 — The Malaysian government and palm oil industry players will continue to work hand-in-hand to guarantee that palm oil is sustainably produced and recognised as such around the globe, said the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) chairman Datuk Osman Sapian.

SEOUL, Dec 21 — South Korean exports of instant noodles jumped more than 28 per cent in the first 11 months of the year amid the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27 — Malaysia’s trade surplus in October 2020 widened to RM22.12 billion, registering a double-digit growth of 25.9 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) and was the highest trade surplus ever recorded for the month.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 22 — Malaysia Airlines Bhd has continued its rescue and repatriation mission, transporting stranded citizens back to their home countries amid the recovery movement control order (RMCO) in the country, as well as conditional MCO in certain states.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 — The Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (Matrade) helped 13,813 local companies penetrate the global market during the 2015-2019 period through 466 export promotion activities and exporter development programmes, the Dewan Negara was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 — Malaysia’s rubber gloves exports grew by 50.1 per cent to RM15.06 billion for the January-July 2020 period from RM10.03 billion in the same period last year, said the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

BANGKOK, July 24 — Thailand's exports in June dropped by a bigger-than-expected 23.17 per cent from a year earlier, the weakest pace since July 2009, as the coronavirus pandemic hit global demand, the commerce ministry said on Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — The export and import unit value indices shrank by 1.7 per cent and 1.2 per cent month-on-month (m-o-m) to 114.1 points and 114.8 points, respectively, in April 2020, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 4 — The Covid-19 pandemic, which has caused major disruptions to the global supply chain, has dragged Malaysia to record a trade deficit of RM3.5 billion in April 2020, after 269 consecutive months of surplus on account of higher contraction in exports compared to imports.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 — Malaysia’s natural rubber (NR) production in March declined 23.3 per cent to 35,961 tonnes from 46,881 tonnes in February.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — Exports of palm oil products had declined significantly by 34.8 per cent year-on-year (y-o-y) or 793,257 tonnes to 1.48 million tonnes during the movement control order (MCO) period up to April 14, from 2.28 tonnes recorded in the same period last year.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 29 — Port operators nationwide have been instructed to allow all import and export activities by companies which have been authorised to operate during the movement control order (MCO) by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry.