THIS year's survey of the top-100 listed companies shows that Bursa Malaysia's heavyweights have been making good progress in growing their revenue after the financial crisis of 2008/2009. However, profitability wise, very little has changed from a year ago, indicating that the economic recovery is still at an early stage and fragile. Still there have been some that have bucked the trend like budget carrier AirAsia Bhd. Find out who are the others who have registered robust revenue and profitability The research was done by Editorial Executive Norasyida Abdul Rahim, who had to sieve through the data of hundreds of companies, while News Editor Gurmeet Kaur analysed the data. Like previously, we include sub-listings on the highest revenue and highest profit, biggest change in net profit, ...
DATUK Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman, founder of Rahim & Co international property consultants, and his daughter Alisa M Rahim tell SHARMILA VALLI NARAYANAN about the importance of gaining the trust and respect of colleagues in successfully running a family business. DATUK Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman started his company more than 30 years ago with his savings of RM10,000, a loan of RM30,000 and a staff of four, one of whom was his wife. Today, the company has 15 offices nationwide, two overseas offices in Shenzhen and Hong Kong and more than 200 affiliated offices worldwide through a longstanding association with Savills, an international property consultancy.
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-donated medicines and pharmaceutical supplies meant to keep the new Afghan army and police healthy have been disappearing before reaching Afghan military hospitals and clinics, and the government said it is removing the army's top medical officer from his post as part of an investigation into alleged corruption. Afghan Defense Minister Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak told The Associated Press that Surgeon General Ahmad Zia Yaftali was being removed from his post as part of the inquiry. Three officials from the country's top medical facility, Dawood National Military Hospital in Kabul, have been fired, he said.
A couple of months earlier, Ahamat Ullha Zarif, a top Afghan judge for the new U.S.-backed government, explained the differences between the old and new justice systems. "The Taliban used to hang the victim's body in public for four days," he recalled. Not anymore. "We will only hang the body for a short time, say 15 minutes." Adulterers were stoned to death under the Taliban legal system, which was based on strict Sharia, or Islamic law. They still would be, Judge Zarif explained, "But we will use only small stones. Afghanistan's top law-enforcement official is Abdul Rahim Karimi. As justice minister, he reports directly to [Hamid Karzai], who was installed as president by the Bush Administration in December 2001. From the beginning, Karimi insisted that the Afghan version of Sharia-t...
DIRECTORS of listed companies are earning more than before. Our survey of Malaysia's highest-paid directors reveal that close to half the 630 companies on the list paid their highest-ranking directors more than RM1 million in remuneration in 2010. On the whole, these companies paid out a total of RM1.97 billion to their directors up from RM1.80 billion a year ago. For the top-20 companies alone, the total payout to board members was RM455.6 million, up 22%. News Editor Gurmeet Kaur analyses what Malaysia's top executives earn. The survey, researched meticulously by Norasyida Abdul Rahim, also reveals directors' remuneration from a sectoral perspective and what GLCs' key directors earn. mb-e Section Editor Mior Azhar looks at what ACE Market top earners draw.
Decades of violence and border closures in the Palestinian territories have resulted in major health problems, including malnutrition, stunted growth in children and high infant mortality rates, according to Dr. Hanan Abdul Rahim's report in the Lancet. Studies completed even before the recent attack on Gaza illustrated the traumatic effects that witnessing brutally violent acts can have on children, resulting in "behavioral problems, fears, speech difficulties, anxiety, anger, sleeping difficulties, lack of concentration at school, and difficulties in completing homework.
The Calgary, Canada-bom [Abdul]-rahim runs one of several Middle Eastern-accented t-shirt businesses that have sprung up in saucy retort to the outpouring of anti-Muslim sentiment in years after 9/11. From Rootsgear's "100 percent Randomly Searched at the Following Airports" (followed by a map of U.S. airports) and casualdisobedience.com's "Enemy Combatant" tees, to the lighter "Lebanese Princess," and "Allah's Little Angel," they are getting their message across. Every store that sold t-shirts was selling 'Everyone loves an Asian girl', 'Latin girl', 'Italian' and 'Irish Girl'," said [Dalia Ghanem], 29, who has a degree in textile design and develops prints and patterns for a New York fashion company. "I wanted one that said 'Everyone loves an Arab girl!' "Every store that sold t-shi...
...Neither Ghanem nor Abdulrahim has received any deadly fatwas as a result of thei...
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