Tourism development will continue to be given due attention by the Pakatan Harapan (PH)-led government in view of the industry's significant contribution to the nation's economy, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said.

She said the industry had become the second largest foreign exchange earner for the country with 25.9 million tourist arrivals and RM82.2 billion in tourism revenue last year.

Southeast Asia’s first robot for material handling, inventory management, metal bending and metal cutting became the highlight of a visit by Johor State International Trade, Investment and Utility Committee Chairman Jimmy Puah Wee Tse to a foreign-owned factory in Frontier Industrial Park here.

Puah had stopped by Hup Fatt Brothers Engineering Sdn Bhd (HFBE) during his working visit last week to Frontier, a pioneer in the Gated, Guarded and Regulated (GGR) concept in Desa Cemerlang developed by WB Land Sdn Bhd.

Standard Chartered Saadiq Bhd is on the right track to being a digital bank with a human touch, with nearly half of all its’ clients embracing digital services for their banking needs.

Of Saadiq’s total client base, 45% use digital banking; and of these, 90% of their transactions are done digitally, via online or mobile banking, self-service ATMs and branch straight-through-processing, or branch automation.