Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected Malaysia's exports to have risen 3.5% from a year earlier in March and imports to have climbed 2.6%, resulting in a trade surplus of 14.2 ...

Malaysia's economy bounced back strongly from a pandemic-driven slowdown, growing 5.1% last year--up sharply from 3.6% in 2023--and has managed to tame inflation. The economy had been on track to ...