Japan is facing a shortage of Japanese language teachers for foreign workers as the country prepares to introduce a new worker acceptance system next April.
Luno Malaysia, Halogen Capital and Kenanga Investors are exploring UMYR, a ringgit-pegged stablecoin for settling tokenised money market fund transactions.
Kopi Kenangan CEO Edward Tirtanata is increasing his stake in the coffee chain, partly by buying shares from early team members. Existing backers Alpha JWC, Tybourne and Horizons are also adding to their positions.
Boost has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tencent Cloud covering cloud infrastructure, AI and super app technology across Malaysia and Indonesia. Financial terms were not disclosed.