June 13, 2010 | The Star, Malaysia
RM750,000 grant for 50 poor Indian students

KUALA LUMPUR: 1Malaysia Development Bhd has awarded grants totalling RM750,000 to poor Indian students for their studies in local universities. More ...

May 26, 2010 | New Straits Times, Malaysia
Medical Scholarship For Religious School Students
By Farrah Naz Karim

PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday awarded the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scholarship to 17 top students of religious schools in the country to study medicine in Egypt. More ...

May 15, 2010 | The Star, Malaysia
Qatar keen to pump in RM16bil in investments

PUTRAJAYA: The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) has proposed to invest US$5bil (about RM16bil) in Malaysia. More ...

Feb 25, 2010 | BERNAMA (Malaysian National News Agency)
Yayasan 1MDB Helps Out Students In Remote Areas Of Sarawak

Kanowit, February 25 (Bernama) -- Yayasan 1MDB has launched a programme to build or repair 13 rumah araus for primary schools in the interior of Sarawak. More ...

January 18, 2010 | The Edge Financial Daily
Mubadala Devt, 1MDB plan Malaysia's first carbon-neutral city
By Joseph Chin

KUALA LUMPUR: Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Development Company and 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) are teaming up to explore clean technology projects and investments, including the possibility of building Malaysia's first carbon-neutral city. More ...

January 12, 2010 | Business Times
1Malaysia, China giant to pump billions into Sarawak Corridor
By Hamisah Hamid

1Malaysia Development Bhd and State Grid Corp of China will set up a joint-venture company to pursue projects that would generate US$11 billion worth of economic value. More ...

January 12, 2010 | The Edge Financial Daily
1MDB, China utilities firm looking at US$11b within Sarawak's Score
By Ellina Badri

KUALA LUMPUR: 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) has signed a cooperation framework agreement with the state-owned State Grid Corp of China (SGCC) to start negotiations on setting up a joint-venture company to undertake projects in the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score). More ...

January 11, 2010 | BERNAMA (Malaysian National News Agency)
Yayasan 1MDB Formed To Manage RM100 Million CSR Fund

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Monday announced the establishment of Yayasan 1MDB (1MDB Foundation) to manage a RM100 million Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Fund. More ...

December 16, 2009 | The Star, Malaysia
Slow but steady headway
1MDB in the process of sealing big deals
By Anita Gabriel

IT'S been months since the inception of 1Malaysia Development Fund Bhd (1MDB) but truth is, the scrutiny (and scepticism to some extent) has been hard to completely shake off. More ...

December 14, 2009 | The Edge Malaysia
"We will forge strategic global partnerships to spur FDIs"

Starting with just five people, Shahrol Halmi, the managing director of 1Malaysia Development Bhd, now has a team of 33. Of this, more than half – 18 – are tasked with looking at various investment proposals. More ...

December 14, 2009 | The Edge Malaysia
Time of reckoning for 1MDB
By M. Shanmugam

Ever since 1Malaysia Development Berhad was born, skeptics have been taking potshots at the strategic development company. Its fundraising exercise, joint venture with a Saudi partner, and political underpinnings have all turned 1MDB into a target of constant criticisms. Can this vehicle prove its detractors wrong? Can it flourish and attract FDIs? More ...

October 1, 2009 | New Straits Times
RM8.71b boost
By Zaidi Isham Ismail and V. Vasudevan

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia and Saudi Arabia have set up a joint US$2.5 billion (RM8.71 billion) investment fund for oil and gas and real estate projects in both countries as well as abroad. More ...

July 21, 2009 | Bernama
Abu Dhabi mulls US$1b investment in Malaysia
By Abdul Muin Abdul Majid

ABU DHABI, July 21 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has announced a major initiative by the Abu Dhabi government whereby a sovereign wealth fund it wholly owns is set to make a US$1 billion investment in Malaysia in the energy, real estate and hospitality sectors. More ...