Malaysia's April factory output rises 8.2% on-year, fastest since 2022

KUALA LUMPUR ― Malaysia’s industrial production index rose 8.2 percent in April from a year earlier, its quickest pace in more than three years, government data showed on Friday. The rate surpassed the 4-percent growth forecast by economists surveyed in a Reuters poll, and was the fastest since September 2022, when the index ― which measures factory output from the manufacturing, mining and electricity generation sectors ― climbed 10.8 percent.The pace in April was driven by expansion in a