Her eyes are transfixed as she struggles to prise away the powerful hand squeezing around her throat.

Glamorous TV cook Nigella Lawson looks stunned to be ­attacked by her art collector husband Charles Saatchi during a vicious row at their ­favourite London restaurant.

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Facebook has revealed it has 64 million users in Indonesia who actively access their accounts on a monthly basis and says this number puts the country in the social networking site’s top five largest markets.

It also plans to monetize this huge market by inviting small and medium-sized businesses to advertise on the popular site. “Those are our internal figures on monthly ‘actives’ as of March,” Dan Neary, Facebook vice president for Asia Pacific, said recently.

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YET again, the online media in Malaysia is under attack. One of the latest rebukes comes from Kelab Wartawan Muda Malaysia (KWMM) president Dzulkarnian Taib who wants the authorities to curb Malaysiakini, including shutting it down, because of its “lopsided” reporting.

Dzulkarnian is not alone in his views. Senior Barisan Nasional (BN) politicians have also lambasted the online media. Newly-minted Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for example, recently accused Malaysiakini of “spin”, “twisting statements” and “creating things which are not there”. He ominously warned the news portal that he would be monitoring it very closely.

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Bursa Malaysia needs to address Generation Y's low level of participation in the local stock market, which is below the global average, analysts say.

Their comments came on the eve of Invest Malaysia's ninth edition, organised by Bursa Malaysia, with a long-term aim of developing the country's capital market.

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DDB, one of the region’s most awarded creative agency networks, is cutting the amount it spends on awards entries by 30 per cent next year.

The Omnicom-owned agency, which is currently Campaign Asia Pacific’s regional creative agency of the year, is to invest the funds saved from not spending on awards on improving creative work and in creative talent instead, the network’s APAC boss John Zeigler said today.

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JULY 10 LISTING: Low-cost airline offering 700.12m shares at RM1.45 each.

AIRASIA X Bhd, the long-haul arm of AirAsia Group, is banking on retail market to help make its initial public offer (IPO) a success.

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P&G Indonesia’s Mr. Bambang Sumaryanto and P&G Malaysia’s Mr. Zulhaimi Abdul Hamid discusses with Forbes on P&G Indonsia and Malaysia’s CSR strategy and the impact of CSR activities on both the business bottom line as well as the society.

FORBES: Can you tell me about the country’s flagship CSR program more in details? How is your CSR strategy specifically catered the country that you are overseeing?

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PETALING JAYA: The operator of Pizza Hut Malaysia, QSR Brands (M) Holdings Sdn Bhd, is optimistic its Pizza Hut Delivery business will record a 10 per cent increase in sales to RM500 million this year.

QSR Brands Managing Director Datuk Ahmad Zaki Zahid said the Pizza Hut Delivery chain chalked up sales of RM450 million last year and enjoyed a market share of 65 per cent.

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Coca-Cola has launched a campaign to encourage people to share a can of the fizzy drink, which can literally be halved.

The idea to split a can – the top half can be twisted off – came from a combination of two agencies, the Singaporean and French offices of Ogilvy & Mather.

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With the legalization of marijuana in Washington, it was only a matter of time before someone swooped in to take grips of the green machine and use it for major profit. Jamen Shively, former Microsoft manager, plans to invest in starting the first national branding of marijuana.

According to The Stranger, the businessman wants to shell out $100 million over three years to build marijuana stores.

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