KUALA LUMPUR (May 23): Malaysia’s international reserves rose 0.4% as of May 15 this year from a fortnight earlier, the central bank said on Thursday.

Foreign exchange reserves totalled US$113.3 billion compared to US$112.8 billion at the end of April, Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) said in a statement.

The position is sufficient to finance 5.4 months of imports of goods and services, and is one time the total short-term external debt, it added.

BNM releases data on foreign exchange reserves every two weeks.