So many products sold in Malaysia are similar. Chinese generic products rebranded to sound like Western products. Some will even claim German/Italian/whatnot design & engineering. I give you some examples:

Elba
Faber
Morgan
Cornell
Takada
Nippon
Rubine
Sorento

Its big business. There is a big company in Bandar Menjalara which is primarily doing for very long and they sell multiple brands, so whichever you choose to buy its still their product.

Yeah, Pensonic is decent when compared to the rebranded China stuff. Khind is also quite decent and reliable.
Unfortunately some good brands stopped making certain products due to margin erosion & competition from low-end products. Panasonic who used to make good quality big kettles, stopped making them. I recently bought a Pensonic kettle too because everything else available are rebranded china stuff which I don't dare to buy. So it was down to Khind & Pensonic.

Why surprising? So many popular brands in Malaysia are the same, just that they are now big companies doing big scale rebranding of multiple brands instead of just one. They all started small initially.

Within 1 year should be under warranty ma?
Anyway, for kettle since Panasonic no longer makes them, can buy Pensonic or Khind - both are Malaysian brands which are much better than generic rubbish from PRC.