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With the present crackdown on corruption in China by president Xi Jinping, the Great Wall is losing its shine as the most corrupt country in the world. Soon, a new nation will emerge to take over from the Chinese. For decades Malaysia has been trailing behind China, without much success, for the tro
Read Full StoryKarpal Singh dies aged 74, while Nik Aziz dies at 84. Lee Kuan Yew is now 91-years-old but he's very ill, and if one cares to look at a photo dated April 2014 between him and Sultan of Brunei, one cannot help but to express concern about a very thin Singapore's first prime minister. It was exactly h
Read Full StorySingapore Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam has announced a dreadful news for vehicle owners in his Budget 2015 speech on Monday (Feb 23) - petrol duty hikes. Effective yesterday (Feb 24), the tiny island's petrol will be pricier by S$0.20 (US$0.16, £0.10, RM0.53) fo
Read Full StoryISIS is known for their barbarism. But when they up the ante by showing a Jordanian pilot they were holding hostage being burned to death inside a locked cage, all hell breaks loose. The new level of brutality shown in the murder of First Lieutenant Muadh al-Kasasbeh shocks every single Jordanian, s
Read Full StoryWhat would have happened if a Proton top executive visits rival Perodua showroom, inspects the successful Alza and somehow broke the car's doors? Perodua would probably accuse Proton of spying on its technology and out of envy damage its car, deliberately. That would be a great badass marketing plan
Read Full StoryThe year of the "Green Wooden Goat" will officially kicks off on Thursday this week. The Lunar New Year is indeed the most important festival to the Chinese. Not only the celebration is about ushering in luck and fortune, it's also about showing off one's wealth to everybody - friends, family member
Read Full StoryNik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, or simply Nik Aziz, the spiritual leader of PAS has died, age 84. The Chempaka state assemblyman passed away at about 9:40pm yesterday, two days before the Valentine Day. PAS, one of three political parties within opposition Pakatan Rakyat (People Alliance), was led by the sp
Read Full StoryPresident Barack Obama is scheduled to give a keynote speech and have a private lunch with a select group of top executives on Friday (tomorrow). It's a cybersecurity summit where top executives from the technology industry are supposed to rub shoulders with each other and with the president, of cou
Read Full StoryWith great power comes great responsibility - says Uncle Ben, Spider Man's uncle. Today, the same quote is true to millions of credit and debit card holders. While many are still using conventional credit or debit cards which require manual swipe at counters, millions have taken the easy (and lazy)
Read Full StoryToday is the judgement day and the verdict is out - Anwar Ibrahim is guilty after Malaysian highest court convicted him for sodomy. But was the decision a surprise? Absolutely not. In actual fact, the writing (or rather the guilty verdict) was already on the wall the moment the largely known "Kangar
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