Archive for June, 2016
Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. He was “The Greatest”. Muhammad Ali, one of the world’s greatest boxers, died on Friday, June 3, at the age of 74. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, Ali started boxing at age 12 after his new bicycle was stolen and he vowed to policeman, Joe […]
... written on Jun 06 2016Last year, Prime Minister Najib Razak almost achieved what his father did back in 1969 – a bloody racial riot. We’re talking about Low Yat Crisis, of course, which was sparked by two young Malays involved in phone theft, but very quickly turned into a racial riot when the culprits returned with 6 more mobsters […]
... written on Jun 05 2016Brexit – British exit from EU – is very real and could happen after a referendum on June 23, roughly 3 weeks away. Unlike a referendum on Scottish independence which took place on 18 September 2014, the Brexit is different simply because the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England have been united since 1603, while […]
... written on Jun 03 2016OPEC unsurprisingly failed to agree on anything (*yawn*), despite market got very excited about a potential output ceiling. “Hope is a powerful weapon and no one power on earth can deprive you of.” – Nelson Mandela wrote in a letter to Winnie Mandela in 1969. But that’s what OPEC members and other non-OPEC oil producers could […]
... written on Jun 03 2016You might not know this but the British Broadcasting Corporation – BBC – has an interesting department. The post – BBC Head of Religion and Ethics – has seen Professor Aaqil Ahmed as the first Muslim to be appointed to the role in the BBC’s 87-year history. Understandably, when Mr Aaqil was appointed to the […]
... written on Jun 02 2016A key goal of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan is to increase the number of women in the workforce from 22% to 30%. The vision, which was announced by Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last month, is supposed to prepare the kingdom for an era in which it does not rely heavily on oil. There’s […]
... written on Jun 02 2016Are you a business owner who employs a battalion of staffs or workers? More importantly, do you, as a boss, believe that young workers produce higher productivity than older workers and in a process which you didn’t even realise, have practiced age discrimination against your older workers who had fought for your empire during the […]
... written on Jun 01 2016Mention Brunei and a country ruled by an absolute monarchist come to mind. Hassanah Bolkiah, the country’s 29th Sultan, is notorious for his fortune – estimated at US$20 billion as of 2008 (according to Forbes). He was once the world’s richest man but despite his brother Prince Jefri’s pilfering US$15 billion from sultanate, and the plunging […]
... written on Jun 01 2016
