Archive for September, 2017
Cash-rich China has been on a shopping spree snapping American assets. They had taken over at least 10 American iconic brands including Motorola, Waldorf Astoria, GE Appliances, Smithfield Foods and AMC Theatres. And they were about to add a 135-year-old Chicago Stock Exchange to their shopping cart – until they’re being stopped now. The […]
... written on Sep 29 2017Malaysia is the only country on planet Earth which has not one, not two but a jaw-dropping nine (9) monarchies. And if you care to add the “Yang di-Pertuan Agong” or simply the King, who is elected every 5 years among themselves, there are actually ten (10) monarchies in a country with population of only […]
... written on Sep 28 2017Soon, the jokes about Saudi Arabia being the only country on planet Earth where women were forbidden from getting behind the wheel of a car will be a thing of the past. For as long as one can remember, women in the kingdom have been discriminated and oppressed by the Saudi government and treated like […]
... written on Sep 27 2017Trump has shown to the world, again, how dumb a U.S. president could be if he tries hard enough. Donald Trump is so dumb that he probably didn’t realized that he had issued a declaration of war on North Korea when he went ballistic at his first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly last […]
... written on Sep 26 2017As anticipated, Angela Merkel’s CDU-CSU (Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union) alliance won the German election on Sunday. Although she is set to be re-elected as German chancellor for a 4th term in office, the woman who was blamed for welcoming over 1-million refugees – mostly Muslims – into the country has very little to celebrate. […]
... written on Sep 25 2017Dotard – that’s the jaw-dropping word unleashed by Kim Jong-un. Instead of a missile, the Switzerland-educated North Korean dictator fired a rarely used word at United States. Like North Korea ballistic missiles, the word was so deadly that Americans were scrambled for dictionaries. It surely sounds like “retard” so the actual meaning couldn’t be too […]
... written on Sep 25 2017Microsoft cut 4,000 jobs two months ago in July. If you think that was bad, wait until you hear tech giant Hewlett Packard’s (HP) plan. Despite recent Street-beating third-quarter results that saw the company’s stock jump 5%, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is planning to put thousands of its employees jobless – scheduled by year end – […]
... written on Sep 23 2017Debt is something that creeps on you slowly. It seems one day you owe out just a few thousand and the next time you add up the numbers you’re into the tens of thousands. If you’re living beyond your means like many Americans today, now is the time to reel in your spending and find […]
... written on Sep 22 2017Now do you understand why the Malaysian Chinese were foaming at the mouth when Prime Minister Najib Razak conspired with PAS (Malaysian Islamic Party) President Hadi Awang to introduce ancient Islamic law otherwise known as the “Hudud Law” last year? There were compelling reasons why the Chinese opposed the law which was supposed to have […]
... written on Sep 22 2017Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies were planning to launch a military invasion on Qatar before President Trump intervened and persuaded them otherwise – reported Bloomberg. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both Sunni-majority nations, wanted to change the Qatari regime, also another Sunni-majority nations, accusing it of aligning itself with Iran – the Shia / […]
... written on Sep 21 2017