Archive for December, 2021
Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin is pushing very hard to amend the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act (Act 342). Even PM Ismail Sabri has used his power to extend the current Dewan Rakyat (Lower House) sitting for another day just to allow the controversial amendments to be debated. In fact, the government is so […]
... written on Dec 16 2021XAG (formerly known as XAircraft), a Guangzhou-based manufacturer of agricultural drones, is sending robots and drones to rice, wheat and cotton fields to do something unimaginable by aging farmers – automating seeding, pesticide spraying and weather monitoring. Last month, it launched V40 and P40 Agricultural Drone that can conduct mapping, spraying, and broadcast on the […]
... written on Dec 15 2021Ismail Sabri was known as one of the clueless and incompetent ministers even before the UMNO-led Barisan Nasional government was defeated in the May 2018 General Election. From his desire for turtle eggs to the half-baked MARA Digital Mall and from skyrocketing food prices to declaring December 3 as “Batik Day”, he has absolutely no […]
... written on Dec 13 2021Stories of people given more than 1 dose of Covid-19 vaccine were aplenty. For example, a nurse in Italy mistakenly administered 6 doses of Pfizer Coronavirus vaccine to a 23-year-old Italian woman in May this year. Apparently, the nurse was said to have suffered something called an “attention lapse” – a distraction due to an […]
... written on Dec 12 2021Based on the verdict delivered by the Court of Appeal on Wednesday (8 Dec), former Prime Minister Najib Razak is as guilty as hell. Judge Abdul Karim Abdul Jalil, who was leading the three-man bench, not only upheld Najib’s conviction, but also laughed and ridiculed the ex-PM’s claims that he (despite stealing money) was acting in […]
... written on Dec 10 2021Omicron, the latest variant of Covid-19 has now spread to 57 countries, according to the WHO (World Health Organization). For now, however, Delta is still the dominant variant, particularly in the U.S. and Europe. But the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has predicted that the Omicron could become the dominant variant in Europe […]
... written on Dec 09 2021Signs of trouble for former Prime Minister Najib Razak were as clear as daylight about 24 hours before a three-member Court of Appeal was scheduled to deliver its verdict today (8 December, 2021). Najib’s defence team suddenly wanted to add more evidence in his appeal at the eleventh hour, something quite extraordinary and obviously another […]
... written on Dec 08 2021When Malaysian economy contracted by 4.5% in the third quarter of 2021, lower than Bloomberg’s estimation of -1.9% and Reuters’ -1.3%, it spoke volume about the consequences of multiple half-baked lockdowns imposed by the Muhyiddin government. Because of the two consecutive GDP contractions (1.9% in 2Q21 and 3.6% in 3Q21), the country is in technical […]
... written on Dec 07 2021As the 15th General Election approaches, the racist and extremist politicians have started shifting gears in their usual comical contest to become the Malay champions. The goal is, or course, to hoodwink the gullible ethnic Malays. Unlike previously, this round will see three Malay political parties – UMNO, Bersatu and PAS – fighting tooth and […]
... written on Dec 05 2021From Malaysia to the United States and from Australia to India, more countries have reported their first cases of the latest Coronavirus variant – Omicron. However, chances are the variant has already spread domestically by the time those countries announced the first case. For example, New York City reported 5 cases just hours after infections […]
... written on Dec 03 2021
