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The Debt Trap Of 2026 Commonwealth Games – Malaysia A Sucker If Bails Out Australia As New Host

Malaysia is being offered £100 million pounds to host the 2026 Commonwealth Games. That looks like a jackpot given on a silver platter. Even the Taylor Swift’s just concluded exclusive concert in Singapore in the Southeast Asian leg of her Eras Tour looked lame compared to this international sports event involving 74 Commonwealth nations and […]

... written on Mar 16 2024

U.S. Tries To Force ByteDance To Sell TikTok Again – But There’s No Way In Hell China Will Allow The Sale

TikTok has about 170 million users in the United States, its biggest market outside of China. Its revenue was around US$20 billion last year. Founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Zhang Yiming, TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly had a private valuation of between US$105 billion and US$110 billion in May 2020, making it the most valuable start-up in […]

... written on Mar 15 2024

Conventional 5.5% vs. Syariah 5.4% Dividend – Suspicion Over Hanky-Panky In Diverting EPF Dividends To Syariah

For financial year 2023, the EPF (Employees’ Provident Fund) or KWSP has announced higher dividend for both Conventional savings (5.5%) and Syariah savings (5.4%). In previous year (2022), EPF had declared 5.35% and 4.75% dividend rates for Conventional and Syariah respectively. However, despite higher dividends for last year, suspicion arose over its distributions.   While […]

... written on Mar 05 2024

Taylor Swift’s S$500 Million Economic Impact – How Singapore Cleverly Got An Exclusive Deal For The Pop Star

As neighbouring Malaysia was plagued with dangerous religious extremism, where radical Islamist is known to calling for protest on foreign artists, as well as government officials introducing weird rules at the eleventh hour, Singapore saw a huge potential in concert as magnet to boost tourism. Clearly, event tourism is something which Malaysia doesn’t understand.   […]

... written on Mar 02 2024

Here’s How China’s Homegrown C919 Plane Could Gobble Up 20% Market Share Of Boeing And Airbus

Flying for the first time outside mainland China, state-owned planemaker COMAC proudly showed off its C919 and ARJ21 commercial aeroplanes at the Singapore Airshow – held between Feb 20 to 25. The Chinese homegrown planes raised eyebrows and caught the attention of thousands of audience at a time when two largest plane manufacturers – Boeing […]

... written on Feb 24 2024

Breaching RM4.80, Ready To Hit RM5 – Ringgit Screwed Whether U.S. Hikes Rate Or China Cuts Rate

Making money in the forex (foreign exchange) is quite easy – just listen to research firms such as MIDF or Malaysian Industrial Development Finance, and bet the opposite. Led by a bunch of clueless management and researchers, the firm that specializes in development finance, investment banking, and asset management provides the best advice for investors to […]

... written on Feb 21 2024

Destabilizing China In Xinjiang – Top-5 Reasons Why The U.S. Pretends To Be Concerned About Uighurs

Last August, despite US-led Western nations’ relentless efforts in accusing Beijing of human rights violations against Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a stop in Xinjiang during his return trip to the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa and announced that a “beautiful Xinjiang” will continue to be built as part of […]

... written on Feb 17 2024

Tesla Disaster – Owners Stranded As “Dead Robots” Won’t Charge In Freezing Temperature, But China Has The Solution

Elon Musk has decided to do what he does best every time the demand for Tesla electric cars plunge – cut prices. With competition heating up over the past year, especially against BYD, a Chinese carmaker which is backed by legendary investor Warren Buffet, Tesla welcomes the New Year 2024 with more price cuts for […]

... written on Jan 19 2024

BYD Beats Tesla Again – How The U.S. Carmaker Lost Its Crown As World’s Top Electric Vehicles Manufacturer

As expected and predicted, Chinese car giant BYD has beaten Tesla for a second straight year as the world’s top seller of electric cars. The sales figures for the final quarter of 2023 showed that the American company produced 494,989 vehicles (delivering only 484,507). However, for the first time, the Chinese company sold 526,409 vehicles (excluding hybrid and commercial […]

... written on Jan 04 2024

Sanction My Foot! – Russia Makes A Mockery Of Western Oil Sanctions, While China & India Laugh All The Way To The Bank

Entering 2024, Russia’s position in the global oil markets remains largely unchanged despite Western financial and economic sanctions. Even the price cap of US$60 a barrel on Russian oil – desperately introduced by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen – has little effect on the Kremlin. That’s because oil demand did not change. The only changes are […]

... written on Dec 30 2023









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