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Apple’s co-founder, Steve Jobs, once declared to the world that using a stylus with a computing device was a sign of passé – outdated and failure. He said that 5-years ago, and he’s now dead. His successor, Tim Cook, has no reason to follow a dead man’s rule when he’s under the pressure to deliver […]
... written on Sep 10 2015It’s all over the international news. Not happy with negative news stacked against the country – 1MDB’s RM42 billion and RM2.6 billion scandals – the country has added another shameful episode, just a week after Prime Minister Najib Razak went into hiding instead of confronting 1,000 delegates from 130 countries at IACC Conference. Just […]
... written on Sep 09 2015Malaysia is largely self-sufficient in poultry meat production. Eggs and chicken are among the cheapest and mostly consumed protein staples in the country. Almost 90% of production occurs in Peninsular Malaysia, with the remaining in East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia has about 3,200 broiler farms, which includes contract and independent farmers, as well as large vertically integrated […]
... written on Sep 09 2015Born on the 21st of April, 1926, British Queen Elizabeth II is an 89-year-old great-grandmother. She’s 1-year younger than 90-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Malaysia. You may call her Queen Elizabeth, Your Majesty or simply the Queen. But her official title is a mind-boggling 176 characters long. Here’s her full title – […]
... written on Sep 08 2015Pro-UMNO Red Shirts want to rally despite police saying “No”. Apparently, these supposedly very influential and million-members-club thugs wanted to show off that they can also mobilise at least 300,000 to the street, in retaliation to the Bersih 4.0 yellow-shirts mega rally, which itself claimed had attracted 500,000 people during a 34-hour rally recently. […]
... written on Sep 07 2015Previously, you’ve read how two Filipino divers deliberately and spectacularly scored “Zero” during the 2015’s 28th Southeast Asian Games in Singapore, so that the “Splash Brothers” could embarrass the Philippines sport authorities into splashing money. Now, there’s something equally bizarre happening in Egypt. Egyptian Maryam Malak had achieved nearly perfect marks in previous years, […]
... written on Sep 07 2015Syria is in a mess and with Vladimir Putin’s latest admission that Russian military are putting boots on the ground in Syria, things could get really ugly. For the first time, Putin isn’t shy about telling all and sundry that the Russia is providing “serious” training and logistical support to the Syrian army under the […]
... written on Sep 06 2015It was like a Hindustan movie – a businessman and a divorcee were madly in love. Unfortunately, the woman’s father didn’t like the man, most likely because he wasn’t rich or powerful enough. So, the father, who was then Deputy Tourism Minister, instructed his men to bring the guy who has stolen his daughter’s heart […]
... written on Sep 04 2015President Xi Jinping proudly displays the China’s military might – 12,000 Chinese soldiers, 500 pieces of hardware and almost 200 aircraft – in a huge military parade at Tiananmen Square on Thursday as Beijing commemorates the 70th anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat. As the China’s commander-in-chief by virtue of him as the chairman […]
... written on Sep 03 2015The way Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak hides every time there’s a remote chance people might ask about the allegation of him pocketing US$700 million, you may wonder if his favourite game during kindergarten and primary school was actually hide-and-seek. There’s little doubt he’s extremely good at this. I’m willing to bet my bottom […]
... written on Sep 02 2015
