Crisis
For many years, Malaysia has been ignoring claims on Sabah, a Malaysian state in the northern part of the island of Borneo, by the heirs of the Sulu Sultanate – till the spectacular seizure of Petronas assets in Azerbaijan worth US$2 billion (RM8.9 billion) about a week ago. Petronas, the national oil company, has total […]
... written on Jul 20 2022Russia-Ukraine conflict has indeed wrecked havoc around the world. After Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost their jobs, partly due to the Ukraine war, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi became the third casualty who resigned on Thursday (July 14) due to a disagreement over how to respond to the […]
... written on Jul 16 2022Ringgit does not seem to be in a good position. The Malaysia currency is trading at more than 4.43 to a dollar – the lowest for the year, having plunged from 4.16 in January 1. Technically, its resistance is 4.50 – less than RM0.07 away. The last time the currency was trading at this low […]
... written on Jul 13 2022Zelensky has just sacked Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, India, Norway, Hungary and Czech Republic. The stunning mass firing has raised eyebrows because one of the envoys – Andriy Melnyk – had served in Germany for 7 years. No explanation was offered for the dismissal, but Zelensky has urged his diplomats to drum up international support […]
... written on Jul 11 2022Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving prime minister (Sept 2006 – Sept 2007 and Dec 2012 – Sept 2020), was pronounced dead on Friday (July 8) after five and a half hours after he was assassinated while campaigning for political candidate Kei Sato in the southern city of Nara for a parliamentary election – about 300 miles […]
... written on Jul 08 2022When the U.S. sneezes, the world catches a cold. However, with China’s economic rise, the world could also catch a cold when China sneezes. The world quickly learns the impact of China shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Negative global spillover from falling industrial and manufacturing activity in China could trigger retrenchment, inflation or even recession. Since […]
... written on Jul 04 2022Unelected backdoor Prime Minister Ismail Sabri could easily keep his job after the next 15th General Election – by playing dumb and delay the election till Najib Razak is sent to jail and Zahid Hamidi is convicted. His biggest and immediate threat – Najib and Zahid – must be neutralized if the turtle-egg man does […]
... written on Jul 01 2022Since Russia launched its so-called “special military operation” to de-Nazify Ukraine on February 24, nobody pays any attention to Kaliningrad, a small piece of land sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland. It was only after Lithuania decided last week (June 18) to ban the transit of goods through its territory to Kaliningrad that the world attention […]
... written on Jun 26 2022After some uncertainties and U-turns, the White House has confirmed President Joe Biden’s first trip to the Middle East, including a stop in Saudi Arabia. The trip, scheduled from July 13 to 16, will see the U.S. Commander-in-Chief meets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the same man the U.S. intelligence said is linked to […]
... written on Jun 19 2022From the beginning, the United States have been using Ukraine as its proxy to fight Russia. Unlike its previous war against Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, the U.S. dares not go to war with Russia this time. Biden administration could only provide weapons, leaving the Ukrainians fight the war themselves. Sending Americans to Ukraine to […]
... written on Jun 15 2022
