Johor crown prince Tunku Ismail Ibrahim was invited for evening tea over the weekend with Prime Minister Najib Razak, the same person the prince insulted roughly a year ago, calling him “a drowning man trying to reach and hold on to anything, including – ‘shit’“. So, what was actually cooking at the prime minister’s official […]
... written on Aug 15 2016Yahoo has finally sold itself away to Verizon Communications for merely US$4.83 billion. Only time will tell if the purchase is a great deal, or a waste of money. Verizon, America’s biggest wireless company, plans to merge Yahoo with AOL, a company it bought last year for a cool US$4.4 billion – cash. Clearly, […]
... written on Aug 02 2016Are you a business owner who employs a battalion of staffs or workers? More importantly, do you, as a boss, believe that young workers produce higher productivity than older workers and in a process which you didn’t even realise, have practiced age discrimination against your older workers who had fought for your empire during the […]
... written on Jun 01 2016Let us repeat this again. The President of the United States (POTUS) is not the most powerful man on planet Earth. The man who controls the news media is. News media, be it the print, electronic or social media, can make or break a president. Although traditional print and electronic media have been ganging up […]
... written on May 13 2016If social media creativity is an indicator, Malaysia should have had many Steve Jobs or at least some international brands such as Samsung, if not better. Government’s policy of racism, discrimination and systematic degradation of national education system, however, has produced a society with poor critical thinking skills. The Government of Malaysia, dominated by […]
... written on Mar 10 2016Politics and business make lousy bedfellows as do politics and sports as well as politics and family matters. But in a cowboy town like Malaysia where everything is mixed like “Rojak“, it doesn’t really matter. The family of Razak has done it, again, after the senior Prime Minister Najib Razak shocked the world with the […]
... written on Mar 08 2016After more than a year in development and testing, Facebook has expanded its popular “Like” button to include other “reactions”. Four days ago, people can see and choose “love,” “haha,” “wow,” “sad,” and “angry” gesture. There’s no “Dislike” button as requested because Facebook claims that the new mix of reactions has proven popular with users during […]
... written on Feb 28 2016Germany survived two world wars but it can’t survive Merkel. That joke is slowly becoming a reality as frustrated Germans have taken to the Facebook, forming “Dusseldorf is Watching” group, and so far has recruited 4,000 members, and counting. Their slogan – “One for All, and All for One”. Their mission – “To Protect Our Ladies Future”. […]
... written on Jan 08 2016Dubai, with a population of roughly 2-million, is the largest city of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and has worked tirelessly to build itself as a major financial hub, investment destination and major tourist magnet. To be precise, it weren’t the people of Dubai but the lowly paid foreign South Asian workers, mostly from India, […]
... written on Jan 02 2016The threat to the Christianity must be very real for the Archbishop of Canterbury to issue a warning on Christmas Day that the religion is facing “elimination” in the Middle East at the hands of an Islamic State (ISIS) “apocalypse”. The Most Reverend Justin Welby called the Islamist extremists as “a Herod of today” – a reference […]
... written on Dec 27 2015
