Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, or simply “Ahok”, the first ethnic-Chinese governor of Jakarta, was thrown into hot soup last year when he explained to Indonesian voters that his opponents had used a verse from the Quran / Koran to deceive voters, after conservative Islamist opponents quoted the verse warning against Muslims voting for non-Muslims (kafirs). […]
... written on Feb 08 2017The year 2016 is coming to its end, and clearly it hasn’t been a boring year. As the year of the Monkey, 2016 has brought many mischievous stories – from mass robbery, molest, rape and sexual assault in Cologne, to cheap crude oil, to global terrorist attacks, to 1MDB Ponzi Scheme, to unexpected British’s Brexit […]
... written on Dec 29 2016Maria Ladenburger was only 19 when she was raped and murdered. The medical student never returned home after she left a student party and cycled back at 2:37am on October 16, 2016. On October 18 her body was found on the river Dreisam. An autopsy revealed that Maria was brutally raped and then unconsciously thrown […]
... written on Dec 06 2016The world is in shock over the stunning victory by Donald Trump. He’s now President-Elect Donald Trump. But if one had read why Americans should vote Trump as the next president then one would not be surprised by today’s results. After all, Trump is a businessman, investor, author, TV personality, billionaire and anything but a […]
... written on Nov 10 2016SpacesX – founded by PayPal and Tesla tycoon Elon Musk – saw its Falcon 9 rocket went up in an epic fireball, just like one of those you watched in a James Bond movie. Ironically, Musk (the wizard who inspired the Iron Man movie) tweeted on Wednesday about improvements on Tesla Motors’ Autopilot System. The […]
... written on Sep 02 2016There is no such thing as a free lunch, and WhatsApp users are about to taste the price of sharing their supposedly private phone number, not that they have any choice in the first place. The last thing everyone enjoys is to have their phone being bombarded with online advertisements or worse – calls from strangers trying to […]
... written on Aug 26 2016Unless you’ve been living under the rock or under the spell of Rio 2016 Olympic for the last couple of days, you should know there’s an awesome app launched by Google. Meet “Google Duo”, a simple 1-to-1 video calling app for everyone – Android or iPhone. What, another boring video calling app? First, there […]
... written on Aug 21 2016Johor 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 2016
