Finance and Economy
Emperor Napoleon once said this – “Let China Sleep, for when the Dragon awakes, she will shake the world.” Today, not only China has awaken, there seems to be very little superpower America can do to stop it from continuously growing. From the perspective of history, China has no intention of ruling the world. It’s pretty […]
... written on Aug 09 2016Since December 2008, Malaysia stock market has more than doubled (up 88% in U.S. dollar terms), until a “disaster strikes” the country. In fact, the rally in the Malaysian shares was the world’s longest bull market. Comparing to other stock markets, the KLCI (Kuala Lumpur Composite Index) has gone up the longest without a 20% […]
... written on Aug 06 2016Monkey see, monkey do – is a saying refers to the learning of a process without an understanding of why it works. If you ask former Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, he will gladly tell you such monkeys do exist in abundance – in the form of UMNO leaders throwing punches in the air in […]
... written on Aug 03 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 2016Donation is the buzzword for this year, both in the United States as well as Malaysia, but serving different purpose. In US, as temperature rises in the wake of Clinton-vs-Trump for the presidential general election this coming November, hundreds of millions of dollars are being pumped into campaigns to influence American voters. In the […]
... written on Aug 01 2016Looking for a new career? Even if you’re happy with your new job and have no intention to “jump ship”, it’s worthwhile to take a peek of the latest market offering for jobs similar to yours, or outside your field. It’s also useful to those who are not quite sure which school they should enroll […]
... written on Jul 27 2016By now every Ahmad, Ah Chong, Arumugam and his Pokemon know who the secret person with a call-sign “Malaysian Official 1” is. The hashtag #MalaysianOfficial1 has been trending since Thursday when the United States Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch officially filed in federal court seeking to seize more than US$1 billion in assets bought with money […]
... written on Jul 24 2016Najib Razak is in an awkward position. What this means is the Malaysian prime minister is like Chua Soi Lek, the former President of MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) who was forced to admit and subsequently resign after his sensational sex DVD scandal. Unlike Mr. Chua, however, Mr. Najib is a man who knew no shame. […]
... written on Jul 22 2016A high-speed rail (HSR) link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore isn’t something new which was hatched yesterday. The toy was in the discussion way back in the late 1990s, during former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad era. However, the 1997-1998 Asia Financial Crisis made it impossible to spend billions while both countries – especially Malaysia – […]
... written on Jul 20 2016Roughly 35,000 crossed the border on Saturday. Another 88,000 did the same on Sunday. Some had travelled in chartered buses from cities 10 hours away. Their mission: to buy food. What they have back home in their apartment is a fridge covered with souvenir magnets from vacations abroad, but no food. So when the […]
... written on Jul 19 2016
