Finance and Economy
OPEC unsurprisingly failed to agree on anything (*yawn*), despite market got very excited about a potential output ceiling. “Hope is a powerful weapon and no one power on earth can deprive you of.” – Nelson Mandela wrote in a letter to Winnie Mandela in 1969. But that’s what OPEC members and other non-OPEC oil producers could […]
... written on Jun 03 2016A key goal of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan is to increase the number of women in the workforce from 22% to 30%. The vision, which was announced by Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last month, is supposed to prepare the kingdom for an era in which it does not rely heavily on oil. There’s […]
... written on Jun 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 2016Mention Brunei and a country ruled by an absolute monarchist come to mind. Hassanah Bolkiah, the country’s 29th Sultan, is notorious for his fortune – estimated at US$20 billion as of 2008 (according to Forbes). He was once the world’s richest man but despite his brother Prince Jefri’s pilfering US$15 billion from sultanate, and the plunging […]
... written on Jun 01 2016Business needs branding and as a product or service becomes famous, a corporation requires a meaningful logo to represent the company’s identity. However, business changes with time hence the needs to change its logo. Naturally, logos would evolve in order to reflect such changes and we would sometimes laugh at a corporation’s past logos. Even […]
... written on May 31 2016If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all – goes the popular saying. But it appears Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is untouchable, in spite of international investigations and prosecutions over his gigantic 1MDB multi-billion-dollar-scandal. Naturally, a handful of bootlickers thought the time has arrived for them to start buttering Najib’s […]
... written on May 26 2016Her hairstyle makes you wonder if she’s a huge fan of Sailor Moon from Japanese shōjo manga series. Make no mistake though – 45-year-old Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao is on her way to become Southeast Asia’s first self-made woman billionaire. If her airline goes public (IPO) by selling 30% stake (scheduled in second quarter of […]
... written on May 25 2016On June 23, 2016, Britons will decide whether to leave the European Union (EU) or stay. Ahead of the UK referendum, however, fear mongers have been trumpeting the reasons (or rather myths) on why people should stay, or leave. Due to differences in “Brexit”, once-good-friends Boris Johnson and David Cameron have now turned on each […]
... written on May 24 2016United Kingdom was ranked 10th in Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index. Britons, however, should have little reasons to smile because their country is virtually as corrupt as Nigeria (ranked 136th) and Afghanistan (ranked 166th) for recognizing and happily rubbing shoulders with those corrupt leaders. Prime Minister David Cameron had his fair share of embarrassment […]
... written on May 20 2016If you can’t beat them, join them – goes the idiom. Perhaps that was what Pope Francis thought about fighting Islamic terrorism. In an interview with France’s La Croix on Tuesday, Pope Francis seemed to be asking people to embrace ISIS, because according to his logic, the Jihad waged by the radical Islamic terrorist is […]
... written on May 19 2016
