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There’s A New Salute For Oppressors – The Hunger Games “Three-Finger” Salute

Despite winning numerous awards earlier, it was the popular “The Hunger Games” film series which catapulted Jennifer Lawrence as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. The Hunger Games (2012) grossed US$691 million while the second The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) made US$864 million. The third film – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part […]

... written on Nov 21 2014

Official – Singaporeans Are Biggest ASEAN Online Spenders

Asians are perhaps the most conservative when come to e-commerce or simply online shopping. In the 1990s, before the dot com bubble burst, e-commerce was the buzzword that attracted tons of money, especially those companies listed on the Nasdaq. Today, such buzzword is as obsolete as dinosaurs. The so-called e-commerce has reached maturity. People simply […]

... written on Nov 20 2014

That’s Gorgeous Fjords – Norway Unveils The World’s Coolest Passport

After unveiled its new banknote series, easily the best money ever designed, Norway has unveiled yet another stylish design – passports. Much to the envy of non-Norwegian citizens around the globe, Norway’s National Police Directorate has announced that it’s selected a new “cool and beautiful” design for the nation’s passports, thanks to Oslo-based Neue Design Studio. With the […]

... written on Nov 19 2014

Stock Connect Between Hong Kong & Shanghai Opens, And It’s Tax-Free

Starting today, anybody can buy China stocks at the debut of an exchange link that allows Hong Kong and Shanghai investors to trade shares on each others’ bourses. Called “Stock Connect”, mainland Chinese can now trade shares in Hong Kong for the first time, while foreign investors in Hong Kong are allowed to buy and […]

... written on Nov 17 2014

Alibaba New Discovery – Women With Bigger Boobs Spend More

November 11 is China Singles’ Day or simply Bachelors’ Day. This day is, of course, different from Bachelor Night where a party is held for a man shortly before he enters marriage. Since it’s supposed to celebrate his “last night of freedom”, normally the man would do “naughty stuffs” together with his male friends (*grin*), […]

... written on Nov 14 2014

Foreign Exchange Scandal – 5 Big Banks Fined A Paltry US$3.3 billion

Five giant banks and US$3.3 billion – that’s how many players and the amount of penalty the global regulators are slapping them. In a latest financial scandal – British, American and Swiss regulators have found HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland (R.B.S.), JPMorgan Chase,  Citigroup and UBS guilty of manipulating the foreign currency markets. At stake […]

... written on Nov 12 2014

Google Takes Over NASA’s Space Field – Plans To Build Terminators?

Forget about Google’s search engine or driverless car projects. The company might have bigger secretive projects that could leapfrog mankind from the World Wide Web to the next quantum leap – space exploration and robotics. If “Terminator” robots take over the world soon, blame it on Google. Of course, after watching how Skynet became self-aware […]

... written on Nov 11 2014

After China Steel Cheaper Than Cabbage, Now U.S. Gasoline Cheaper Than Milk

Yesterday, we wrote about the happy and sad consequences as a result of US dollar bull run. Americans are cheering a stronger dollar for a simple reason that their purchasing power will be higher. It will cost them lesser for a vacation in Paris or Bangkok, for example. Since Americans don’t believe in saving, they […]

... written on Nov 05 2014

Dollar Bull Run Could Wreck Havoc In Asia, Particularly Malaysia

Forget about Islamic State militants, tumbling oil prices, China’s weakening economy, Japan’s recession, Germany’s slowing economic data and whatnot. There’s a new problem which will affect every single country on planet Earth. The US dollar has surged to a four-year high against a basket of currencies, breaching key technical resistance. The index – a mix […]

... written on Nov 04 2014

UK’s New Transparency – Pie Chart Statement On Taxpayers Money Spending

After Scotland failed to get its independence, Britain prime minister David Cameron was relieved that his job is secured, at least for now. But his real problem is UKIP – UK Independence Party – the rising star that almost every Briton calls the real patriotic party worth voting for. Basically, the country has gone to […]

... written on Nov 03 2014









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