Finance and Economy
The cost of living is a complicated subject. Unless you’re in a country such as UK where you can basically have free house, food, education and even luxury holidays under “benefits” without working for a day, you need to worry about the cost of living from the moment you leave school. You may not realize it […]
... written on Aug 20 2014Have you started working in 1994? That was a mere 20-years ago but it was like a gazillion years ago, if you put technology into perspective. It’s always nice to take a look back at how we did things the hard way in order for us to appreciate what we have today. In case you […]
... written on Aug 19 2014Legendary hedge fund manager George Soros has been buying and selling like crazy as of July 2014. George Soros, through his privately held investment management firm – Soros Fund Management – was buying TEVA, EQT, YPF, EGN, CZR while at the same time selling Google, Boeing, Microsoft and Harman International Industries. Besides Warren Buffett, the […]
... written on Aug 17 2014Planning to migrate to Canada? Cool, but before you jump into the next available flight or ship, there’re tons of factors to consider. Besides the weather, accommodation, kids’ education, employment and what not, it pays to give the taxes a little thought. Besides, didn’t Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life […]
... written on Aug 13 2014Finally, Malaysia’s national carrier which was founded in 1946 (then known as Malayan Airways) and later commenced operation as Malaysia Airlines System in 1972, dies a natural death. Well, that’s a polite way to bid farewell to the 68-year-old airline. In reality, Malaysian Airlines System (KLSE: MAS, stock-code 3786) or popularly known as MAS was […]
... written on Aug 12 2014Unless you’ve tons of money to burn like the wealthy Arabs, or belong to one of the 13 million “high net worth individuals” globally, you need to spend wisely especially on your next vacation overseas. Beside flights, the next biggest chunk of money spent on vacation is hotel accommodation. Of course there’s always the shopping […]
... written on Aug 08 2014We’ve often hear about multi-billion conglomerates which make billions of dollars in a calendar quarter alone such as Apple Inc., Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and so on. But we rarely read stories about SMEs (small and medium enterprise), the engine which boost many developing countries’ economic growth. Forbes Asia has recently released its annual “Best Under A […]
... written on Aug 07 2014Not long ago, a gold credit card was the most prestigious. Since then you had platinum taking over gold’s place. Now, the top-10 most exclusive credit cards are all mostly “black” or even “diamond”. The most prestigious credit card today is the same card which was launched in 1999 – the American Express Centurion Card. […]
... written on Aug 04 2014Every June or December, you would see tons of job advertisements. If there aren’t chances are the economy is not doing well hence the recession is around the corner. Employees would be extra cautious during such challenging time. Companies choose either middle or end of the year as their financial year-end. This is also the […]
... written on Jul 18 2014Apple has just announced an exclusive partnership with IBM that will see the companies collaborate to bring over 100 enterprise apps and cloud services to the iPhone and iPad – something that Steve Jobs will never do in his life. The Apple products will be branded “IBM MobileFirst for iOS Solutions” and IBM will also sell iPhones and […]
... written on Jul 16 2014
