Government
After spending his pocket money to the tune of billions of Euros, bad boy Alexis Tsipras is coming home to ask for more. Only this time, his father Francois Hollande is out of job while his mother Angela Merkel could be joining his daddy. Yes, the infamous Greece debt crisis is back, making a full […]
... written on Feb 14 2017The beauty of Malaysia version of Islam is its perfect definition of “halal (permissible)” and “haram (forbidden)”. Unlike other Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia, Malaysia is perhaps the only Muslim country on planet Earth which consistently conducts its own R&D (research and development) to enrich its encyclopaedia of halal and haram. Last week, in […]
... written on Feb 13 2017Chancellor Angela Merkel is looking at a possible defeat in the coming election. Germany is to hold its federal election on Sunday, September 24. Merkel could end up zero, from hero, if she fails to secure her fourth term as chancellor. Former European Parliament President Martin Schulz is standing for the SDP in a bid […]
... written on Feb 12 2017Depending on what angle you view it from; President Donald Trump has made a brilliant tactical move, or committed a humiliating screw-up. When Trump made that unconventional move of taking a congratulatory phone call from the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and expressing doubts about the “One China” policy, Beijing was unbelievably furious. According to […]
... written on Feb 11 2017On January 27, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” which temporarily halts the entry of foreign nationals from 7 Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. Six of them are Arab countries. Since then, Americans (or rather liberal […]
... written on Feb 10 2017Basuki 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 2017Hillary Clinton announced in her latest speech after weeks in hibernation that “The Future is Female”. Her hidden message could be to rally the American women to prepare for her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, as her successor. But would she accept another humiliating defeat if Ivanka Trump becomes the future U.S. first woman president instead of […]
... written on Feb 08 2017A Chinese family bought some firecrackers at a stall on sidewalk located along a row of shoplots in a Chinese-majority area. Firecrackers are banned in Malaysia and for some reasons the exotic toys were particularly hard to find this year. Their children happily took out some of the firecrackers out of the plastic bag as […]
... written on Feb 07 2017Opinion polls say she will win enough votes in the first round on April 23, but the numbers also show she will be defeated in the second round on May 7. But she couldn’t care less because the polls had said the same thing about the Britons and Americans last year – the UK would […]
... written on Feb 06 2017Last Friday, President Donald Trump banned 7 Muslim-majority countries – Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen – from entering the U.S. for the next 90 days. These 7 countries have two common similarities. First, they are all majority Muslim nations. Second, they are all war infested countries with ISIS as the primary destabilizing […]
... written on Feb 03 2017
