Personalities
Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto should not have had invited Donald Trump to Mexico City for a closed-door meeting. Peña Nieto wanted to invite Hillary Clinton but to extend an invitation only to Clinton without one to Trump would tantamount to playing with fire. After all, nobody can guarantee that Trump will not win the […]
... written on Sep 01 2016The world is watching the U.S. presidential election with great interest, largely because Republican nominee Donald Trump has been providing great entertainment. Conservative Americans who believe Obama administration has basically thrown the country under the bus will be voting for Trump, never mind his rhetoric and extreme views. Liberal Americans who believe in moderation […]
... written on Aug 29 2016There is no such thing as a free lunch, and WhatsApp users are about to taste the price of sharing their supposedly private phone number, not that they have any choice in the first place. The last thing everyone enjoys is to have their phone being bombarded with online advertisements or worse – calls from strangers trying to […]
... written on Aug 26 2016Some say it was the jinx of Najib and wife Rosmah which had denied the country of its first-ever gold medal in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Auntie Rosy and PM Najib should not have had sent letters and messages of congratulation to Malaysian badminton players before the game ends. As a result, the badminton […]
... written on Aug 22 2016Leonardo DiCaprio’s third annual fundraising auction gala was so successful that it raised a mind-boggling US$45 million. Held on July 20 this year at the St. Tropez party, the event was such a big deal that it had attracted more celebrities than some awards shows. There were tons of booze, billionaires and babes at the Leonardo […]
... written on Aug 19 2016Vietnam has won its first-ever gold medal since it began competing in the Olympic Games 64 years ago in 1952. Likewise, Singapore has won its first-ever gold medal since it first entered the Olympics in 1948 – 68 years ago. Malaysia, as a country, first participated at the 1964 Olympic Games, although the country competed as “Malaya” in […]
... written on Aug 17 2016Soros doubled his bet against the S&P 500, and owned 2.1 million put options on the SPDR S&P 500 ETF. That was according to the U.S. regulatory filings 13-F back in the first quarter of 2016. In the same filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shown on Monday, the billionaire bought another 1.9 million […]
... written on Aug 16 2016Johor crown prince Tunku Ismail Ibrahim was invited for evening tea over the weekend with Prime Minister Najib Razak, the same person the prince insulted roughly a year ago, calling him “a drowning man trying to reach and hold on to anything, including – ‘shit’“. So, what was actually cooking at the prime minister’s official […]
... written on Aug 15 2016Singapore first entered the Olympics in 1948 but had never won an Olympic gold – until now. Singapore’s first medal was a silver, contributed by Tan Howe Liang, in weightlifting at Rome in 1960. The country waited 48 years before winning their next medal, also a silver in table tennis team at Beijing in 2008, thanks […]
... written on Aug 14 2016Both are billionaires but it seems Donald Trump and Warren Buffett have huge gap of differences. In fact, both American billionaires couldn’t see eye to eye, so much so that it would be easier to get Trump and Putin play Pokémon Go together than to get Trump and Buffett have a coffee break. Buffett, […]
... written on Aug 10 2016
