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Elon Musk has decided to do what he does best every time the demand for Tesla electric cars plunge – cut prices. With competition heating up over the past year, especially against BYD, a Chinese carmaker which is backed by legendary investor Warren Buffet, Tesla welcomes the New Year 2024 with more price cuts for […]
... written on Jan 19 2024Huawei is like Apple – they are too big to fail. In truth, when the Trump administration – repetitively – announced new rounds of export restrictions specially designed to cut off overseas manufacturers from supplying semiconductors to the Chinese telecom-equipment manufacturer, the POTUS knew his efforts to isolate China’s tech giant would fail miserably. […]
... written on Aug 23 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken landed in Beijing on Sunday (June 18) with little expectation that the planet’s two largest economies could ease the heightened tension. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the visit, but did not provide details on specific meetings – suggesting the insignificance of Blinken’s trip to the Chinese government. […]
... written on Jun 18 2023Long before BYD – “Build Your Dream” – produced Seagull, the cheapest EV (electric vehicle) at just US$11,000 (£8,855; RM48,813), China has been churning out thousands of chemists and engineers to do research on future batteries. Deep in the country’s interior, Central South University produces graduates in advance technology, despite the perception that China was […]
... written on May 11 2023Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia won’t discriminate against travellers or tourists from any particular country, even though his new unity government is prioritizing health over tourism and economy. He announced the immigration checkpoints will be tightened to screen arrivals from places with a high rate of infections – including China and the United States. […]
... written on Jan 05 2023For more than two years, the world was being told by the Western powers, led by the United States, that the Coronovirus was unleashed by the Chinese. Because the WHO (World Health Organization) received the first alerts of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China on Dec 30, 2019, it didn’t take much […]
... written on Sep 16 2022Artemis I mission to orbit the moon has failed again. For the second time this week, NASA was forced to cancel the launch on Saturday (Sept 3) after another fuel leak. The rocket was supposed to go off on Monday, but was postponed to Saturay due to liquid hydrogen leaks. NASA engineers had tried to […]
... written on Sep 04 2022Every Malaysian prime minister has his own signature concept or inspiration to build a legacy – or simply a gimmick to fish for votes. Najib Razak had introduced “1Malaysia”, a copy version of the “One Israel”. Claiming the concept was to bring Malaysians of all races to unity, Mr Najib had instead mobilized “Red Shirt” […]
... written on Apr 06 2022People in general don’t really care about the Covid-19 cases anymore. At least, they are not as concerned as before. They have done everything as instructed, included practicing social distancing and wearing masks, not to mention taking the booster vaccine shot. In fact, some have even begun to suspect the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine. […]
... written on Feb 11 2022It may sound like Megatron – the villain and the supreme leader of the Decepticons, a faction of warmongering Transformers who seek to conquer their home planet of Cybertron, and the rest of the universe. But “Deltacron”, a Covid-19 new variant that possessed characteristics of Delta and Omicron variants, has raised eyebrows among scientists – […]
... written on Jan 11 2022
