Remember how we told you about the good-cop-bad-cop roles being played by China and Russia to ensure the survivability of Fat Boy Kim Jong-un, or rather the “Rocket Man” as what U.S. President Trump likes to call the North Korean leader these days? Well, the drama has shifted into high gear, making it more obvious […]
... written on Oct 06 2017WhatsApp is one of the few foreign messaging apps available in mainland China. Although not as popular as the locally-made app WeChat, the American-made app is favoured by some for its end-to-end encryption. But it appears not even Mark Zuckerberg’s fluency in Mandarin could help WhatsApp in China, which he acquired for US $19 billion […]
... written on Jul 19 2017Theresa May was widely expected to fill in the big shoes of Margaret Thatcher. But it appears this Conservative Party leader and second female prime minister of United Kingdom is no difference than German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Not only Theresa May is clueless on where to drive the Britain after Brexit, she’s now equally clueless on […]
... written on Jun 05 2017Muslim countries, especially those that subscribe to Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabism, broadcasted and printed a piece of great news over the weekend. King Salman issued a royal decree restoring “all allowances, financial benefits, and bonuses” for civil servants and military personnel on Saturday. Saudi claimed it was due to a recovery in oil prices and internal […]
... written on Apr 25 2017United Airlines will learn the hard way that “overbooking” is a word reserved not only for an honest airline, but also for an airline that doesn’t employ an arrogant CEO. And for an airline that happily unleashed thuggish and racist security officers to bully and violently dragged an Asian passenger off the flight, the fiasco […]
... written on Apr 12 2017An otherwise peaceful Saturday was shattered with a series of explosive tweets from President Donald Trump accusing former-President Obama with tapping his phones in Trump Tower prior to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Trump quickly called it “McCarthyism” and accused the “sick Obama” of having committed Watergate 2.0 scandal. McCarthyism refers to the practice […]
... written on Mar 05 2017One very interesting fact about 2016 presidential election is the excessive involvement in politics by business organizations or individuals who are not supposed to. Besides fulltime politicians, it appears individuals, organizations and agencies somehow found themselves indulge in politics – teachers, Hollywood celebrities, spy agencies and billionaires. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is one of many […]
... written on Feb 27 2017You can be forgiven for mocking and laughing at Donald Trump during his presidential campaign. But if you continue to have egg on your face after his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, it goes to show how smart Trump really is that you didn’t even realize he has repeatedly outsmarted and […]
... written on Feb 19 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 2017Donald Trump is now officially the 45th President of the United States of America. When he took the presidential oath, Trump joins the club as one of only 45 men who have been president of the United States during the nation’s 240-year history. But there’s another more exclusive club. Out of 45 presidents, Trump is […]
... written on Jan 23 2017
