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Defiant Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim thought he was clever and invincible when he deliberately met with Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh during his 3-day visit in Qatar. He wanted to send a message to Washington that even if Malaysian banking system was helping the terrorist org
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Regardless whether you belonged to Baby Boomers (born from 1946 to 1964), Generation X (born from 1965 to 1980) or Millennials (born from 1981 to 1996), you can't run away from something called credit card debt. Consumers love using credit cards, but at the same time hate paying off outstanding debt
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Here's how to win a soccer game - score more goals than your rival, or watch your enemy score own goals (ignore penalty shoot-out). The result is out and the Democratic Action Party (DAP) Pang Sock Tao has won the Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election with a 3,869 vote majority. DAP, a component of Pakatan
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If DarSa Fried Chicken (DFC) is trying to replace Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), it should close shop now before it goes bust. Chances are it will fail miserably. Even before the local restaurant could make profits, it has already violated all business ethics. It is not price competitive, does not re
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In a desperate effort to buy votes, especially from fellow Malay Muslims of whom 80% did not vote for Anwar Ibrahim in the last November 2022 General Election, the Malaysian Prime Minister announced a record hike in civil servants’ salary of more than 13%. He bragged on Labour Day that the RM10 bi
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Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim appears to have chicken out from Kuala Kubu Baharu by-election. Now, Selangor Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) Amirudin Shari is the poster boy after Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil hinted that Anwar would not be present during the campaign for the largest constituenc
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Antony Blinken's visit - his second to China is less than a year - is the clearest proof that the U.S. Secretary of State was sent to beg the Chinese again. But as expected, nothing can be achieved from such visits as long as Washington arrogantly thinks it could tell Beijing what China can or canno
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About 40,000 people in Kuala Kubu Baharu will go to the polling stations again on May 11 to vote for a new assemblyperson. The largest constituency in the state of Selangor will see a four-cornered contest following the death of its three-term assemblywoman Lee Kee Hiong from the Democratic Action P
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A Canadian-American professor of political science, Bruce Gilley's alma mater included University of Toronto (B.A.), University of Oxford (M.Phil) and Princeton University (PhD). From Bachelor of Arts in economics and international relations to Master of Economics, he then received his PhD in poli
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Unable to accept the reality that a Chinese company could develop a highly popular app called TikTok, the United States has been trying everything in its power to control it. ByteDance now has two options - either sell it to American owners, or get ready to be banned. The Senate voted 79 to 18 after
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July 27th, 2018 by financetwitter
The mandatory punishment for murder, drug trafficking, treason, and waging war against Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) is death. And ex-prime minister Najib Razak could have committed treason and depending on how you argue the case, he could have even tried waging war against the King. The leaked CI [...]
July 26th, 2018 by financetwitter
Khairy Jamaluddin has acknowledged turning down offers by UMNO President Zahid Hamidi to take up top positions in the party. Earlier, Zahid revealed Khairy had twice turned down his offers for him to be the Barisan Nasional (BN) Secretary-General and UMNO Information Chief. Zahid also claimed that K [...]
July 26th, 2018 by financetwitter
Investors didn't see this coming. They called it unprecedented. They were caught with their pants down, so much so that they actually said Facebook didn't need to give such a weak guidance. Do they expect Facebook to lie? Yes, Facebook warned investors of weakening revenue for the second half of the [...]
July 25th, 2018 by financetwitter
After the world was entertained with antics displayed by Trump-Kim and Trump-Rouhani, the war of words has shifted to new players. This time, two powerful nations - Turkey and Israel - have started the lethal war in the Middle East. Zionist, Hitler, racist, fascist and dictator were some of the word [...]
July 25th, 2018 by financetwitter
The credit should go to the Hindraf uprising in 2007. The ethnic-Indian started the ball-rolling to the eventual collapse of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition government, after ruling for 61 years since independence in 1957. The ethnic-Chinese were dumbfounded by the sudden Indians rebellion. They sud [...]
July 25th, 2018 by financetwitter
Generally, the people of Hong Kong - Hong Kongers - have a perception that their former lord, United Kingdom or Britain, is the good guy while China the bad guy. They prefer to be ruled by the British Empire than the Chinese Communist Party. Given a second chance, the Hong Kongers would gladly be a [...]
July 24th, 2018 by financetwitter
The Sungai Kandis constituency has 51,230 registered voters. In terms of race composition, 71.34% of the voters are Malays, 15.69% Indians and 11.75% Chinese. A by-election was triggered by the death of the assemblyman, Mat Shuhaimi Shafiei of PKR, of lymphoma cancer on July 2. The campaign has star [...]
July 23rd, 2018 by financetwitter
Beijing's unusual silence over Donald Trump's latest US$505 billion trade war threat has been mind-boggling. Has President Trump pressed the right button and was right when he declared that trade wars were good and easy to win? It appears so, judging by the lack of retaliation from the Chinese after [...]
July 23rd, 2018 by financetwitter
A new earning season is here and it will be stretching across July all the reports will inform investment decisions before October. The question is, what do we expect in this season and how will they impact on day to day business decisions? Also, is everyone ready for big surprises that are likely t [...]
July 23rd, 2018 by financetwitter
Straits Times news media, the mouthpiece of the Government of Singapore, has suddenly fallen in love with the Malaysian new government. Ever since the collapse of the old Najib regime, the Singapore media has shown unusual fetishes for Mahathir administration. The media has increasingly demonstrated [...]
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