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In early morning Friday (May 17), a terrorist believed to be linked to the Jemaah Islamiah boldly entered a police station at a small village near Johor's Ulu Tiram and hacked the neck of a policeman on duty with a machete. He then grabbed the officer's gun and shot another policeman who came out to
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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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May 24th, 2017 by financetwitter
Unlike his call in February blasted Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over a refugee agreement and boasted about his victory before abruptly ended the phone call, President Donald Trump placed a super-friendly call to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The call, made on April 29, was [...]
May 23rd, 2017 by financetwitter
Do you know that May 22 is also known as "Bitcoin Pizza Day"? It was the date where Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer, successfully traded his 10,000 units of digital currency bitcoin (BTC) for 2 Papa John's pizzas. He posted on a bitcoin forum page - “I just want to report that I successfully traded 1 [...]
May 22nd, 2017 by financetwitter
Facing the inevitable, Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways has finally executed the last thing every employee wants - retrenchment. Close to 600 jobs, its biggest in 20 years, are to be cut thanks to a combination of complacency, arrogance and mismanagement. Under the excuse of "challenging business [...]
May 22nd, 2017 by financetwitter
Najib son of Razak was on a critical mission. He has flown 6,347-km from Kuala Lumpur to Riyadh to rub shoulders with King Salman again, and hopefully could take a "selfie", his favourite past time, with U.S. President Donald Trump. He has been spending millions of top US dollars for an audience wit [...]
May 21st, 2017 by financetwitter
First Lady Melania Trump descended from Air Force One in Saudi Arabia on Saturday morning, without wearing a headscarf. But despite her beauty, she wasn't the superstar of the day. The celebrity of the day was her husband - President Donald Trump. Before the Air Force One touched down in Riyadh at [...]
May 19th, 2017 by financetwitter
Liberals and Muslims around the world must be scratching their heads, wondering if they had been taken for a fool all along. Trump's anti-Islam speeches were breathtaking. Trump's hatred against Muslims was legendary. Trump happily spoke against radical Islamic terrorist - three magic words - that n [...]
May 18th, 2017 by financetwitter
Donald Trump was (and is still) a businessman. And he's running the White House like a business corporation - hiring and firing - as if he's still running "The Apprentice" TV shows. Until recently, the stock markets were booming with Trump's business-friendly policies, more so after he proposed to c [...]
May 17th, 2017 by financetwitter
Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and the world's richest man, never got a college degree. Not that he cares, but getting a degree wasn't his priority when most students would be fighting tooth and nail to get into Harvard. He met fellow student Steve Ballmer at Harvard. Unlike Ballmer who stayed [...]
May 16th, 2017 by financetwitter
State leaders of almost 30 countries - including Russian President Vladimir Putin and delegates from more than 100 countries - have agreed to work together to build roads, railways, ports and other key infrastructure in one of the world’s biggest economic project led by China. Representatives from [...]
May 15th, 2017 by financetwitter
When you login on Monday for work, and your computer happens to be running on older versions Microsoft's Windows such as Windows XP, chances are you could be staring at a screen screaming "pay me money to get your data back". Call it blackmail, extortion or anything you like, but there's no way you [...]
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