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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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The MMC is embroiled in a tussle with the parallel pathway specialists and the medical genetics graduates over recognising their qualifications for the purpose of listing them in the National Specialists Register (NSR). Four cardiothoracic surgeons with qualifications from the Royal College of Surge
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When the going gets tough, he runs and hides away. That's how Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim projects himself just 15 months into office. The only thing he dares to involve is defending Hamas terrorists in an ongoing war some 7,600 kilometres away. That is what really excites him. In his own homeland,
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Roughly a week after Iran attacked Israel with more than 300 drones and missiles, 99% of which missed or intercepted, Israel has retaliated, striking the Islamic Republic with just a handful or drones and missiles. Unlike Iranian's massive attack on the Jewish state that failed to inflict meaningful
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McDonald's Malaysia is looking to expand its fleet of outlets to 750 nationwide by 2030. That's more than double from its current 370 restaurants across the country, or about 63 new outlets every year for the next 6 years. With between 50 to 100 jobs created from each restaurant, the fast food chain
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September 1st, 2014 by financetwitter
Malaysians celebrate their Independence Day every year on August 31. In case you didn't realize, it was also the same day that Diana, Princess of Wales, died exactly 17 years ago in 1997. Besides her jewellery and cash, one of the greatest gifts that she had left for her sons is perhaps her 25-feet [...]
August 30th, 2014 by financetwitter
Donna Tithecott, 54, from Lifton, West Devon, received £55,000 (US$91,300; RM287,820) over nine years from generous British Government in benefits. The free money was paid to her as part of housing and council tax benefits, income support and employment and support allowance. At first glance, this [...]
August 29th, 2014 by financetwitter
After Malaysia Airlines lost two Boeing-777 via MH370 and MH17 in less than six months, the impact on the aviation industry was tremendous. The lost of lives are not limited only to the passengers, but also the crew on board the planes. Regardless whether the plane was missing due to unknown reasons [...]
August 28th, 2014 by financetwitter
China has a new super rich man - Jack Ma - the 49-year-old founder and chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Based on Bloomberg latest compilation, Jack has a net worth of a staggering $21.8 billion (£13 billion; RM68.6 billion), making him the richest man in China instantly, dwarfing his nearest [...]
August 27th, 2014 by financetwitter
Six months ago, we published an article about "Kajang Move" (read here). We don't like the name "Kajang Move" but prefer to call it "Operation Kajang" instead, simply because it would sound more dramatic, just like Hollywood "action" movies with tons of explosives and fireworks. If you had read the [...]
August 27th, 2014 by financetwitter
Apple sold 13.2 million iPads in Q3 2014 but that number is down from the 16.3 million sold Q2 2014, and the 14.6 million sold in Q3 2013. The tablet sales are "crashing", and analysts have declared the good time for tablet is coming to an end. This could be the strongest reason why Tim Cook partn [...]
August 26th, 2014 by financetwitter
Everybody is superbly happy with the news that Burger King will marry Tim Hortons, and move in to Canada. Shares of Burger King (NYSE: stock) jumped 19.51% to $32.40 while Tim Hortons (NYSE: stock) rose by 18.91% to $74.72 after the closing bell on Monday. The only people who were upset with the mer [...]
August 25th, 2014 by financetwitter
There're tons of books that you can buy and read about stock market and share investments. If you're literally a bookworm who can digest thousands of pages of those financial, economy and investing books, go ahead. But for those lazy dummies who like to get some basic fundamental knowledge about sto [...]
August 24th, 2014 by financetwitter
Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976, to develop and sell personal computers. It was then incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. on January 3, 1977; subsequently renamed as Apple Inc. on January 9, 2007. As of today, the company has a market capita [...]
August 24th, 2014 by financetwitter
Gregory Sancoff is a self-made millionaire and the CEO of Juliet Marine Systems, a company he founded in 2004. Interestingly, he was a former medical devices expert but a terrorist attack on the USS Cole in 2000 during which 17 sailors were killed changed his life. Wanted to do something to help t [...]
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