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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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After almost 2 weeks discussing how to retaliate over Israel's bold strikes on its embassy in Syria's capital Damascus, Tehran could not find any option except a direct attack on Israel. To strike the Jewish state from proxies located in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen or Iraq would be not only lame, but inef
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August 22nd, 2014 by financetwitter
After more than a month Malaysia Airlines lost its second aircraft within this year - shotdown on July 17 - the remains of flight MH17's 30 Malaysian victims have been identified. There were 44 Malaysians onboard the Boeing 777-200ER, including 15 crew and 2 infants, when it was shot down by Russian [...]
August 21st, 2014 by financetwitter
Have you ever flown business or first class? If you're a frequent traveller but have never receive VIP treatment as those in the business or first class, you must be wondering what's behind the curtain. The thought of free-flowing drinks, fine dining, comfy seats or luxury beds were simply mouth-wat [...]
August 20th, 2014 by financetwitter
Just when you thought the latest ceasefire between Hamas and Israel would last and thereafter bring peace to the conflict zone, it was breached, again. About 8-hours before the expiration of ceasefire, three Grad rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip and fell near Be'er Sheva and Netivot. Loud expl [...]
August 20th, 2014 by financetwitter
The cost of living is a complicated subject. Unless you're in a country such as UK where you can basically have free house, food, education and even luxury holidays under "benefits" without working for a day, you need to worry about the cost of living from the moment you leave school. You may not r [...]
August 19th, 2014 by financetwitter
Have you started working in 1994? That was a mere 20-years ago but it was like a gazillion years ago, if you put technology into perspective. It's always nice to take a look back at how we did things the hard way in order for us to appreciate what we have today. In case you didn't realize it, World [...]
August 17th, 2014 by financetwitter
Legendary hedge fund manager George Soros has been buying and selling like crazy as of July 2014. George Soros, through his privately held investment management firm - Soros Fund Management - was buying TEVA, EQT, YPF, EGN, CZR while at the same time selling Google, Boeing, Microsoft and Harman Inte [...]
August 16th, 2014 by financetwitter
President Obama has been using "harsh" words against Israel over the Gaza Strip crisis. Still, that doesn't stop Israel from tapping into American's mmunitions stockpile to resupply the Israel military with weapons. If you didn't know, it was part of a program called War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel [...]
August 15th, 2014 by financetwitter
Remember the Grand Saga-Bandar Mahkota Cheras fiasco more than 6-years ago? It was a classic example of gangster concessionaires working together with thuggish policemen in beating up average Joes and Janes, ala Bollywood style. That was also the turning point which showed what type of Menteri Besar [...]
August 14th, 2014 by financetwitter
Microsoft is rolling out its super cheap phone for consumers in Asia and Africa in its bid to conquer a different market from Apple and Samsung. Try they have but Microsoft's acquired Nokia simply couldn't fight in the premium smartphone segment dominated by Apple and Samsung. Enter Nokia 130, a US$ [...]
August 14th, 2014 by financetwitter
Mention "Raleigh" to youngsters and most probably the first thing that pop-up is bicycle to them. Try again but this time mention "Chopper" and chances are high they would be scratching their head, thinking hard if it could be related to U.S. military Apache helicopter. However, try this on some mid [...]
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