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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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On Friday (April 12), President Biden expressed his anticipation of an Iranian attack on Israel and rushed warships, including aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and destroyers USS Carney and USS Arleigh Burke to protect Israel and American forces in the region. With "expectation" that the at
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Anwar Ibrahim was displeased - even panicked - when Abdul Hadi Awang beats him to scoring some brownie points when the PAS Islamist party president contacted Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh to express his support for the terrorist organization. Prime Minister Anwar, unsatisfied, then used all
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Americans can make about 11 gigawatts of solar panels per year, up from 6.4 gigawatts in 2022. In comparison, one Chinese company alone - JinkoSolar - is able to produce 56 gigawatts at its solar panel factory in Shanxi province. China as a whole can make more than 400 gigawatts of new panels every
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Investors, both domestic and foreign, have every reason to think twice about doing business in a country called Malaysia as Islamic extremism and terrorism spread like wildfire. In addition to red tape and corruption, they should add another item to their checklist - logos or products must be approv
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October 7th, 2008 by financetwitter
Rumors about AirAsia Berhad’s (KLSE: AIRASIA, stock-code 5099) privatization have been circulating many months ago and today the Southeast Asia’s largest discount carrier confirmed that its major shareholder Tune Air Berhad is considering the initiative to buy back the shares from the public in [...]
October 6th, 2008 by financetwitter
Lame-duck and flip-flop PM Abdullah Badawi said he will announce the decision on whether he would defend the UMNO presidency either tomorrow or by Wednesday. Although he would most probably quit, the Malaysian PM might just show his infamous indecisive leadership again – he might announce he still [...]
October 4th, 2008 by financetwitter
Germany is a great nation. The country also saw the emergence of a great hero, or devil depending on how you look at it – Adolf Hitler. He participated in both worlds’ greatest war, World War I and II. I can’t imagine what would happen to Germany if Hitler never invaded Soviet Union and spared [...]
October 3rd, 2008 by financetwitter
When you read from the government-controlled media that Malaysia’s economy has the capacity to weather the destabilizing consequences of developments in the US economy and international financial markets, that’s when you need to start worrying about the economy. It’s better for newly appointed [...]
September 30th, 2008 by financetwitter
Let’s rejoice and celebrate because Malaysia’s largest lender, Malayan Banking Berhad (KLSE: MAYBANK, stock-code 1155), has just managed to beg PT Bank Internasional Indonesia’s (JAK: BNII) major shareholder Fullerton Financial Holdings, a unit of Singapore's Temasek, for more sweets. Maybank [...]
September 30th, 2008 by financetwitter
Boeing is a trademark synonym with domination in aerospace and by far the largest global aircraft manufacturer. Mentioned 777 and chances are the awesome “Triple Seven” world’s largest twinjet jumbo plane appear in front of you. It’s jumbo alright and when you’re talking about something th [...]
September 29th, 2008 by financetwitter
Wachovia Corp., just like Washington Mutual Inc., is probably one of the classic examples of investing at the wrong time. It suffers huge losses after it acquired mortgage lender Golden West Financial Corp in 2006 for a whopping $24 billion. The acquisition was done at the peak of housing boom – t [...]
September 29th, 2008 by financetwitter
Only after heavy criticisms and sell-off of Malayan Banking Berhad’s (KLSE: MAYBANK, stock-code 1155) shares as a sign of protest, the Malaysia’s Central Bank woke up (from sleep) and told Maybank to behave and re-negotiate for a better pricing in its acquisition for PT Bank Internasional Indone [...]
September 28th, 2008 by financetwitter
Game over for lame duck Abdullah Badawi! PM to quit next Mar 2009! Early transition of power in Mar 2009 instead of June 2010! The headlines go on and on after Friday’s UMNO supreme council meeting. On paper it appears the sleepy PM, as he often labeled will have to enjoy his sleep to the fullest [...]
September 25th, 2008 by financetwitter
Just like history, numbers don’t lie unless someone deliberately twist it. Fortunately somewhere within this globe the real facts about history or numbers will be kept and archived. Something is definitely very wrong with the current government judging from the numbers lately. No matter how you cr [...]
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