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Beijing frequently criticises the U.S. of employing out-dated, zero-sum thinking in trying to contain and suppress China’s rise through the lens of “Cold War mentality”. As recently as June 2025, China denounced US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for calling the Asian country a threat, ac
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As Legoland Shanghai Resort officially opened its gates to public on Saturday (July 5) in Shanghai, thousands of local tourists poured into China's first Legoland. Visitors began lining up early in the morning, many coming from Shanghai and nearby cities, despite the scorching summer heat and long
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With merely days before Washington’s reciprocal tariffs come back in full force, global attention turned to Vietnam on Thursday (July 3) after Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Hanoi. Under the agreement, which the U.S. president proudly called the “Great Deal of Cooperation”, the U.S.
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Mahathir fearlessly charged Najib, while Muhyiddin boldly convicted Najib, and Ismail stubbornly sent Najib to prison. But Anwar cowardly rewarded Najib with not only a royal pardon, but appears to be on the track to arrogantly drop all remaining corruption charges on Najib after a fearless and res
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When you first start your business, you probably won’t have too many people to rely and depend on in an effort to run your operations smoothly. Your employees, a partner or two outside the firm, and, of course, your customers. Things, however, change significantly as your business grows. If you w
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Households in Singapore have reasons to smile from July to September due to lower energy and fuel costs – a drop in electricity and gas prices. Electricity bills will decrease by 0.65 cent per kilowatt-hour (kWh), while gas prices will fall by 0.44 cent per kWh. This comes after grid operator SP
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At midnight on June 13 (which coincided with the “unlucky” Friday 13th), Israel’s generals gathered in a bunker beneath Israeli air force headquarters and watched as jets descended on Tehran in an operation they called “Red Wedding.” Hours later and 1,000 miles away, Iran’s top mil
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At the rate PAS racists and extremists keep shooting its own foot, one may wonder if the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS - Parti Islam Se-Malaysia) is trying to help rival Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stay in power for another 20 years. Its latest attack on the promotion of Major General Johnny Lim
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Iran fired 14 ballistic missiles at U.S. troops in Qatar on Monday (June 23), and in its typical hilarious face saving drama, has claimed to have “destroyed the American air base” in retaliation for U.S. strikes on three nuclear sites. With internet blackout still in place, Tehran did not need
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Operation Midnight Hammer began with “Drama King” Donald Trump pretending to be indecisive about striking Tehran. After all, he was the co-producer of TV series "The Apprentice", hosting the reality television show for a whopping fourteen seasons before departing to focus on his 2016 presidenti
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September 19th, 2007 by financetwitter
You won people - you got your interest rate cut after months of chanting, so much so that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke admitted defeat and cut the funds rate by a whopping 50 basis points. But really, can the current new rate of 4.75 percent (from previous 5.25%) help the ailing housin [...]
September 19th, 2007 by financetwitter
If you do not know yet, the announcement is already all over the financial news portal. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and his central bank colleagues admitted defeat and lowered the interest rate to 4.75 percent, a half point cut from 5.25%, pressured by the political and economy built up ov [...]
September 19th, 2007 by financetwitter
Just how on earth do you pronounce “Thoof” and most important of all what does this word means? If you check the word against thesaurus, it’s a dead-end. If you split the word to “The” and “Hoof” it’s a dead-end as well. In a nut shell, no one really knows the meaning behind Thoof br [...]
September 18th, 2007 by financetwitter
As expected, oil prices climbed to a fresh high with the light sweet crude for October delivery rose as high as $81.18 a barrel in Asian electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, before retreating slightly to $81.04, midmorning in Singapore. Basically the stocks markets across the glob [...]
September 17th, 2007 by financetwitter
It was a rare sight though it happened before but those were during the recession period. Sometimes you watched it during some television dramas but in actual fact it’s a rare occasion. What I’m talking about is the panicky depositors showed up in drove to withdraw their savings from financial i [...]
September 17th, 2007 by financetwitter
By far you’ve heard and read why everyone was and is still chanting for the Fed to cut its key rate from the current 5.25% to 5% or even 4.75%, if Bernanke is serious in wanting to make the investors “happy”. The investors are threatening (sort of) to boycott the stock markets by not participa [...]
September 16th, 2007 by financetwitter
Next week will be an interesting week, especially with the FOMC meeting on Tuesday, 18th Sept 2007. Given the damage done and the meltdown in subprime lending, the expectation is extremely high from investors for Fed to cut interest rate.to help support the U.S. economic growth, which has indirect e [...]
September 14th, 2007 by financetwitter
I was driving when I received a SMS from a number unknown to me; the content was quite lengthy so I just left it as it is. Upon reaching my destination I reached for my mobile to have a serious look and there it was a message to watch tonight’s “show” at 10:30pm (Malaysia time) on Astro Channe [...]
September 14th, 2007 by financetwitter
Human nature has it that once something is given it’s hard to take it back later. So, when the Malaysian government tried to win the hearts of millions of voters by way of subsidies little did the leader realize one day the same tactic will backfires. It was argued that the subsidies were necessar [...]
September 13th, 2007 by financetwitter
The Labor Department reported claims for unemployment benefits rose by 4,000 last week to 319,000, the sixth increase in seven weeks, but less than the 325,000 claims analysts expected. As of writing, the Dow rose 155 points (12:22pm EST) to 13,446 while the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 14.4 [...]
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