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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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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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December 12th, 2006 by financetwitter
Everyone – from the exchange to the brokers and public listed companies (PLCs) – has a role to play to ensure that the stock market continues to perform, said Bursa Malaysia chief executive officer Datuk Yusli Mohamed Yusoff today. “The role of the PLCs is to perform well and do investor relat [...]
December 11th, 2006 by financetwitter
The top business news since last Friday were the official announcement of Genting International (SIN : G13) & Star Cruise Ltd (SIN : S21) winning the Singapore second casino on the Sentosa Integrated-Resort (IR) island projects and how everyone should keep an eye on this new casino giant. The ne [...]
December 10th, 2006 by financetwitter
A source was reported told Business Times that RAJA Teh Maimunah has left the Bahrain-based Unicorn Investment Bank (UIB) to join Kuwait Finance House ( KFH ) in January 2007. She has been appointed as the chief corporate officer, overseeing the international business and corporate expansion of KFH, [...]
December 10th, 2006 by financetwitter
I'd decided to ring the register last Friday, 8-Dec-2006 on the giant online-bookstore, Amazon (Nasdaq : AMZN, quote). Most of the analysts were shying away from this stock given that it hasn’t proven that it can grow profitably. In fact its' operating margins slipped to 1.7%, from 2.2% last quart [...]
December 8th, 2006 by financetwitter
There're different types of terms being created and used as a standard to measure the performance or to forecast the potential revenue of a specific business sector. Of course this depends on whether the underlying factors which affecting the business is tangible or not. For example in telecommunica [...]
December 8th, 2006 by financetwitter
The Genting International-Star Cruises consortium has aced the Sentosa integrated resort project. The result which was announced at a press conference earlier came as no surprise as analysts had picked Genting as a frontrunner right from the start. Genting International (SIN : G13), the internationa [...]
December 8th, 2006 by financetwitter
The Singapore Tourism Board said in a statement that the government would announce the successful bid at a media conference which will start at 5.30pm today, 8-Dec-2006. A panel of government ministers will award the 30-year concession to run the integrated resort based on criteria such as the touri [...]
December 8th, 2006 by financetwitter
Less than a month after the mega-merger of Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad (GUTHRIE : stock-code 3131), Sime Darby Berhad (SIME : stock-code 4197) and Golden Hope Plantations Berhad (GHOPE : stock-code 1953), the contender IOI Corp Berhad (IOICORP : stock-code 1961)started its' chess-move in order not to be [...]
December 8th, 2006 by financetwitter
Bursa Malaysia (KLSE) stocks' price seems to rely and carry more weight on foreign research to the extent that stocks will only perform when it's being mentioned by this firm. The latest being Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad (GUTHRIE : stock-code 3131), Sime Darby Berhad (SIME : stock-code 4197) and Golden [...]
December 7th, 2006 by financetwitter
Internet search giant Yahoo (Nasdaq : www.yahoo.com, quote)announced a management overhaul and an aggressive company restructuring with the appointment of chief financial officer Susan Decker in charge of ad sales but it wasn't enough to satisfy investors when the stock price took a dive of 2.1% yes [...]
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