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Chennah is supposed to be a 50:50 bet. Trying to predict the outcome in Chennah - comprising 47% Malay, 44% Chinese, 7% Orang Asli and 2% India – is like predicting whether Argentina or Spain would win the 2026 FIFA World Cup. However, if the recently concluded Johor state election is any indicat
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Houthi militants have claimed attacks on two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, threatening another important route for oil flows and stoking fears that the U.S.-Iran conflict could escalate further. As a result, oil prices jumped back to US$100 a barrel on Thursday before retreating, fueling a bond s
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Just when you thought Donald Trump was too busy with the Iran War, getting ready to bomb the Pickaxe Mountain believed to have been stashed with thousands of uranium-enrichment centrifuges, the U.S. president suddenly dropped started a new round of war. He announced an additional 50% tariff on cert
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Everyone knows that MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) president Wee Ka Siong was among the first Barisan Nasional MPs who signed statutory declarations (SDs) backing Muhyiddin Yassin as Prime Minister during the chaotic political deadlock following the November 2022 national polls that produced a
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Argentina and England are not friends. They fought a short conflict over the Falkland Islands in 1982, in which 649 Argentine soldiers and 255 British combatants died. Britain ultimately won, but the question of sovereignty over the islands in the South Atlantic known to the Briti
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By hook or by crook, the Democratic Action Party (DAP) must win the upcoming Negeri Sembilan state election. After losing 40% of its seats in the Johor state election on July 11, DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke Siew Fook is under tremendous pressure. Not only he has to retain Negeri Sembilan –
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You know a government is increasingly authoritarian, corrupt, and arrogant when it starts cracking down on freedom of expression by censoring and blocking independent news portals, blogs, and social media platforms critical of the government. And you know such a dictatorship would lose power soon.
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1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad) still has RM8.9 billion remaining debts, Deputy Finance Minister Liew Chin Tong said on July 9. As at end-June, Malaysia has paid RM42.5 billion for 1MDB-related debts, while recovering RM31.3 billion over the scandal. “If there are no further recoveries,
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On paper, Argentina was unlikely to lose to Egypt in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Even after the narrow escape from Cape Verde, a country very few knew existed but gave Messi a run for his money, the favourite was Argentina against the Pharoah. The Egyptians possess one transcendent player – Mohamed
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Malaysian Chinese have suddenly become a precious commodity this month. As expected, their value skyrockets every time there is an election. With the political campaign for the Johor state election entering its second half, every politician and political party treats the ethnic Chinese like a diamo
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January 19th, 2023 by financetwitter
A new war has erupted on social media thanks to Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk. Pledging to fight for transparency at the microblogging site, the billionaire raised eyebrows last month when he wrote - "Twitter is both a social media company and a crime scene". The big boss of Tesla and SpaceX subseq [...]
January 18th, 2023 by financetwitter
Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) hopes it could be allocated some Chinese-majority seats in the coming state elections. Three states under the administration of Pakatan Harapan - Selangor, Penang, and Negeri Sembilan - as well as another 3 states ruled by opposition PAS Islamist party namely Keda [...]
January 16th, 2023 by financetwitter
Statistics show Japan has recorded 31.4 million cases and more than 62,000 deaths due to Covid-19. The figures don't look too horribly bad compared with the United States that saw more than 100 million cases and more than 1 million deaths. However, the Coronavirus death rate has been on the uptrend [...]
January 14th, 2023 by financetwitter
Anwar Ibrahim appears to have won praises from not only Indonesian businessmen and people, but also its media. Based on the praises showered on the Malaysian 10th Prime Minister from news media and the overcrowded CT Corps Leadership Forum, clearly he is more popular than his predecessors combined - [...]
January 12th, 2023 by financetwitter
As the world rushes to adopt 5G network technology, and watches how the United States tried to stop China's Huawei Technologies Co. dominance in the field, some countries in the world are still using 2G infrastructure. Such remote territories or extremely poor countries in Africa, Central America an [...]
January 11th, 2023 by financetwitter
Singapore's government-owned and controlled print media has been plagued with a major scandal - cooking the books to inflate daily circulation. SPH Media Trust, the publisher which owns newspapers like The Straits Times, Berita Harian and Lianhe Zaobao, has admitted inflating circulation numbers to [...]
January 10th, 2023 by financetwitter
Beijing has made good on its promise to retaliate against countries that discriminate travellers from China. South Korea and Japan have become the first casualties after the Chinese Embassy in both countries suspended the visa issuance for visits, business, tourism, medical care, transit and persona [...]
January 8th, 2023 by financetwitter
Why was Muhyiddin Yassin so power-crazy that he willingly betrayed friends and allies in Pakatan Harapan, leading to the collapse of the democratically-elected government after just 22 months? Why was he so obsessed with power that he didn't mind being laughed as the first backdoor prime minister? W [...]
January 6th, 2023 by financetwitter
Khairy Jamaluddin, former Science, Technology, Innovation Minister publicly announced in February 2021 that the backdoor government of Muhyiddin Yassin will ensure that "not a single dose" of Covid-19 vaccine is wasted once the national immunisation programme kicked off at the end of the month. The [...]
January 5th, 2023 by financetwitter
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia won't discriminate against travellers or tourists from any particular country, even though his new unity government is prioritizing health over tourism and economy. He announced the immigration checkpoints will be tightened to screen arrivals from places wi [...]
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