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In early morning Friday (May 17), a terrorist believed to be linked to the Jemaah Islamiah boldly entered a police station at a small village near Johor's Ulu Tiram and hacked the neck of a policeman on duty with a machete. He then grabbed the officer's gun and shot another policeman who came out to
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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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May 9th, 2021 by financetwitter
Daily Coronavirus new cases hit 4,519 on Saturday after Friday's 4,498, which was then a three-month high. And you can bet your last dollar that very soon the record of 5,728 new infections recorded on January 30 will be broken. For those who believe the government has been suppressing the statistic [...]
May 7th, 2021 by financetwitter
Prime Minister Muhyiddin, as usual, is keeping his elegant silence even after a week since the explosive scandal of Home Minister Hamzah Zainuddin interfering with the promotion and transfer of senior police officers. The fact that it was the outgoing Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Abdul Hamid Ba [...]
May 6th, 2021 by financetwitter
Relations between China and Australia have taken a twist for the worse when Beijing unexpectedly announced that the key economic dialogue with Canberra has been "suspended indefinitely". The decision, made by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planner, saw [...]
May 5th, 2021 by financetwitter
As predicted, the backdoor government of Muhyiddin has announced yet another half-baked lockdown - MCO 3.0. While people did not expect much from the clueless regime, they were flabbergasted at the deteriorating competency of the ministers involved. Even primary school students could do a better job [...]
May 3rd, 2021 by financetwitter
China and India are the two largest countries in terms of population size. China, the world's most populous nation with 1.44 billion, has just slightly more people than India's 1.39 billion. But on May 1, when most of the world celebrated International Workers' Day, also known as Labour Day, both [...]
May 1st, 2021 by financetwitter
Backdoor Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin appears to be ready to announce yet another half-baked MCO lockdown next week. Mr Muhyiddin, or his real name Mahiaddin, said the government is reviewing the movement control order (MCO) as the Coronavirus daily new cases jump to above 3,000, despite declarin [...]
May 1st, 2021 by financetwitter
We will remember 2020 as the year that turned the whole world upside down. When in March that year the globe got immersed in the first wave of the pandemic, stock markets collapsed. Compared to the beginning of 2020, the S&P 500 index lost 30% of its price, while the WTI price dropped to negativ [...]
April 30th, 2021 by financetwitter
Ministers or politicians who think the worst is over and this year will be the end of Coronavirus pandemic are either naive or clueless about science. The worst part is when some high-ranking officials of Ministry of Health help an incompetent government to hide and manipulate data of Covid-19 cases [...]
April 29th, 2021 by financetwitter
Last month (March 26), China's Ministry of Commerce officially announced that import duties between 116.2% and 218.4% will be imposed on Australian wines. The ministry concluded that domestic wine industry had been hurt by the dumping of cheap Aussie wine. To make matters worse, Beijing decided that [...]
April 28th, 2021 by financetwitter
As American colleges struggle financially due to declining enrolments during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Biden administration finally decided on Monday to ease travel restrictions on Chinese and other international students into the United States. Chinese students, whose academic programs begin on [...]
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