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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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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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April 9th, 2020 by financetwitter
On Friday (March 10), the government of Muhyiddin Yassin will announce the fate of the MCO (movement control order), which has been enforced since March 18. But based on the current status of Coronavirus cases, you can bet all your money that it will be extended again. In fact, it's not an exaggerat [...]
April 8th, 2020 by financetwitter
United Arab Emirates (UAE) have imposed a 2-week round-the-clock lockdown in Dubai, which took effect from Saturday night (April 4). The previous night curfew from 8pm - 6am every day, which had been enforced since March 26 appeared to be insufficient in fighting the Covid-19. Its Supreme Committee [...]
April 7th, 2020 by financetwitter
Germany has unleashed a "To-Do List" to enable the country to lift, or at least scale down the lockdown, scheduled to end on April 19. The government hopes with the list of measures to be implemented, people could return to their normal life. Since its March 22's lockdown, the Europe's largest econo [...]
April 6th, 2020 by financetwitter
The simple fact that Muhyiddin Yassin refused to promote Hadi Awang as either the deputy prime minister or a religious affairs minister shows the deep distrust the prime minister has on the PAS president, whose Islamic extremism and radicalization would do more damage than good to the fragile backdo [...]
April 5th, 2020 by financetwitter
As early as February 29, the U.S. Surgeon General told people to "stop buying masks" because the face masks were simply not effective in preventing them from catching the highly infectious Coronavirus. Vice President Mike Pence then told a press conference that there was no need for Americans to wea [...]
April 4th, 2020 by financetwitter
In January 22, as the nation saw the first American diagnosed with Coronavirus after returning from China, President Donald Trump told CNBC - "We have it under control. It's one person coming in from China. It's going to be just fine." He was asked during the interview if people should be worried ab [...]
April 3rd, 2020 by financetwitter
The appointment of Islamist party PAS president Hadi Awang as special envoy to the Middle East with ministerial rank has raised eyebrows. Does Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin plan to appoint UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as special envoy to Indonesia with the same ministerial rank too? After all [...]
April 2nd, 2020 by financetwitter
Some people can’t wait to retire to just sit by the beach and do nothing all day. Others just don’t want to punch a time clock. Whatever your retirement dreams, you are probably going to need more than just your Social Security payments to get by every month.
With all the different [...]
April 2nd, 2020 by financetwitter
Muhyiddin Yassin probably had no idea how incompetent his government is when he announced his bloated Cabinet comprising 70 ministries. But with a very limited pool of intellectuals to choose from, he could only pray that his backdoor government would do as little damage as possible in the first 100 [...]
April 1st, 2020 by financetwitter
The mask is arguably the single most sought after commodity during the current Coronavirus pandemic. The dramatic increase in demand for face masks has seen its price skyrocketed to unbelievable levels. On Amazon, a package of 20 N95 particulate respirators made by Honeywell has quintupled from US$1 [...]
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