Archive for October, 2025
Emerging from their first face-to-face meeting in six years, U.S. President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping appears to have reached a temporary truce in the trade war between the two economic superpowers. But all analysts believe that the Chinese leader walked out of the meeting with a new image – a leader of […]
... written on Oct 31 2025As soon as Trump disembarked from Air Force One, the U.S. president knew he was going to have fun. Even days before his trip to the Asean Summit on October 26, the agendas had been set between Washington and Kuala Lumpur. There would be only handshakes, praises and diplomatic compliments. Compared with European Union, Canada, […]
... written on Oct 28 2025PM Anwar Ibrahim was both excited and panicked when a religious extremist opposition lawmaker raised a question that alcohol was served during an alumni gathering at a secondary school – St Michael’s Institution – in Ipoh on September 27. It was clearly a bait to trap the prime minister over the event at the Old […]
... written on Oct 25 2025Donald Trump was shocked, angry and speechless, but also powerless at the same time when China tightened restrictions on rare-earth exports this month. It was a counterstrike which the White House didn’t expect largely due to the perception that the Chinese were always inferior and highly depended on the U.S. and its allies. After all, Beijing has […]
... written on Oct 23 2025Every month, Rachel Tan, a 53-year-old Singaporean tutor, boards a bus across the 1-km (0.6 mile) causeway for a day trip to Malaysia’s southern state Johor, where she stocks up on groceries and treats herself to lunch and a film. Thanks to recent streamlined immigration procedures, she doesn’t need to flash her passport but a […]
... written on Oct 20 2025Sorry, Volodymyr Zelensky. There won’t be any Tomahawk missiles headed to Ukraine now that Russian President Vladimir Putin successfully hijacked the Ukrainian president’s masterplan. Putin had managed to talk and charm U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone just one day before Zelensky’s arrival at the White House. Trump said his session with Putin was “very […]
... written on Oct 18 2025Today, people often prefer remote work, traveling more, and building businesses far beyond their home country. Global mobility is becoming the norm, which is why the topic of cross-border financial services is gaining prominence.r The question seems simple: how to conveniently manage money while thousands of kilometers from home? For many, the answer lies in […]
... written on Oct 17 2025How Anwar Ibrahim wished he were invited to the International Peace Summit in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. The high-level gathering, co-chaired by Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, involved leaders and officials from 27 countries. The meeting obviously provides an opportunity for world leaders to rub […]
... written on Oct 15 2025Despite Home Affairs Minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail’s defiance that all foreign players were granted citizenship after a very rigorous process, the scandal involving the fabrication of birth certificates for seven foreign football players so that they can represent Malaysia isn’t going away. Worse, it is turning the heat on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government. […]
... written on Oct 14 2025On Friday (October 10), Trump announced that the United States would slap additional 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports from November 1. Angrily, he also threatens to put export controls on critical software and to pull out of a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping. However, residents of Beijing reacted with indifference and defiance the […]
... written on Oct 12 2025
