Corruption
As much as I would like to stop writing about PM Najib administration, the plot just got interesting and I think he may just hit the bull’s eye as far as my prediction that his downfall may be faster than his predecessor, Abdullah Badawi, is concerned. Compared with Najib, Badawi now seems like a cute […]
... written on Jul 23 2011Seriously, I hate to see Najib goes down faster than his predecessor, although I did write an article back in Jan 2010 that Najib’s administration may be short-lived, shorter than former PM Abdullah Badawi (you can read here). It seems there’s serious brain-drain in premiership succession that every new prime minister is worse than the […]
... written on Jul 15 2011My driver was anxiously telling me how he evaded the road block on his way to pick me up at the airport, on the eve of Bersih 2.0’s July 9 rally. Before I can start telling him about my trip to Hong Kong and the wonderful foods that I had, he told me not to […]
... written on Jul 11 2011History tends to repeat itself – a quote that is frequently used although nobody knows exactly who started using it or when it was first being used. Stock investors, analysts, traders and writers especially in the technical analysis field will tell you people still tend to repeat their own mistakes in both bullish and bearish […]
... written on Jun 28 2011Malaysia’s Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said that it detected service outages due to attack to 91 websites, 51 websites of which are in the .gov.my domain and that 41 of the sites suffered various levels of disruption including http://malaysia.gov.my and http://sabahtourism.com. The ‘Operation Malaysia’ was executed by an international hackers group called “Anonymous” who […]
... written on Jun 17 2011On 31-Mar-1993, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia’s main energy provider and a government-linked company signed a 21-year Electricity Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with IPP (Independent Power Producers) Yeoh Tiong Lay Corporation Bhd. (YTL). This was the first PPA ever signed by TNB with an IPP license for the Paka and Pasir Gudang Power Stations. Very […]
... written on Jun 02 2011Prisoners at the labour camps in China are going high-tech – breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines through days but playing online games at night. These prisoners worked 12-hour shifts in the camp earning 5,000 – 6,000 renminbi (US$770 – US$920) a day playing addicted games such as World of Warcraft. […]
... written on May 27 2011Next month will be the Judgement Day for both consumers and the Malaysian government. The petrol price hike is almost certain. The only question is by how much will the government increase RON95 after its brother RON97 was increased by RM0.20 a liter early this month. Another interesting event is whether the government would lower […]
... written on May 25 2011People make mistakes and some of them could be very costly. Some knew of the consequences but still the sex pleasures overrule everything. Many don’t really care because it was the public money. Some tried to cover their mistake but it got worsen and the hole got bigger. And of course some thought things can’t […]
... written on Apr 29 2011Khairun Bin Zainal Mokhtar, CEO and biggest single shareholder of Tricubes Berhad (KLSE: TCUBES, stock-code 0062) disposed 20,000 shares and transferred 2,000.000 shares to his wife, Zalianna Binti Mohd Zaman Khan, according to the latest changes in shareholders received by Bursa Malaysia on 14 Feb 2011. Effectively Khairun’s direct shares reduced to 38,690,734 or 29.31%. […]
... written on Apr 27 2011
