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Malaysia is the only country on planet Earth which has not one, not two but a jaw-dropping nine (9) monarchies. And if you care to add the “Yang di-Pertuan Agong” or simply the King, who is elected every 5 years among themselves, there are actually ten (10) monarchies in a country with population of only […]
... written on Sep 28 2017Soon, the jokes about Saudi Arabia being the only country on planet Earth where women were forbidden from getting behind the wheel of a car will be a thing of the past. For as long as one can remember, women in the kingdom have been discriminated and oppressed by the Saudi government and treated like […]
... written on Sep 27 2017Trump has shown to the world, again, how dumb a U.S. president could be if he tries hard enough. Donald Trump is so dumb that he probably didn’t realized that he had issued a declaration of war on North Korea when he went ballistic at his first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly last […]
... written on Sep 26 2017As anticipated, Angela Merkel’s CDU-CSU (Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union) alliance won the German election on Sunday. Although she is set to be re-elected as German chancellor for a 4th term in office, the woman who was blamed for welcoming over 1-million refugees – mostly Muslims – into the country has very little to celebrate. […]
... written on Sep 25 2017Dotard – that’s the jaw-dropping word unleashed by Kim Jong-un. Instead of a missile, the Switzerland-educated North Korean dictator fired a rarely used word at United States. Like North Korea ballistic missiles, the word was so deadly that Americans were scrambled for dictionaries. It surely sounds like “retard” so the actual meaning couldn’t be too […]
... written on Sep 25 2017Now do you understand why the Malaysian Chinese were foaming at the mouth when Prime Minister Najib Razak conspired with PAS (Malaysian Islamic Party) President Hadi Awang to introduce ancient Islamic law otherwise known as the “Hudud Law” last year? There were compelling reasons why the Chinese opposed the law which was supposed to have […]
... written on Sep 22 2017Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies were planning to launch a military invasion on Qatar before President Trump intervened and persuaded them otherwise – reported Bloomberg. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, both Sunni-majority nations, wanted to change the Qatari regime, also another Sunni-majority nations, accusing it of aligning itself with Iran – the Shia / […]
... written on Sep 21 2017President Donald Trump shows the world who’s the boss who pay the bill in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly. As the largest contributor of U.N. operating expenses, the president told the world body to reform to “Make the United Nations Great” – but not “again” – suggesting that U.N. has never […]
... written on Sep 20 2017Some were terrified when North Korea fired a ballistic missile over their head. Some were excited to see if U.S. would finally launch a pre-emptive military strike. But very few ask the burning and critical question – why didn’t the military superpower U.S. shoot down Fatboy Kim’s missile? The real answer could be rather embarrassing […]
... written on Sep 19 2017Something is terribly wrong with the way economic sanctions are being slapped on North Korea. When it comes to dealing with North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, international community especially the United Nations and the United States hope sanctions are a useful tool to bring Kim Jong-un to his knees. However, the reverse is true and now the world is […]
... written on Sep 19 2017
