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Unless you’ve tons of money to burn like the wealthy Arabs, or belong to one of the 13 million “high net worth individuals” globally, you need to spend wisely especially on your next vacation overseas. Beside flights, the next biggest chunk of money spent on vacation is hotel accommodation. Of course there’s always the shopping […]
... written on Aug 08 2014In what appears to be an otherwise “natural and boring” (*yawn*) nude games if performed privately, a group of nudists are now in hot soup after a 5-min-20-sec video clip showing their “extraordinary” activity went viral. The original video was uploaded by Singaporean Albert Yam Kam Hoong to Vimeo website, about 2-months ago. Subsequently the […]
... written on Aug 08 2014We’ve often hear about multi-billion conglomerates which make billions of dollars in a calendar quarter alone such as Apple Inc., Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and so on. But we rarely read stories about SMEs (small and medium enterprise), the engine which boost many developing countries’ economic growth. Forbes Asia has recently released its annual “Best Under A […]
... written on Aug 07 2014Every year during summer season, London would be abuzz with a sudden luxury – Middle-Eastern millionaires and billionaires fly over to escape the desert 130-degree heat. Taking advantage of their holiday to enjoy the cool breezes in UK, these wealthy Arabs would bring alone their toys as part of their competition to show off their […]
... written on Aug 05 2014Not long ago, a gold credit card was the most prestigious. Since then you had platinum taking over gold’s place. Now, the top-10 most exclusive credit cards are all mostly “black” or even “diamond”. The most prestigious credit card today is the same card which was launched in 1999 – the American Express Centurion Card. […]
... written on Aug 04 2014Don’t reinvent the wheel – that’s what Casio believes while others such as Apple, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi and others are struggling the opposite. While these players thought they should reinvent watches to be smart, veteran watch maker Casio is taking it cool and didn’t bother to join the crazy crowd. Leveraging on its popular G-SHOCK […]
... written on Aug 03 2014Three years ago in 2011, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany made headlines when they successfully created world record by transmitting data at mind-boggling 26Tbps (terabits per second) over a single optical fiber. At a rate of 26Tbps, that’s equivalent to 3.25TBps (1 byte equals to 8 bits) or 3,250 gigabytes of […]
... written on Aug 02 2014Since 2009, Samsung Electronics Co has been the most successful smartphone manufacturer in the world. But not anymore. Samsung’s latest financial results for the second quarter 2014 shows the first drop in net profit in three years for the Korean electronics giant. It made a net profit of 6.25 trillion won (US$6.1 billion), down from 7.77 […]
... written on Jul 31 2014Where do you go for help when you want to watch movies or TV series, listen to songs or read some e-books, but don’t want to pay for it? The Pirate Bay, of course, and it’s not that hard to understand why. Sure, downloading copyrighted materials from the site is illegal but not everybody did […]
... written on Jul 27 2014When Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak’s daughter, Nooryana Najwa engaged to Daniyar Nazarbayev, whose stepfather Bolat Nazarbayez is the brother to Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev; we thought Kazakhstan must have very few beautiful women. We’re of course not saying the Najib’s daughter was ugly but considering this part of the globe is normally gifted with […]
... written on Jul 25 2014
