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On 22 October 2018, former defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein boastfully said he will use his personal connections with Beijing to help to track down and repatriate fugitive businessman Jho Low (real name: Low Taek Jho) from China. Jho Low was partner-in-crime of former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who happens to be Hishammuddin’s cousin. Of […]
... written on Mar 01 2021In the seven-emirate United Arab Emirates (UAE), if you have been in other Emirates and wish to travel to Abu Dhabi, you must present at the Abu Dhabi border your negative Covid‑19 PCR test results issued within 48 hours. In essence, residents who live in Abu Dhabi but travel daily to Dubai to work must […]
... written on Feb 27 2021Trying to reverse Donald Trump’s toxic “America’s first” agenda, President Joe Biden has started rallying the Group of Seven – G7 – allies back to the American flag. In his first address before the world since his inauguration as the 46th President of the United States, Biden declared in a virtual address to the Munich […]
... written on Feb 22 2021Treasury Wine Estates is the world’s largest listed winemaker with total revenue of A$2.88 billion in 2019. The Australian company, with a market value of US$7.32 billion, operates in Australia and New Zealand, the Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Headquartered in Melbourne, Treasure Wine’s business is in the production and marketing of wine. […]
... written on Feb 17 2021Finance Minister Zafrul Abdul Aziz previously said that he expected the Malaysian economy to shrink by 4.5% in 2020, despite the Coronavirus pandemic. To paint a rosy picture, the government had even said at one point that the economic growth would be just -3.5%. As usual, the clueless finance minister lied through his teeth as […]
... written on Feb 13 2021South Africa has recorded almost 1.5 million Coronavirus cases and more than 46,000 deaths since the pandemic began. And it has bought 1.5 million doses of vaccine from British pharmaceutical AstraZeneca for healthcare workers. The vaccination is scheduled to start this week, when the country suddenly decided to suspend the rollout. What has happened? […]
... written on Feb 10 2021Oops! The backdoor government did it again. And it’s fun to read how the pro-Perikatan Nasional supporters squirm with yet another double standards adopted by the Muhyiddin Yassin government. After the initial excitement for a Malay-Muslim government, more and more Malays have realized – to their horror – that this is not the “dream team” […]
... written on Feb 09 2021In early January, 2021, Indonesian scientists have developed a simpler way to detect Coronavirus in less than 2 minutes. Meet “GeNose” C-19, a breathalyzer device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of an “electronic nose to smell” Covid-19. The test is like a dog sniffing for elements that are unique to Covid-19. The […]
... written on Feb 05 2021For months, we’ve been saying that the backdoor government of Muhyiddin is not only illegitimate and fragile, but also clueless and incompetent. The loosely glued Perikatan Nasional coalition, consisting of three biggest “Malay” political parties – PPBM, UMNO and PAS – successfully snatched power through a coup in March 2020 under the pretext of “Malay […]
... written on Feb 01 2021China, despite a trade war with the economic superpower United States and a pandemic war with Covid-19, has been expected to register a positive economic growth in 2020. Every single analyst, economist, think tank or financial institution knew that despite being the first country hit by Coronavirus, the Chinese economy would grow by at least […]
... written on Jan 28 2021
