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Australia, or to be precise South Australia, is now the proud owner of the world’s biggest battery. And the lithium-ion battery has just been powered on Friday, ahead of schedule. Capable of powering 30,000 lucky Australian homes, the battery is as huge as an American football field. The hero is none other than “Ironman” Elon […]
... written on Dec 02 2017As expected, there isn’t much President Donald Trump could do to badass North Korea Kim Jong-un after the hermit kingdom blasted another ballistic missile. Mr. Kim has self-proclaimed his regime as a “nuclear state” after his latest round of demonstration – sending Hwasong-15 in a 53-minutes ride above the space, reaching a height of up […]
... written on Nov 30 2017After more than a two-month pause, the Rocket Man Kim has done it again after North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Tuesday. This was the first ballistic missile test by Pyongyang since the hermit state launched a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range missile on September 15. This round, however, a longer range Hwasong-15 is used, as claimed […]
... written on Nov 29 2017Food delivery service is taking the street by storm. Chances are you might have seen them during peak hour – either calls themselves UberEATS, JustEat, GrubHub, Food Panda or Deliveroo. Regardless, it is a competitive industry with each company having to work to provide low costs, interesting restaurants, fast delivery time and of course, quality food. […]
... written on Nov 28 2017China is today the world’s biggest economy. But the Middle Kingdom didn’t transform itself into a wealthy nation overnight without lifting a finger. It had been invaded and colonised by various empires – from Mongolia to Manchuria, Russia, United States, Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Japan. Amazingly, the Chinese didn’t perish but emerge stronger over […]
... written on Nov 27 2017What does Malaysian Mahathir Mohamad, Filipino Ferdinand Marcos, Egyptian Hosni Mubarak, Indonesian Suharto and now Zimbabwean Robert Mugabe has in common? They were all once dictators who ruled with iron fist without regards to basic human rights. More importantly they were highly corrupted dictators who get to retire – fabulously rich. Mahathir retired after […]
... written on Nov 24 2017Mark Zuckerberg’s fluency in Mandarin is legendary. Yet, despite all his efforts learning and speaking the language to impress President Xi Jinping, he couldn’t convince Beijing that Whatsapp is a harmless application. WhatsApp was one of the few foreign messaging apps available in mainland China until it was blocked before the Communist Party congress gets […]
... written on Nov 23 2017Angela Merkel was a very unhappy woman on Sunday, and who could blame her. In spite of winning the federal elections on September 2017, her chance to become the German Chancellor for the fourth term has hit the wall, for now. While it was a victory, her CDU-CSU (Christian Democratic Union-Christian Social Union) alliance received […]
... written on Nov 20 2017About 200 Saudi princes, ministers, senior military officers and wealthy businessmen are still being held in 5-star prison Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh. But soon, they could walk out free again, despite allegations of corruption and money laundering. The fact that they weren’t officially charged till today suggests that the Saudi government wasn’t interested in their despicable crimes […]
... written on Nov 17 2017U.S. stocks closed lower Wednesday – both Dow and S&P 500 – suffered their biggest one-day percentage drops since September. The Dow fell 138.19 points while the S&P 500 lost 14.25 points. That wasn’t too bad considering both plunges were less than 1%. But the issue here is they crashed primarily due to a sudden […]
... written on Nov 16 2017
