Crisis
Wee Ka Siong, MCA president and Transport Minister, was nowhere to be found when the service of Light Rail Trains (LRT) was crippled on Tuesday (Nov 8). The worst service interruption in the history of LRT since its operations started in 1996 had knocked out 16 stations. As chaos erupted in the Klang Valley, transport […]
... written on Nov 11 2022She used to talk big during the contest for the job. Wannabe Prime Minister Liz Truss said that she was ready to use nuclear weapons, even though it would mean global annihilation, winning applause from Tory party members. She was, of course, trying to project strength when challenged with a hypothetical situation facing Russia’s threat […]
... written on Oct 22 2022Some 6,000 Chinese nationals had returned to China in March after Beijing started a large-scale evacuation in Ukraine following Russia “special military operation” on February 24. The evacuation was triggered based on safety concerns as a result of increasing hostility from angry Ukrainians, who were targeting Chinese citizens due to China-Russia friendship. The Chinese […]
... written on Oct 19 2022Senile President Joe Biden still believes the economy is still in good shape and there isn’t any inflation. But the more the U.S. in denial, the longer the inflation rate is plaguing the country. The latest CPI (consumer price index) is out, and it’s horrible. The September inflation is 8.2%, up 0.4% from a year […]
... written on Oct 13 2022In 2018, Donald Trump attacked Germany, Europe’s largest economy and one of NATO’s most important members. The U.S. president warned that the country was making a big mistake in totally dependent on Russian energy. Trump’s speech at the United Nations was laughed by Germany’s UN delegation. Today, Western media are mocking and laughing at Germany’s […]
... written on Oct 12 2022On Wednesday (Oct 5), gas prices hit record highs in many parts of California. In some southern California locations, gasoline spiked to more than US$8.00 per gallon. Statewide, prices reached US$6.42 per gallon – nearly US$3 higher than the national average of US$3.83. While the blames are on regional refinery outages and Ukraine War, something else happened that […]
... written on Oct 07 2022Before then-Foreign Secretary Liz Truss won the confidence of the ruling Conservative Party to become the United Kingdom’s next prime minister, she was vigorously campaigning on the anti-China platform. Both she and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak were competing with each other to win the anti-Chinese contest. She beat Sunak by 81,326 to […]
... written on Oct 03 2022Seismic stations in Sweden, Norway and Finland registered two explosions on Monday (Sept 26). One of the explosions registered a magnitude of 2.3. Seismologists immediately knew it was not an earthquake, but undersea detonations. It was followed by a series of unusual leaks on two natural gas pipelines running from Russia under the Baltic Sea […]
... written on Sep 28 2022Ringgit officially breached the psychological RM4.50 to the U.S. dollar on Sept 13, 2022 – the lowest since the 1997-1998 Asian Financial Crisis. The Malaysian currency already plunged to its 24-year low on Sept 7 when it closed at RM4.5015 to the greenback. But for the next 3 trading days, it tried to pull back […]
... written on Sep 26 2022Walmart is the world’s largest company in terms of revenue. In the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022, the American multinational retail corporation’s revenue amounted to a whopping US$572.8 billion worldwide. That’s “half a trillion” in annual revenue from a retail giant that operates a chain of grocery stores, hypermarkets and discount department stores. […]
... written on Sep 21 2022
