Crisis
The Cold War Has Begun – Beijing “Indefinitely” Suspends China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue
Relations between China and Australia have taken a twist for the worse when Beijing unexpectedly announced that the key economic dialogue with Canberra has been “suspended indefinitely”. The decision, made by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s top economic planner, saw the Australian dollar weakened against the U.S. dollar. The last time NDRC […]
... written on May 06 2021As predicted, the backdoor government of Muhyiddin has announced yet another half-baked lockdown – MCO 3.0. While people did not expect much from the clueless regime, they were flabbergasted at the deteriorating competency of the ministers involved. Even primary school students could do a better job than the bloated Cabinet of 72 ministers and deputy […]
... written on May 05 2021China and India are the two largest countries in terms of population size. China, the world’s most populous nation with 1.44 billion, has just slightly more people than India’s 1.39 billion. But on May 1, when most of the world celebrated International Workers’ Day, also known as Labour Day, both countries were facing different problems. On […]
... written on May 03 2021Backdoor Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin appears to be ready to announce yet another half-baked MCO lockdown next week. Mr Muhyiddin, or his real name Mahiaddin, said the government is reviewing the movement control order (MCO) as the Coronavirus daily new cases jump to above 3,000, despite declaring 2 weeks ago that he has no intention […]
... written on May 01 2021We will remember 2020 as the year that turned the whole world upside down. When in March that year the globe got immersed in the first wave of the pandemic, stock markets collapsed. Compared to the beginning of 2020, the S&P 500 index lost 30% of its price, while the WTI price dropped to negative […]
... written on May 01 2021Ministers or politicians who think the worst is over and this year will be the end of Coronavirus pandemic are either naive or clueless about science. The worst part is when some high-ranking officials of Ministry of Health help an incompetent government to hide and manipulate data of Covid-19 cases for selfish political or personal […]
... written on Apr 30 2021As American colleges struggle financially due to declining enrolments during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Biden administration finally decided on Monday to ease travel restrictions on Chinese and other international students into the United States. Chinese students, whose academic programs begin on August 1, 2021 or later, can enter the U.S. before the start of their […]
... written on Apr 28 2021Even at its peak in September 2020, new cases of Coronavirus in India had never hit above 100,000. And for the next 6 months, it appeared the country had managed to flatten the curve when new cases were reduced to about 10,000 a day. In comparison, the U.S. new daily cases hit 3 times that […]
... written on Apr 26 2021American pharmaceutical Pfizer and the German biotech company BioNTech have announced on 1 April, 2021 that its Coronavirus vaccine was 91.3% effective against Covid-19. The topline results were derived from analysis of 927 confirmed symptomatic cases of the virus observed in their pivotal Phase 3 study through March 13, 2021. That’s slightly lower than […]
... written on Apr 12 2021Europe’s medicines regulator – EMA (European Medicines Agency) – has finally found a possible link between AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid-19 vaccine and severe blood clots in some people who have received doses. In spite of that, the EMA insists that the blood clotting is very rare and says the benefits of getting the shot still outweigh its […]
... written on Apr 08 2021
