Crisis
Maszlee Malik, the infamous “Black Shoes” Minister, has argued that Opposition bloc (obviously referring to the Pakatan Harapan coalition) needs his boss – Mahathir Mohamad – to secure enough seats to form a government. He said there’s no way that opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim could get more than 112 MPs, the magic number in the […]
... written on Jun 13 2020With hospitals around the world overflowing with Coronavirus patients, South Africa appears to be one of very few high-population countries. Whilst 17,000+ seems like a lot of cases, the death statistics are by far the most accurate way to compare countries, as most deaths are tested whilst many people go on living asymptomatic with Corovarius. […]
... written on Jun 12 2020Australia continues to become the punching bag of China as diplomatic tensions between both countries go south after Canberra campaigned for an international inquiry into the source of Coronavirus outbreak. Beijing has mocked Australia, perceived as the U.S. “deputy sheriff” in the Asia-Pacific region, of parroting the U.S. in its call for the inquiry. While Scott […]
... written on Jun 12 2020One of the questions which anti-Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition likes to provoke is this – who will become the Prime Minister if the Opposition bloc succeeded in unseating the backdoor government of Muhyiddin? Will it be former PM Mahathir Mohamad or former PM-in-waiting Anwar Ibrahim? But both are not seeing eye-to-eye, so how can PH […]
... written on Jun 09 2020Wall Street economists and analysts were looking at a nonfarm payrolls loss of 8.3 million for the month of May. That estimation would see an unemployment rate of 19.5% – the nation’s worst since the 1929 Great Depression. Instead, the month surprised everyone when payrolls added a whopping 2.5 million jobs, the biggest job increase […]
... written on Jun 07 2020When Hong Kong was plagued with a series of protests last year, which were triggered by the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders Amendment Bill, it attracted the attention from superpower United States – the champion of human rights, freedom of speech and democracy. First started in mid March 2019, the ongoing protests took a short break […]
... written on Jun 03 2020First, they said Najib Razak and Rosmah Mansor were involved in the gruesome murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu. Then, they said the despicable couple was as innocent as a newborn baby, even though they can’t explain why Najib’s bodyguard who did not know the Mongolian at all would end up killing the pregnant woman before […]
... written on Jun 01 20202020 just started, but it is already shaping up to be one of the worst years for the automotive industry ever. Lockdowns around the world have simultaneously shuttered production lines, made it hard for car owners to pay off their loans, and set many credit scores on fire. While it is too early to know […]
... written on May 31 2020Mahathir had challenged his former lieutenant Muhyiddin to sack him. And Prime Minister Muhyiddin did exactly that. Mahathir’s successors – Abdullah Badawi and Najib Razak – did not dare sack their former boss. At the most, Najib regime only dared to harass Mahathir’s wife, 91-year-old Siti Hasmah, by interrogating her in 2018 for participating in […]
... written on May 29 2020When President Trump signed into law a Coronavirus relief package on March 27, 2020, called the Federal Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program, offered through the federal CARES Act, the US$2.2 trillion stimulus package was the largest in the history of the United States. The law surpassed Obama’s US$800 billion package following the 2008 financial […]
... written on May 27 2020
