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Despite winning numerous awards earlier, it was the popular “The Hunger Games” film series which catapulted Jennifer Lawrence as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. The Hunger Games (2012) grossed US$691 million while the second The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) made US$864 million. The third film – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part […]
... written on Nov 21 2014Asians are perhaps the most conservative when come to e-commerce or simply online shopping. In the 1990s, before the dot com bubble burst, e-commerce was the buzzword that attracted tons of money, especially those companies listed on the Nasdaq. Today, such buzzword is as obsolete as dinosaurs. The so-called e-commerce has reached maturity. People simply […]
... written on Nov 20 2014After unveiled its new banknote series, easily the best money ever designed, Norway has unveiled yet another stylish design – passports. Much to the envy of non-Norwegian citizens around the globe, Norway’s National Police Directorate has announced that it’s selected a new “cool and beautiful” design for the nation’s passports, thanks to Oslo-based Neue Design Studio. With the […]
... written on Nov 19 2014A million dollar quiz – which country that allows women to join police force, only if they’re virgin? Nope, it’s not Malaysia or North Korea. The answer is surprisingly – Indonesia. Just when Indonesian women wanted to serve their country and earn a living, the country’s police force raises eyebrows with a pathetic discrimination requirement […]
... written on Nov 18 2014Starting today, anybody can buy China stocks at the debut of an exchange link that allows Hong Kong and Shanghai investors to trade shares on each others’ bourses. Called “Stock Connect”, mainland Chinese can now trade shares in Hong Kong for the first time, while foreign investors in Hong Kong are allowed to buy and […]
... written on Nov 17 2014Thanks to United States, the global political and potentially military landscape would change. U.S. outsourcing (to China) business model has made China an economic powerhouse, which could outgrow U.S. itself, given a couple more years. And thanks to lame duck President Barack Obama, who has yet to grow his spine, Russia under Vladimir Putin’s rule […]
... written on Nov 15 2014November 11 is China Singles’ Day or simply Bachelors’ Day. This day is, of course, different from Bachelor Night where a party is held for a man shortly before he enters marriage. Since it’s supposed to celebrate his “last night of freedom”, normally the man would do “naughty stuffs” together with his male friends (*grin*), […]
... written on Nov 14 2014Five giant banks and US$3.3 billion – that’s how many players and the amount of penalty the global regulators are slapping them. In a latest financial scandal – British, American and Swiss regulators have found HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland (R.B.S.), JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and UBS guilty of manipulating the foreign currency markets. At stake […]
... written on Nov 12 2014It all began in 2010 when 34-year-old Mr Lester Ong Boon Lin wanted to trade in the blue Aston Martin V8 Vantage that he had bought for S$550,000 for a new Bentley GT which costs about S$770,000. Mr Ong was supposed to top up the difference. In an agreement between Mr Ong and Exotic Motors, […]
... written on Nov 11 2014Forget about Google’s search engine or driverless car projects. The company might have bigger secretive projects that could leapfrog mankind from the World Wide Web to the next quantum leap – space exploration and robotics. If “Terminator” robots take over the world soon, blame it on Google. Of course, after watching how Skynet became self-aware […]
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