Finance and Economy
Three years ago, China and Israel reached a milestone in infrastructure cooperation. A deal was signed to allow a Chinese company to run Israel’s largest port city – Haifa – for 25 years starting from 2021. The Shanghai International Port (Group) Co Ltd (SIPG) won the bid to build the new port which will be […]
... written on Dec 18 2018Donald Trump is perhaps the best U.S. president Americans have ever voted for who wanted to “Make America Great Again”. One of his projects is to fix the U.S. trade deficit with China. Americans have every reason to be angry with the Chinese. They have stolen U.S. technology and secrets, even robbed millions of American […]
... written on Dec 15 2018The older the ginger, the spicier it gets – goes a very popular Chinese idiom. It means the older a person becomes, the wiser the person gets. When Mahathir Mohamad led the opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope), to a stunning victory in the May 9th general election, the world was shocked and impressed […]
... written on Dec 14 2018Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones, says a popular Western proverb. But as trade war between the United States and China escalates, the business world was shocked at the arrest of Huawei’s CFO (chief financial officer), Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver, Canada, while she was transferring flights in the country. […]
... written on Dec 13 2018Get your popcorn and Coke ready. The party has just begun. If you believe the police’s final estimate of the recent anti-ICERD turnout at 55,000, then there were only 55,000 gullible Malays who believed UMNO and PAS leaders. But if you believe Zahid Hamidi’s claim of 500,000 rally-goers, then there were half a million of […]
... written on Dec 12 2018When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Beijing in October to mark the 40th anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the two countries, it appeared that Japan and China have put aside territorial disputes in the East China Sea as part of a new effort to improve ties. But all those efforts are about to […]
... written on Dec 12 2018PTPTN – National Higher Education Fund Corporation – is supposed to be a noble plan to extend loans to help students pursuing tertiary education in Malaysia. It was formed in 1997 during the Mahathir 1.0 era. Now that Mahathir 2.0 has returned as the prime minister for the second time, the PTPTN has become a […]
... written on Dec 07 2018Canadian authorities have arrested Huawei’s CFO (chief financial officer), Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver while she was transferring flights in the country. Sabrina, a leading contender to succeed her father, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec 1 as she is facing extradition to the United States – according to the Canadian Department of […]
... written on Dec 06 2018Singapore shot to first place last year (2017) when Paraguay decided to remove visa requirements for those carrying Singapore’s passports. Armed with 159 countries that Singaporeans can visit “visa-free” or visa-on-arrival, the tiny nation located in the Southeast Asia became the first Asian nation to head the rankings as the most powerful passport in the […]
... written on Dec 05 2018Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi dropped a bombshell on Monday (Dec 3) – Doha would leave OPEC on January 1, 2019. Clearly, it was a big news, considering that the small kingdom has been an official OPEC member since 1961. The timing of the announcement was suspicious – just days before OPEC and its allies are scheduled […]
... written on Dec 04 2018
