Finance and Economy
Malaysia, under Prime Minister Najib Razak’s administration, has entered a new phase of “pariahness” not seen since Independence in 1957. Najib should be congratulated for bringing the country to a new level of “colonisation” through blackmail and corruption. The country is like a piece of tender and juicy wagyu-kobe beef being gobbled up by China […]
... written on Aug 12 2016The early bird gets the worm – the saying goes. Since an American mobile game developer – Niantic Labs – launched “Pokémon Go” last month, the game has raked in US$200 million (£153 million; RM800 million) in net revenue globally on the App Store and Google Play in its first month – beating popular games such as […]
... written on Aug 11 2016Both are billionaires but it seems Donald Trump and Warren Buffett have huge gap of differences. In fact, both American billionaires couldn’t see eye to eye, so much so that it would be easier to get Trump and Putin play Pokémon Go together than to get Trump and Buffett have a coffee break. Buffett, […]
... written on Aug 10 2016Emperor Napoleon once said this – “Let China Sleep, for when the Dragon awakes, she will shake the world.” Today, not only China has awaken, there seems to be very little superpower America can do to stop it from continuously growing. From the perspective of history, China has no intention of ruling the world. It’s pretty […]
... written on Aug 09 2016Since December 2008, Malaysia stock market has more than doubled (up 88% in U.S. dollar terms), until a “disaster strikes” the country. In fact, the rally in the Malaysian shares was the world’s longest bull market. Comparing to other stock markets, the KLCI (Kuala Lumpur Composite Index) has gone up the longest without a 20% […]
... written on Aug 06 2016Monkey see, monkey do – is a saying refers to the learning of a process without an understanding of why it works. If you ask former Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, he will gladly tell you such monkeys do exist in abundance – in the form of UMNO leaders throwing punches in the air in […]
... written on Aug 03 2016Yahoo has finally sold itself away to Verizon Communications for merely US$4.83 billion. Only time will tell if the purchase is a great deal, or a waste of money. Verizon, America’s biggest wireless company, plans to merge Yahoo with AOL, a company it bought last year for a cool US$4.4 billion – cash. Clearly, […]
... written on Aug 02 2016Donation is the buzzword for this year, both in the United States as well as Malaysia, but serving different purpose. In US, as temperature rises in the wake of Clinton-vs-Trump for the presidential general election this coming November, hundreds of millions of dollars are being pumped into campaigns to influence American voters. In the […]
... written on Aug 01 2016Looking for a new career? Even if you’re happy with your new job and have no intention to “jump ship”, it’s worthwhile to take a peek of the latest market offering for jobs similar to yours, or outside your field. It’s also useful to those who are not quite sure which school they should enroll […]
... written on Jul 27 2016By now every Ahmad, Ah Chong, Arumugam and his Pokemon know who the secret person with a call-sign “Malaysian Official 1” is. The hashtag #MalaysianOfficial1 has been trending since Thursday when the United States Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch officially filed in federal court seeking to seize more than US$1 billion in assets bought with money […]
... written on Jul 24 2016
