Finance and Economy
The Red and Black Shirts rally is quite a success, as far as rioting and looting benchmark is concerned, so far. They started marching at about 12:30pm and by 4:30pm the party was over. Nope, they didn’t spend 12-hour as plan earlier. Hundreds were seen to be leaving Padang Merbok at 4:30pm, heading back early […]
... written on Sep 16 2015Malaysia is largely self-sufficient in poultry meat production. Eggs and chicken are among the cheapest and mostly consumed protein staples in the country. Almost 90% of production occurs in Peninsular Malaysia, with the remaining in East Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia has about 3,200 broiler farms, which includes contract and independent farmers, as well as large vertically integrated […]
... written on Sep 09 2015Born on the 21st of April, 1926, British Queen Elizabeth II is an 89-year-old great-grandmother. She’s 1-year younger than 90-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, the longest-serving Prime Minister of Malaysia. You may call her Queen Elizabeth, Your Majesty or simply the Queen. But her official title is a mind-boggling 176 characters long. Here’s her full title – […]
... written on Sep 08 2015Pro-UMNO Red Shirts want to rally despite police saying “No”. Apparently, these supposedly very influential and million-members-club thugs wanted to show off that they can also mobilise at least 300,000 to the street, in retaliation to the Bersih 4.0 yellow-shirts mega rally, which itself claimed had attracted 500,000 people during a 34-hour rally recently. […]
... written on Sep 07 2015Syria is in a mess and with Vladimir Putin’s latest admission that Russian military are putting boots on the ground in Syria, things could get really ugly. For the first time, Putin isn’t shy about telling all and sundry that the Russia is providing “serious” training and logistical support to the Syrian army under the […]
... written on Sep 06 2015It was like a Hindustan movie – a businessman and a divorcee were madly in love. Unfortunately, the woman’s father didn’t like the man, most likely because he wasn’t rich or powerful enough. So, the father, who was then Deputy Tourism Minister, instructed his men to bring the guy who has stolen his daughter’s heart […]
... written on Sep 04 2015President Xi Jinping proudly displays the China’s military might – 12,000 Chinese soldiers, 500 pieces of hardware and almost 200 aircraft – in a huge military parade at Tiananmen Square on Thursday as Beijing commemorates the 70th anniversary of Japan’s World War II defeat. As the China’s commander-in-chief by virtue of him as the chairman […]
... written on Sep 03 2015Technical analysis says the U.S. stock market is about to melt, thanks to China. Unlike fundamental studies, investors who believe in technical studies have everything to worry because of “Death Cross”. It seems the epidemic of bearish “death cross” is spreading and affecting every single market segment, even to those supposedly insulated from foreign factors. […]
... written on Sep 02 2015In June 2002, the Malaysian government signed a €1 billion (US$961 million; RM3.4 billion) contract with Armaris (now DCNS) and Spanish naval shipbuilder Izar (now Navantia) for 2 SSK Scorpenes submarines. Soon after delivery, embarrassingly, one of the submarines couldn’t dive. However, the humiliation pale in comparison to the deal’s other scandals. A Mongolian […]
... written on Sep 01 2015The 34-hour marathon is finally over. This is the first time a Bersih rally lasted such a long hour, and easily the most peaceful of all the four rallies ever held, an impressive milestone. Well, there were some provocateurs who tried their luck with “firecrackers” even after the rally was over but was subsequently apprehended […]
... written on Aug 31 2015
