Food
From Madani Housing Scheme to Madani Mosque, and from Budi Madani RON95 to Rahmah Madani Sales, the Madani administration of Anwar Ibrahim has now introduced the first Madani Mart retail outlet in the country. Just like his predecessors’ policy frameworks and slogans, Anwar’s Madani is just another political branding to convince voters that this government […]
... written on Apr 05 2026Politics is all about perception, and the public perception now isn’t positive for the Anwar administration. The Madani government is perceived as increasingly untrustworthy, racist, radical, double-faced, double-standard, hypocritical and worse – even anti-Chinese and anti-Hindu. That’s really bad for Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan alliance, which depends on ethnic Chinese and Indian votes. The Malaysian […]
... written on Feb 21 2026Facing the risk of losing the next 16th General Election, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has started his campaign to appease angry ethnic Chinese – the core vote bank that put him in power after the Nov 2022 national polls. From visiting TAR UMT to announce a 10-year income tax exemption for the university and presenting a RM40 […]
... written on Feb 15 2026Before Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of Iran’s last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, called on Iranians to rally against the regime at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday (January 8 and 9), things were already falling apart in Iran. The current nationwide protest was not caused by a sudden economic meltdown or currency collapse. It […]
... written on Jan 14 2026Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female prime minister, has pledged to make the country “strong and prosperous” again. Her role model was Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female prime minister and “Iron Lady.” Her political mentor in Japan was Abe Shinzō, who was assassinated in 2022. During her run for her party’s leadership, Takaichi focused mainly on Japan’s economy and […]
... written on Nov 26 2025Annika Swenson, a senior at the University of Iowa, said layoffs at companies like Amazon have made her more anxious. The sheer number of applicants to positions and the fast-moving pace of AI have also increased her stress level. In a year, it is possible “there just wouldn’t be a person needed to do that […]
... written on Nov 15 2025Every month, Rachel Tan, a 53-year-old Singaporean tutor, boards a bus across the 1-km (0.6 mile) causeway for a day trip to Malaysia’s southern state Johor, where she stocks up on groceries and treats herself to lunch and a film. Thanks to recent streamlined immigration procedures, she doesn’t need to flash her passport but a […]
... written on Oct 20 2025Andrew Streff, just like other American soybean farmers, is in panic mode as he harvests what is expected to be a bumper crop without his biggest customer – China. He said – “China hasn’t purchased any soybeans from the United States this year, thanks to the president. Our beans are the cheapest in the world, […]
... written on Oct 10 2025Subway trains in Shenzen, China, were invaded by an army of three dozen robots early last week. The roughly three-foot-tall robots developed by a subsidiary of Vanke, a large Chinese firm partly owned by the Shenzhen Metro, boarded and exited the trains to deliver packages to several 7-Eleven convenience stores. For obvious reasons, the 41 […]
... written on Jul 22 2025One 7-ounce (201-gram) avocado provides 41% of the daily value of folate (also known as vitamin B9), which helps produce healthy red blood cells. Avocado is also high in fiber and vitamins C, E and K, not to mention potassium, copper and vitamin B6. Eating avocado regularly reduces total cholesterol and LDL (“bad”) cholesterol while […]
... written on Jun 16 2025
