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President Obama has been using “harsh” words against Israel over the Gaza Strip crisis. Still, that doesn’t stop Israel from tapping into American’s mmunitions stockpile to resupply the Israel military with weapons. If you didn’t know, it was part of a program called War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSA-I), whereby locally (Israel) stores weapons can be […]
... written on Aug 16 2014Remember the Grand Saga-Bandar Mahkota Cheras fiasco more than 6-years ago? It was a classic example of gangster concessionaires working together with thuggish policemen in beating up average Joes and Janes, ala Bollywood style. That was also the turning point which showed what type of Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim is. You can read the article […]
... written on Aug 15 2014Planning to migrate to Canada? Cool, but before you jump into the next available flight or ship, there’re tons of factors to consider. Besides the weather, accommodation, kids’ education, employment and what not, it pays to give the taxes a little thought. Besides, didn’t Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life […]
... written on Aug 13 2014Finally, Malaysia’s national carrier which was founded in 1946 (then known as Malayan Airways) and later commenced operation as Malaysia Airlines System in 1972, dies a natural death. Well, that’s a polite way to bid farewell to the 68-year-old airline. In reality, Malaysian Airlines System (KLSE: MAS, stock-code 3786) or popularly known as MAS was […]
... written on Aug 12 2014In what appears to be an otherwise “natural and boring” (*yawn*) nude games if performed privately, a group of nudists are now in hot soup after a 5-min-20-sec video clip showing their “extraordinary” activity went viral. The original video was uploaded by Singaporean Albert Yam Kam Hoong to Vimeo website, about 2-months ago. Subsequently the […]
... written on Aug 08 2014We’ve often hear about multi-billion conglomerates which make billions of dollars in a calendar quarter alone such as Apple Inc., Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and so on. But we rarely read stories about SMEs (small and medium enterprise), the engine which boost many developing countries’ economic growth. Forbes Asia has recently released its annual “Best Under A […]
... written on Aug 07 2014Three years ago in 2011, researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany made headlines when they successfully created world record by transmitting data at mind-boggling 26Tbps (terabits per second) over a single optical fiber. At a rate of 26Tbps, that’s equivalent to 3.25TBps (1 byte equals to 8 bits) or 3,250 gigabytes of […]
... written on Aug 02 2014Since 2009, Samsung Electronics Co has been the most successful smartphone manufacturer in the world. But not anymore. Samsung’s latest financial results for the second quarter 2014 shows the first drop in net profit in three years for the Korean electronics giant. It made a net profit of 6.25 trillion won (US$6.1 billion), down from 7.77 […]
... written on Jul 31 2014RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific Exercise) is the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise. Held biennially during June-July from Honolulu, Hawaii, which was started in 1971, is hosted and administered by the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet, headquartered at Pearl Harbour. The main reason why such exercise is held in this region is quite obvious – this is perhaps […]
... written on Jul 31 2014Where do you go for help when you want to watch movies or TV series, listen to songs or read some e-books, but don’t want to pay for it? The Pirate Bay, of course, and it’s not that hard to understand why. Sure, downloading copyrighted materials from the site is illegal but not everybody did […]
... written on Jul 27 2014
