Personalities
The threat to the Christianity must be very real for the Archbishop of Canterbury to issue a warning on Christmas Day that the religion is facing “elimination” in the Middle East at the hands of an Islamic State (ISIS) “apocalypse”. The Most Reverend Justin Welby called the Islamist extremists as “a Herod of today” – a reference […]
... written on Dec 27 2015Christmas is just around the corner and stock markets have already started its yearly window dressing. Now is perhaps the best time for you to take some money off the table, if your portfolio is making good money. However, there’s one very prosperous country in ASEAN which disallows people from celebrating Christmas. Oil-rich Brunei has […]
... written on Dec 23 2015You may be forgiven for mistaken this airline as an Irish airline. After all, “Rayani Air” does sound like “Ryanair”, an Irish low-cost airline founded in 1985 and has since grown to become the largest European airline, operating over 300 Boeing 737-800 aircraft serving 31 countries in Europe, Africa and Middle East. Perhaps inspired by […]
... written on Dec 22 2015When do you feel like giving way to another motorist during a busy day? Well, when you’re happy, of course. And when do you think you would be happy on the road? Of course, when you don’t have to worry about paying bills, putting food on the table, rushing for a business appointment and the […]
... written on Dec 21 2015Do you remember what you were doing on June 29, 2006? That was close to 10-year ago and you could probably still schooling. But that was when the Federal Reserve pushed the key rate to 5.25%, for a 17th straight time since June 2004, and the last time before they do it again almost 10-year […]
... written on Dec 19 2015He is the first Portuguese footballer to win three FIFA / Ballons d’Or, and the first player to win four European Golden Shoe awards. In September 2015, he scored his 500th senior career goal for club and country. He has a US$50+ million a year salary (with bonuses) through 2018 and the world’s most popular athlete, with 108 million […]
... written on Dec 18 2015Vladimir Putin is not insane. He’s simply a bully with brains. But is a bully with brains more dangerous than an insane dictator? That depends on what you make of Adolf Hitler. Was the former German supremo an insane dictator or a bully with brains? Whatever you like to call the Russian president, people are […]
... written on Dec 16 2015Turkey, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is playing a very lethal game of Russian roulette. Instead of loading a bullet into the chamber of a revolver, spinning the cylinder, and then pulling the trigger while pointing the gun at his own head, Erdoğan pointed the gun at Putin’s head instead. And he shot the Russian […]
... written on Dec 07 2015All the predictions and statements by pro-Najib bloggers about the Malaysian prime minister’s bravery haven’t materialized. It’s true that it’s extremely hard to force Najib son of Razak into early retirement, thanks to former premier Mahathir who had fortified the position before he retired in 2003. Najib, his advisers and his band of bloggers knew […]
... written on Dec 04 2015The United Kingdom voted to extend bombing missions conducted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) to Islamic State targets in Syria, which prior to an “11-hour” debate in the House of Commons, were limited to targeting ISIS in Iraq. But it wasn’t Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party David Cameron who managed and secured […]
... written on Dec 03 2015
