Taxes
After 10 year on top of the chart, Singapore has lost its crown as the best country in the world to do business. Not many could guess the new champion – New Zealand – a boring but beautiful country where the highly successful “Lord of the Rings” films were made. For the year 2017, World […]
... written on Oct 26 2016Budget 2017 revealed by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was both boring and interesting. It was boring because the scandal-hit Najib tried to hoodwink ignorant people that everything in the garden is still rosy. It was interesting because the shameless Najib finally admitted his administration has successfully dried the country’s treasures. When Najib trumpeted […]
... written on Oct 24 2016Ahead of her first debate with Trump on Monday night at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Clinton has proposed to raise taxes on inherited property – up to 65%. That is totally the opposite of what Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wants to do if he gets to become the next President of the […]
... written on Sep 23 2016Bill Gross is worth US$2.4 billion, according to Forbes. Although that’s nowhere near Warren Buffett’s US$65.7 billion, Gross is a legendary bond investor who co-founded Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) in 1971. The bond guru and portfolio manager at Janus Capital Management was of the opinion that it was a 50/50 chance that the Fed would […]
... written on Sep 22 2016During the Low Yat Crisis last year, Prime Minister Najib Razak almost made his dad proud. Like his father’s 1969 bloody racial riots, Malaysia was on a brink of its second racial riot. A phone theft involving 2 young Malays quickly turned into a mini racial riot when hundreds more Malays, instigated by thugs under […]
... written on Sep 03 2016Apple has been ordered to pay up to €13 billion (US$14.5 billion; £11 billion; RM58.8 billion) in back taxes, plus interest, to Ireland after the European antitrust regulators ruled that a special scheme hatched between Apple (stock-code: AAPL) and the Irish tax authorities to route profits through Ireland was considered illegal state aid. The commission said Ireland’s […]
... written on Aug 30 2016United States presidential election 2016 is not merely about Donald Trump calling Hillary Clinton of having a “short-circuit in the brain” or Clinton accusing Trump of being unfit to become a president. Regardless of who gets elected to the White House, it would impact American business owners and individuals, one way or another. According […]
... written on Aug 13 2016Roughly 35,000 crossed the border on Saturday. Another 88,000 did the same on Sunday. Some had travelled in chartered buses from cities 10 hours away. Their mission: to buy food. What they have back home in their apartment is a fridge covered with souvenir magnets from vacations abroad, but no food. So when the […]
... written on Jul 19 2016From hero to zero – that was the best description for Boris Johnson, the former Mayor of London who was backstabbed by his friend. He was brave, bold and a Brexiteer who brought down Prime Minister David Cameron. He was the favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister, but like “Game of Thrones”, he was […]
... written on Jul 01 2016This is quite boring but since millions of ethnic-Chinese are foaming on the mouth beating their chests in anger over the arrest of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, we thought an article or two might be able to stop them from going crazy when Mr. Lim is eventually sent to prison, hopefully to be […]
... written on Jun 30 2016
