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Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were often associated as Asia’s pariah people due primarily to their poverty. They form a huge pool of cheap labours or slaves ready to do 3D jobs – dirty, dangerous and difficult. They were cheated by agents before they could be exported and were mistreated by employers while doing their 3D […]
... written on Feb 22 2016With less than 2-week to go before people abandon capital Kuala Lumpur and rush back for the Chinese Lunar New Year (CNY) festival, mega sales are everywhere in town. Pre-CNY has always been an interesting point to gauge the domestic economy, especially the Malaysian ethnic-Chinese. After all, the government always accuses the Chinese of dominating […]
... written on Jan 26 2016David Bowie, the legendary British rocker, died Sunday after an 18-month battle with cancer. Aged 69, he died 2-day after his birthday, when his album “Blackstar” was released. Bowie’s son, Duncan Jones, tweeted to confirm the news. His new album includes the song “Lazarus,” which begins with the words – “Look up here, I’m in heaven.” If […]
... written on Jan 12 2016Many think Germany is Europe’s hardest working country and Japan is the champion in Asia while Americans work the longest hour in both North and South America continents. After all, these countries are the wealthiest. Surprisingly, all three of them do not even qualify for the top-10 most hardworking countries on planet Earth. The […]
... written on Dec 29 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 2015Finally, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen found her spine when she raises rates for the first time since 2006. For as long as one can remember, she has been accused of delaying interest rate hikes – deliberately – to protect big boss President Obama so that businesses could be stretched for survival and unemployment kept […]
... written on Dec 17 2015Hollande, desperately looking for new tools to fight ISIS, made an unprecedented move today when his country invoked a never-before-used article of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty obliging 28-members of the bloc to give “aid and assistance by all the means in their power” to a victim member country – France. Both Barack Hussein Obama […]
... written on Nov 18 2015Last Friday, Emperor Najib Razak presented his most challenging budget since he took over the throne in 2009. The Budget 2016, as expected, was heavily decorated with the most refreshing flowers and nicest perfume money can buy in order to divert peoples’ attention from his RM42 billion 1MDB scandal and RM2.6 billion found in his […]
... written on Oct 26 2015
