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After weeks of suffering due to haze from Indonesian wildfires which plunged air quality to an unhealthy level, finally schools in the states of Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, and Kuala Lumpur were closed on Friday (Oct 9). Malaysia's Air Pollutant Index (API) classifies air quality as "
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Starting at around £29,210, this mid-size SUV from from China undercuts established luxury British SUVs and alternatives by tens of thousands of pounds while offering a high-end look. It topped the U.K. monthly sales charts in March 2026 and sold 28,571 units by the end of August 2026, securing
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For years, debt collection meant agents dialling through call lists, following fixed scripts and sending identical reminders to every customer, whatever their circumstances. That model struggles in digital finance. People now expect prompt, respectful communication and an easy way to sort things ou
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Flydubai's flight FZ1073 took off from Dubai International Airport in the UAE at 03:05 GMT (07:05 local time), en route to Ben Gurion Airport. Two hours into its journey on Wednesday (September 30), the Boeing 737 MAX 8 carrying 174 people - mostly Israeli passengers - plunged more than 17,000ft (5
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Resources, time, and money had been wasted when the High Court acquitted former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on September 15 of four charges in his graft trial linked to the Jana Wibawa programme. The acquittal was for a charge of abusing his position for a RM200 million bribe and three counts o
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In a rare move, Donald Trump personally welcomed Xi Jinping's entourage at Andrews Air Force Base as the U.S. Air Force band marched on the tarmac and U.S. and Chinese flags flew. The last American president to welcome a foreign leader at Andrews John F. Kennedy in 1962, although Trump welcomed Rus
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US President Donald Trump is giving Chinese President Xi Jinping a king’s welcome this week, as he pursues what the White House calls “strategic stability.” The question is whether there will be much substance beneath the surface pomp. The administration is fast losing the Iran War. China is
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The aerospace and security industries are entering an era where technology is no longer simply improving existing capabilities. It is changing what aircraft, satellites, surveillance systems, and defence platforms can actually do. Artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, autonomous systems, secur
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I have stated my views honestly, guided by my conscience and with the best interests of the nation in mind – says Hannah Yeoh. About a week later, the Federal Territories Minister, who is also a critical member of the Pardons Board, denied ever signing a house arrest order for former Prime Minist
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In a move widely anticipated by Wall Street, the Federal Reserve unanimously raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point – with a possibility of one more increase in the cards before year-end. Effectively, the rate hike moves the central bank’s target range on the overnight
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July 23rd, 2021 by financetwitter
Australia has officially complained to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) last month that China's huge slap - as high as 218.4% tariff - on the country's wine industry has done "serious harm". Trade Minister Dan Tehan had even offered a hilarious reason. He said Australia was forced to file the disp [...]
July 22nd, 2021 by financetwitter
Hundreds of Muslims, mostly migrant workers and refugees, had formed a huge crowd outside a "surau" in Taman Pelangi, Juru, Bukit Mertajam, on Tuesday morning (July 20). While there's nothing wrong with holding Aidiladha prayers, there were two issues with the event. First, they were doing it on a r [...]
July 20th, 2021 by financetwitter
Using electro-magnetic force, a maglev train "levitates" above the track with no contact between body and rail. The term "maglev" itself is derived from "magnetic levitation". Some engineers called it the floating trains. These trains basically float over guideways using the basic principles of magn [...]
July 19th, 2021 by financetwitter
May 29, 2021 was one of the biggest turning points in Malaysia. It was the day the country recorded a whopping 9,020 daily Covid-19 cases in the past 24-hour period, then the highest infections since the Coronavirus outbreak last year. And it was because of the infections that Prime Minister Muhyidd [...]
July 18th, 2021 by financetwitter
Ahead of the end of lockdown restrictions in England on Monday (July 19), the government of Boris Johnson declared that it had hit its target of offering every adult in the country a Covid-19 vaccine. Popularly known as the Freedom Day, British Prime Minister Johnson has adopted a "big bang approach [...]
July 16th, 2021 by financetwitter
When the police announced last year that the crime rate almost halved (dropped 49.1% from March 18 to May 5, 2020), it wasn't hard to believe the authorities. After all, it's not rocket science that when people were confined to homes during the first MCO 1.0 lockdown, with the government's financial [...]
July 15th, 2021 by financetwitter
In 2017, scientists and researchers wanted to develop a single vaccine against all types of Coronavirus. However, the ambitious proposal was given a low priority at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). That's because at the time, no one had proven a vaccine could stop e [...]
July 13th, 2021 by financetwitter
Two days ago, once-celebrity Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Health Ministry expected the country's daily Covid-19 to stabilize and show a decline in the next one to two weeks' time. It was Sunday (July 11) when he made his statement, the day Malaysia reported 9,105 infectio [...]
July 12th, 2021 by financetwitter
Does the clueless and incompetent Muhyiddin government know what it is doing after more than 15 months fighting the Covid-19 pandemic? Malaysia is the only country in the world that has declared an emergency as well as locking up the Parliament under the pretext of fighting Coronavirus, but fails ev [...]
July 11th, 2021 by financetwitter
HMS Queen Elizabeth is not only the United Kingdom's latest aircraft carrier, but also the most expensive flagship in the British Royal Navy. Costing roughly £3 billion (US$4 billion) to build, the aircraft carrier made headlines in 2017 after a faulty shaft seal forced it to be sent back for repai [...]
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