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Unemployment rate plunged to 2.9% in November 2025, reaching its lowest level in 11 years. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim quickly claimed the credit in January 2026, attributing the milestone to his Madani Government’s so-called economic reforms. Today, with Johor state election at high gear, Deput
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Ever wonder why Najib Razak’s lawyer - Muhammad Shafee Abdullah – has suddenly gone silent over a royal pardon and house arrest? Shafee, who had whined, cried, and bitched till foaming at the mouth about the government’s obstruction of a purported "addendum order" by the previous King allowin
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While Malaysia's multi-coalition Unity Government remains intact at the federal level, the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), a governing partner, is waging selective wars in its strongholds that are threatening to expose the fragility and weakness of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s admin
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You don’t actually have to win your match to reach the knockout stage at the FIFA World Cup. At a time when Asian soccer giant South Korea failed to make it, a tiny island with the same population as Maldives but few people knew existed stunningly made it through – without winning a single matc
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UMNO-led Barisan Nasional (BN) may have miscalculated when Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Ghazi arrogantly declared war on Pakatan Harapan (PH). Not only he announced that BN will “go solo”, will contest all 56 seats in the next Johor state election, and will leave no space for cooperation or n
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On May 1, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) – under Executive Order (E.O.) 13902 - designated three Iranian foreign currency exchange houses and their associated front companies as part of Economic Fury and Treasury’s ongoing efforts to disrup
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One of the easiest gimmicks to scam voters to win elections is to create problems and then pretend to solve them, and voila, people would burst into tears in appreciation and gratitude. Taking away something before giving it back has been one of the oldest tricks used by many parents to handle misb
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What goes around comes around - meaning your actions, whether good or bad, will eventually have consequences that return to you. When politicians from Bersatu, Barisan Nasional, PAS, and a splinter faction of PKR met at the Sheraton Hotel on February 23, 2020, all eyes were on Muhyiddin Yassin and
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Among the 40 DAP Members of Parliament, Hannah Yeoh arguably is the most rewarded lawmaker. Not only Asia Mobility Technologies Sdn Bhd, owned by her husband, was awarded the Selangor's Demand-Responsive Transit (DRT) controversial billion-ringgit project, but she also received a promotion as the F
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President Donald Trump has said a deal to end fighting between the U.S. and Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday (June 14), despite Iran casting doubt on the timing. On Saturday, Pakistan, a key mediator, also said the deal was "likely expected" to be finalized within 24 hours and they were "pr
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August 8th, 2017 by financetwitter
American consumers have gotten themselves into a bigger and scarier financial trouble than before. They've just created a new record - highest credit card debt in the history of the United States. A report by the Federal Reserve on Monday confirmed that Americans had accumulated US$1.021 trillion in [...]
August 7th, 2017 by financetwitter
U.S. stock markets have gone bonkers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended at its 8th straight record high on Friday. The DJIA is now at record high - above 22,000 - and already people are talking and singing about 23,000, and beyond, as if the musical chairs game will never stop. It will stop eve [...]
August 6th, 2017 by financetwitter
Penny's watch from the classic 1980s cartoon Inspector Gadget is still miles smarter and capable than Apple's so-called smartwatch. Besides making voice call, the smartwatch from the 1983 could make video calls, has laser beam to cut metals, flashlight feature, ability to detect radioactive and even [...]
August 4th, 2017 by financetwitter
China's highly secretive 19th National Congress has begun. The Middle Kingdom might be a one-party system ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. But that doesn't mean there isn't any political power struggle within the powerful Chinese party. Nobody knows for sure who gets promoted and who doesn't. T [...]
August 3rd, 2017 by financetwitter
When Shabudin Yahaya, a Malaysian MP of the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, believed that there was “nothing wrong” with child marriages, one wondered if certain Muslims in the country were that desperate for sex. Mr. Shabudin, a Muslim himself, argued that girls as young as nine were “p [...]
August 2nd, 2017 by financetwitter
This country is so screwed up that it couldn't even pay US$600 million of debt to IPIC (International Petroleum Investment Company), Abu Dhabi’s US$80 billion sovereign-wealth fund. After the deadline on Tuesday, IPIC has given 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad), a fund set up by Prime Minister [...]
August 1st, 2017 by financetwitter
Nicolas Maduro effectively proclaims himself a new dictator of Venezuela after he held a controversial election to create the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), a constitutional assembly that would grant his party sweeping power. The Venezuelan president staged an election where only his supporte [...]
July 31st, 2017 by financetwitter
The number is 755 - that's how many U.S. diplomats have to leave Russia by September 1. In essence, that means there're 1,210 U.S. diplomatic employees currently employed at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok. However, the United States has not [...]
July 30th, 2017 by financetwitter
Tesla was briefly the most valuable car company in United States, until Americans realized that the company was nothing but junk - production delays, technical issues, horrible sound insulation, sunroof leaking, buggy door handling, terrible interior quality and the list goes on. That's a long list [...]
July 28th, 2017 by financetwitter
President Vladimir Putin had tried everything in his power to become United States' friend. He even refused to retaliate after former President Barack Obama slapped sanctions on Russia last December 2016 over unproven allegations that the Russian president personally directed covert cyber attacks ag [...]
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