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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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Before the November 2022 General Election, Bersatu (PPBM or Malaysian United Indigenous Party) and PAS (Parti Islam Se-Malaysia or Malaysian Islamic Party) were great buddies. The relationship between Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin and PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang was so close and intimate th
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May 11th, 2025 by financetwitter
Whether you like it or not, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People's Justice Party) has become quite unrecognizable since its president, Anwar Ibrahim, becomes the 10th Prime Minister post-November 2022 General Election. PKR's favourite slogan - "Reformasi" - has slowly become a joke and an embarrassment fo [...]
May 8th, 2025 by financetwitter
Desperate for Chinese and Indian votes, former backdoor Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has suddenly shifted his "Malay First" to "Malaysian First" stance to hoodwink non-Malay voters. On the other side, UMNO Youth Chief Akmal Saleh, desperate for Malay votes, has declared he is "Malay First" rathe [...]
May 6th, 2025 by financetwitter
China and Canada might have their own mini trade war going on, where Beijing slapped a 100% tariff on Canadian canola oil, oil cakes and pea imports, and a 25% duty on aquatic products and pork effective March 20, 2025. It was in retaliation for Canadian 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (E [...]
May 3rd, 2025 by financetwitter
President Donald Trump's plate is full with problems. Last year, a survey of more than 150 historians ranked him as the worst President in the 232-year history of the United States - scored 10.92 out of 100. But his supporters, who have yet to see the consequences of Trump's tariff war against [...]
May 2nd, 2025 by financetwitter
The substantial role of central banks in the gold market continues due to their involvement in monetary policy and participation through direct purchases. In 2024, the world’s central banks collectively bought just above 1,045 tonnes of gold. It showed that for the third year in a row, purchases [...]
May 1st, 2025 by financetwitter
Xi Jinping's refusal to call Donald Trump despite the White House's begging was not the only thing that shocked the U.S. president. Other world leaders, like Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who is still lobbying for his first phone call after the POTUS had calls with almost all leaders in th [...]
April 29th, 2025 by financetwitter
If the just concluded Ayer Kuning by-election is any indicator, the next 16th General Election could see Perikatan Nasional, comprising Bersatu (Malaysian United Indigenous Party) and PAS (Malaysian Islamic Party), to remain as the Opposition. Of course, that provided the United Malays Nationa [...]
April 26th, 2025 by financetwitter
Having manufactured a tariff crisis which has backfired in his face, Donald Trump is now scrambling to manufacture a solution - without much success. Even if the U.S. president had deliberately designed the crisis with the purpose of making money through insider trading, he does not appear to have [...]
April 24th, 2025 by financetwitter
Last week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said - "The ball is in China's court: China needs to make a deal with us, we don't have to make a deal with them". But the fact that Donald Trump sent her to make the statement instead of crowing it himself shows that the president was both de [...]
April 21st, 2025 by financetwitter
Japanese Yakuza have a unique form of extortion known as sōkaiya. Instead of harassing small businesses for protection money, the yakuza harasses the stockholder meetings of large corporations. But that was a big mistake, forcing the introduction of anti-organized crime law in 1992 and 2011. As a [...]
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