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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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June 6th, 2016 by financetwitter
Sungai Besar and Kuala Kangsar by-elections are set for multi-cornered fights, as expected. It appears Pakatan Harapan (Hope's Pact) consisting of DAP, PKR and Amanah political parties is not as screw up as it had been during the recent Sarawak state election. Well, at least PKR who had clashed with [...]
June 6th, 2016 by financetwitter
Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. He was "The Greatest". Muhammad Ali, one of the world's greatest boxers, died on Friday, June 3, at the age of 74. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay on January 17, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky, Ali started boxing at age 12 after his new bicycle was stolen and [...]
June 5th, 2016 by financetwitter
Last year, Prime Minister Najib Razak almost achieved what his father did back in 1969 - a bloody racial riot. We're talking about Low Yat Crisis, of course, which was sparked by two young Malays involved in phone theft, but very quickly turned into a racial riot when the culprits returned with 6 mo [...]
June 3rd, 2016 by financetwitter
Brexit - British exit from EU - is very real and could happen after a referendum on June 23, roughly 3 weeks away. Unlike a referendum on Scottish independence which took place on 18 September 2014, the Brexit is different simply because the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England have been [...]
June 3rd, 2016 by financetwitter
OPEC unsurprisingly failed to agree on anything (*yawn*), despite market got very excited about a potential output ceiling. "Hope is a powerful weapon and no one power on earth can deprive you of." - Nelson Mandela wrote in a letter to Winnie Mandela in 1969. But that's what OPEC members and other [...]
June 2nd, 2016 by financetwitter
You might not know this but the British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC - has an interesting department. The post - BBC Head of Religion and Ethics - has seen Professor Aaqil Ahmed as the first Muslim to be appointed to the role in the BBC's 87-year history. Understandably, when Mr Aaqil was appointe [...]
June 2nd, 2016 by financetwitter
A key goal of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan is to increase the number of women in the workforce from 22% to 30%. The vision, which was announced by Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman last month, is supposed to prepare the kingdom for an era in which it does not rely heavily on oil. [...]
June 1st, 2016 by financetwitter
Are you a business owner who employs a battalion of staffs or workers? More importantly, do you, as a boss, believe that young workers produce higher productivity than older workers and in a process which you didn't even realise, have practiced age discrimination against your older workers who had f [...]
June 1st, 2016 by financetwitter
Mention Brunei and a country ruled by an absolute monarchist come to mind. Hassanah Bolkiah, the country's 29th Sultan, is notorious for his fortune - estimated at US$20 billion as of 2008 (according to Forbes). He was once the world's richest man but despite his brother Prince Jefri's pilfering US [...]
May 31st, 2016 by financetwitter
Business needs branding and as a product or service becomes famous, a corporation requires a meaningful logo to represent the company's identity. However, business changes with time hence the needs to change its logo. Naturally, logos would evolve in order to reflect such changes and we would someti [...]
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