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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 17th, 2015 by financetwitter
Flashback: From a record low of RM2.10 to US$1 in October 1978, the Malaysian Ringgit hit its all time high of RM4.73 to US$1 in January 1998. Prior to the infamous Asian Financial Crisis, the ringgit was trading at about RM2.40 to a US dollar in 1997. Nobody could have predicted the type of economi [...]
August 16th, 2015 by financetwitter
1MDB scandal is a blessing in disguise. Malaysians and the international community have learned more in the last 5-weeks than 50-years this country was under UMNO's rule. People around the world were simply amazed and flabbergasted over how great a liar Prime Minister Najib Razak has demonstrated so [...]
August 15th, 2015 by financetwitter
A total of 5,270 Yazidis women and girls were abducted last year, and at least 3,144 are still being held. Amazingly, the Islamic State has developed a detailed bureaucracy of sex slavery, including sales contracts endorsed by ISIS-run Islamic courts. It has become a very effective tool to lure men [...]
August 14th, 2015 by financetwitter
The first ever mobile phone call was made in 1973 by Motorola's Martin Cooper. That's right, before most of you were born to this planet; Motorola had already done the "Connecting People" revolution, which later used as a slogan by Nokia. But the first cell phone wasn't ready until 1983, when Motoro [...]
August 13th, 2015 by financetwitter
Bank Negara Malaysia’s (Central Bank of Malaysia) governor - Zeti Akhtar Aziz – has finally revealed herself to the public since the mass “arrest, firing and hiring” exercise carried out by Prime Minister Najib Razak to “cleanse” himself from an allegation of pocketing a staggering RM2.6 [...]
August 13th, 2015 by financetwitter
The U.S. federal government is reportedly hit another record in tax collection. The first 10-months of United States fiscal year 2015 (Oct 1, 2014 through the end of July 2015) saw a mind-boggling tax revenues of US$2,672,414,000,000. The figure released by Treasury means a new record in federal tax [...]
August 12th, 2015 by financetwitter
By now, you should know why we had screamed "The Chinese Are Coming!!" about three weeks ago. That's because the China's economy is crashing, for real. Xi Jinping administration has been fire fighting ever since the terrifying 30% crash within 3-weeks in the country's stock market.
It certain [...]
August 11th, 2015 by financetwitter
You've read about the prospect of Johor declaring Independence and how the remote possibility of UMNO losing the state is actually very real. Now that desperado Najib son of Razak had axed his former deputy Muhyiddin, a Johor warlord, the chances are even higher that UMNO would lose its fortress for [...]
August 10th, 2015 by financetwitter
Will Donald Trump emerge "unexpectedly" as the next President of the United States? Perhaps "The Simpsons" has the answer. The Simpsons have a great track record of making predictions that come true years later. The popular American animated sitcom has predicted the future accurately for at least 14 [...]
August 10th, 2015 by financetwitter
Before the currency stop trading for the weekend, the Malaysian Ringgit was trading as high as RM3.9530 to a U.S. dollar. After the closing bell, it settled at RM3.9220 to a buck. So, does this mean RM3.90 is a new support level and the ringgit can never strengthen to RM3.80 anymore, at least for th [...]
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