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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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November 13th, 2014 by financetwitter
If there's one thing that can unite Malaysians regardless of race and religion, it has to be sport. Badminton is the only sport that put Malaysia on the world map. In fact, you can't think of anything else that would make Malaysians proud other than badminton. Certainly not corruption index, univers [...]
November 12th, 2014 by financetwitter
Five giant banks and US$3.3 billion - that's how many players and the amount of penalty the global regulators are slapping them. In a latest financial scandal - British, American and Swiss regulators have found HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland (R.B.S.), JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and UBS guilty of mani [...]
November 11th, 2014 by financetwitter
It all began in 2010 when 34-year-old Mr Lester Ong Boon Lin wanted to trade in the blue Aston Martin V8 Vantage that he had bought for S$550,000 for a new Bentley GT which costs about S$770,000. Mr Ong was supposed to top up the difference. In an agreement between Mr Ong and Exotic Motors, a Singap [...]
November 11th, 2014 by financetwitter
Forget about Google's search engine or driverless car projects. The company might have bigger secretive projects that could leapfrog mankind from the World Wide Web to the next quantum leap - space exploration and robotics. If "Terminator" robots take over the world soon, blame it on Google. Of cour [...]
November 10th, 2014 by financetwitter
Can you still remember being called "idiot or stupid" by your teacher(s) or friend(s) during school days? Worse still, your biological parents labelled you stupid simply because you weren't among the top students in your class. Of course, most of us accepted the fate as it was, and blamed it on gene [...]
November 8th, 2014 by financetwitter
Good news - women are now allowed to drive (*tongue-in-cheek*). Of course we're talking about the only country in the world that previously does not allow them to do so - Saudi Arabia. In a surprise move, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has recommended the country’s government lift the long-standin [...]
November 7th, 2014 by financetwitter
On a trip to Japan in the early 1980s, Steve Jobs asked Sony's chairman Akio Morita why everyone in the company's factories wore uniforms. He told Jobs that after the war, no one had any clothes, and companies like Sony had to give their workers something to wear each day. Over the years, the unifor [...]
November 6th, 2014 by financetwitter
President Barack Obama should have realized his Democrat party is toast the moment Kim Kardashian threw her support behind him. Kim who must have thought it would be a freaking good publicity stunt had posted a cartoon image of herself with President Obama. She was instead called a "moron" and "usel [...]
November 5th, 2014 by financetwitter
Yesterday, we wrote about the happy and sad consequences as a result of US dollar bull run. Americans are cheering a stronger dollar for a simple reason that their purchasing power will be higher. It will cost them lesser for a vacation in Paris or Bangkok, for example. Since Americans don't believe [...]
November 4th, 2014 by financetwitter
Forget about Islamic State militants, tumbling oil prices, China's weakening economy, Japan's recession, Germany's slowing economic data and whatnot. There's a new problem which will affect every single country on planet Earth. The US dollar has surged to a four-year high against a basket of currenc [...]
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