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After weeks of suffering due to haze from Indonesian wildfires which plunged air quality to an unhealthy level, finally schools in the states of Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, and Kuala Lumpur were closed on Friday (Oct 9). Malaysia's Air Pollutant Index (API) classifies air quality as "
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Starting at around £29,210, this mid-size SUV from from China undercuts established luxury British SUVs and alternatives by tens of thousands of pounds while offering a high-end look. It topped the U.K. monthly sales charts in March 2026 and sold 28,571 units by the end of August 2026, securing
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For years, debt collection meant agents dialling through call lists, following fixed scripts and sending identical reminders to every customer, whatever their circumstances. That model struggles in digital finance. People now expect prompt, respectful communication and an easy way to sort things ou
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Flydubai's flight FZ1073 took off from Dubai International Airport in the UAE at 03:05 GMT (07:05 local time), en route to Ben Gurion Airport. Two hours into its journey on Wednesday (September 30), the Boeing 737 MAX 8 carrying 174 people - mostly Israeli passengers - plunged more than 17,000ft (5
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Resources, time, and money had been wasted when the High Court acquitted former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin on September 15 of four charges in his graft trial linked to the Jana Wibawa programme. The acquittal was for a charge of abusing his position for a RM200 million bribe and three counts o
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In a rare move, Donald Trump personally welcomed Xi Jinping's entourage at Andrews Air Force Base as the U.S. Air Force band marched on the tarmac and U.S. and Chinese flags flew. The last American president to welcome a foreign leader at Andrews John F. Kennedy in 1962, although Trump welcomed Rus
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US President Donald Trump is giving Chinese President Xi Jinping a king’s welcome this week, as he pursues what the White House calls “strategic stability.” The question is whether there will be much substance beneath the surface pomp. The administration is fast losing the Iran War. China is
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The aerospace and security industries are entering an era where technology is no longer simply improving existing capabilities. It is changing what aircraft, satellites, surveillance systems, and defence platforms can actually do. Artificial intelligence, advanced sensors, autonomous systems, secur
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I have stated my views honestly, guided by my conscience and with the best interests of the nation in mind – says Hannah Yeoh. About a week later, the Federal Territories Minister, who is also a critical member of the Pardons Board, denied ever signing a house arrest order for former Prime Minist
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In a move widely anticipated by Wall Street, the Federal Reserve unanimously raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point – with a possibility of one more increase in the cards before year-end. Effectively, the rate hike moves the central bank’s target range on the overnight
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November 14th, 2014 by financetwitter
November 11 is China Singles' Day or simply Bachelors' Day. This day is, of course, different from Bachelor Night where a party is held for a man shortly before he enters marriage. Since it's supposed to celebrate his "last night of freedom", normally the man would do "naughty stuffs" together with [...]
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 [...]
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