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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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June 8th, 2011 by financetwitter
Sony has just announced its Next Generation Portable (NGP) at E3, Los Angeles, and it's called PlayStation Vita. One of the reasons was to divert attention from the hacking attack that left millions of PSN users' data at risk in order to win back some trust.Obviously E3 was the platform to convince [...]
June 2nd, 2011 by financetwitter
Fahmi Fadzil is a blogger who was formerly trained as a chemical engineer. He is also the political secretary to Lembah Pantai MP and PKR Vice President Nurul Izzah, the daughter of opposition de-facto leader Anwar Ibrahim. He has over 4,300 twittter followers and has close to 20,000 tweets with the [...]
June 2nd, 2011 by financetwitter
On 31-Mar-1993, Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Malaysia's main energy provider and a government-linked company signed a 21-year Electricity Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with IPP (Independent Power Producers) Yeoh Tiong Lay Corporation Bhd. (YTL). This was the first PPA ever signed by TNB with an IP [...]
May 27th, 2011 by financetwitter
Prisoners at the labour camps in China are going high-tech - breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines through days but playing online games at night. These prisoners worked 12-hour shifts in the camp earning 5,000 - 6,000 renminbi (US$770 - US$920) a day playing addicted games [...]
May 27th, 2011 by financetwitter
Dubai had the world’s fastest- growing property market until mid-2008 when the subprime crisis originated from US arrived at the kingdom. The collapse of the emirate's property sector was partly due to heavy speculation where borrowing was as easy as buying groceries from the supermarket. An estim [...]
May 26th, 2011 by financetwitter
China is the second biggest economic powerhouse and if the latest data posted on World Economy Outlook by International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reliable, the date of China becoming the new economic leader could be in 2016, leaving United States behind. But even though China can realize the dream of b [...]
May 25th, 2011 by financetwitter
Next month will be the Judgement Day for both consumers and the Malaysian government. The petrol price hike is almost certain. The only question is by how much will the government increase RON95 after its brother RON97 was increased by RM0.20 a liter early this month. Another interesting event is wh [...]
May 23rd, 2011 by financetwitter
Economic and military super powerhouse United States of America officially hit its legal borrowing limit on Monday. That means the US government has debt of a mind-boggling US$14.3 trillion and if the lawmakers do not increase the borrowing limit by August 2nd, the government will be at risk of an u [...]
May 23rd, 2011 by financetwitter
Not long after the U.S. subprime crisis hit the global financial markets, Dubai had its own subprime crisis when the United Arab Emirates’s investment and development engine, Dubai World, announced that it was seeking a six-month delay in paying creditors on nearly US$60 billion in debt. When the [...]
May 20th, 2011 by financetwitter
Jim Cramer was right when he was furious about the LinkedIn Corp's IPO yesterday. He was absolutely right that the IPO was "outrageously overvalued and preposterous" and that it's the most ridiculous IPO since TheGlobe.com. Seriously, who can blame him when he accused the underwriters of playing the [...]
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