Billionaire Elon Musk, who became the first person on the planet to achieve a net worth of more than US$500 billion last month (October 2025), has continued to hold the top position since May 2024, and chances are he could become the world’s first trillionaire soon. According to Forbes' billionai
Read Full StoryWhen FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur in October 2025, there were concerns of hanky-panky, which might lead to a successful (or a partial successful) appeal by the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) following an embarrassing document forgery scand
Read Full StoryMaduro has to make the right decision fast – he could find himself trapped and might soon discover that he cannot flee the country even if he decided to. The Trump administration has already offered a US$50 million bounty for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the Venezu
Read Full StoryEmerging from their first face-to-face meeting in six years, U.S. President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping appears to have reached a temporary truce in the trade war between the two economic superpowers. But all analysts believe that the Chinese leader walked out of the meeting with a
Read Full StoryAs soon as Trump disembarked from Air Force One, the U.S. president knew he was going to have fun. Even days before his trip to the Asean Summit on October 26, the agendas had been set between Washington and Kuala Lumpur. There would be only handshakes, praises and diplomatic compliments. Compared
Read Full StoryPM Anwar Ibrahim was both excited and panicked when a religious extremist opposition lawmaker raised a question that alcohol was served during an alumni gathering at a secondary school – St Michael’s Institution - in Ipoh on September 27. It was clearly a bait to trap the prime minister over th
Read Full StoryDonald Trump was shocked, angry and speechless, but also powerless at the same time when China tightened restrictions on rare-earth exports this month. It was a counterstrike which the White House didn’t expect largely due to the perception that the Chinese were always inferior and high
Read Full StoryEvery month, Rachel Tan, a 53-year-old Singaporean tutor, boards a bus across the 1-km (0.6 mile) causeway for a day trip to Malaysia’s southern state Johor, where she stocks up on groceries and treats herself to lunch and a film. Thanks to recent streamlined immigration procedures, she doesn’t
Read Full StorySorry, Volodymyr Zelensky. There won’t be any Tomahawk missiles headed to Ukraine now that Russian President Vladimir Putin successfully hijacked the Ukrainian president’s masterplan. Putin had managed to talk and charm U.S. President Donald Trump over the phone just one day before Zelensky’
Read Full StoryToday, people often prefer remote work, traveling more, and building businesses far beyond their home country. Global mobility is becoming the norm, which is why the topic of cross-border financial services is gaining prominence.r The question seems simple: how to conveniently manage money while
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