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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates held the title of the world's richest person for the longest combined duration in modern history. He topped the Forbes annual billionaire rankings for 16 out of 21 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. He was so rich that pe
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Having warned about two weeks ago that Barisan Nasional alliance will “go solo”, will contest all 56 seats in the next Johor state election, and will leave no space for cooperation or negotiation with Premier Anwar Ibrahim’s coalition called Pakatan Harapan, Johor Chief Minister Onn Hafiz Gha
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For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have studied a deceptively simple question: if you place n points in the plane, how many pairs of points can be exactly distance 1 apart? This is the planar unit distance problem, first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. It is one of the best-known questions in combin
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Johor UMNO has repeatedly announced that Barisan Nasional alliance will go solo, will contest all 56 seats in the next Johor state election, and will leave no space for cooperation or negotiation with Premier Anwar Ibrahim’s coalition called Pakatan Harapan. In short, UMNO-led Barisan Nasional (B
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Malaysian politics is set to face yet another major realignment, and we are not talking about the dramatic emergence of Parti Bersama Malaysia (Malaysian United Party or MU), an unknown party registered in 2016 which has been taken over by former Economy Minister Rafizi Ramli less than 2 weeks ago.
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Progress toward a deal to end the Iran War slowed to a trickle on Monday (May 25) as the United States and Iran dug in over several issues. Both sides cannot afford to be seen as the loser in any potential deal. The slowdown began with President Trump giving hope that a deal was close, only to say
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It’s not a coincidence the deplorable roads at your neighbourhood are being given a fresh surface of tar after years of sinkholes and potholes. It’s not a coincidence that the notorious UMNO Youth Chief Akmal Saleh has recently stopped terrorizing ethnic Chinese and insulting Hindu temples. It�
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Hours after Hamas terrorists crossed from Gaza into Israel on October 7, 2023, a video surfaced of an Israeli woman screaming - “Don’t kill me” - as she was hauled away on a motorcycle, sandwiched between two kidnappers. The young woman, who was among those assaulted at a desert music festiva
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Some call him a sore loser. Some mock his past performance as former economic minister. Some ridicule his new party – Parti Bersama Malaysia or Malaysian United Party (MU) – as a mosquito party without roots and machinery. Some question how he plans to fund MU in the coming 16th General Electio
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Nothing goes to waste. Apple, long known for producing premium-priced products, has also managed to develop a booming business selling cheaper devices when most gadget makers are being hammered by rising costs. When Macbook Neo was introduced on March 4, 2026, as an entry-level, budget-friendly lap
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March 20th, 2026 by financetwitter
The high-stakes corporate confrontation between two of Anwar’s cronies for NexG, the government’s primary technology solutions provider, is an upgraded version of crony capitalism practiced in the 1990s when Anwar was walking the corridors of power. The disgusting enrichment project becomes pa [...]
March 19th, 2026 by financetwitter
Regardless of whether it’s democracy or communism, people should not be overly obsessed with worshipping their leaders. Blind support, which often leads to absurd loyalty, would produce dictatorships, which in turn have a habit of slipping into a comedy show. In 1937, after Joseph Stalin delivere [...]
March 18th, 2026 by financetwitter
Anwar Ibrahim never abandoned his UMNO DNA – he just changed his uniform from red to blue. Given a choice, he would choose to return to the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) or merge his current Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) with UMNO. His unfinished business was to become the UMNO preside [...]
March 15th, 2026 by financetwitter
Did Iran really think Donald Trump would surrender after the regime has disrupted one of the world’s most important waterways, the Strait of Hormuz? Not only is Tehran suspected of the attacks on at least 16 foreign commercial ships in the Persian Gulf area since the war began on Februa [...]
March 13th, 2026 by financetwitter
From naughty rumours of protecting his own daughter Nurul Izzah’s husband corruption to serious suspicion of safeguarding his cronies’ involvement in corporate mafia, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is increasingly entangled in scandals as he fiercely – but foolishly – trying to defe [...]
March 12th, 2026 by financetwitter
Iran has weaponized the Strait of Hormuz to create a global oil crisis. As a result, crude oil prices skyrocketed to almost US$120 a barrel on Monday, before fell on Tuesday sparked by President Trump’s comment that the war would be over “very soon.” Brent, the global benchmark, wa [...]
March 10th, 2026 by financetwitter
Russia is arguably the “only winner”, if not one of the biggest winners, in the ongoing US-Israel war with Iran. Not only does the conflict trigger a spike in oil prices, which translates into stronger revenues for Russia, which remains one of the world's largest oil exporters despite Western s [...]
March 9th, 2026 by financetwitter
Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had thought that it was safer to be on friendly terms with a hostile Iran rather than confront it. When China brokered a deal in March 2023 to restore diplomatic relations between two bitter rivals in the Middle East, Sa [...]
March 7th, 2026 by financetwitter
For three years, like a Mafia Godfather, PM Anwar Ibrahim watched proudly as leaders in the multi-coalition Unity Government kissed his ring. He loves the symbolic gesture of respect, loyalty and more importantly – submission. Leading the packs was the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), [...]
March 5th, 2026 by financetwitter
Azerbaijan, which borders Iran to the north and has nothing to do with the Middle East conflict, has now become the latest country dragged by Iran into the war. The former Soviet republic promised a response after it said Iran’s regional attacks had spread to its territory, injuring two people th [...]
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