3 days ago by Viktor Wong

What got to know in disgust that the BN government is now taking some RM1.5 million from our Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) savings in order to finance some sort of government-linked housing scheme for the "poor" and under qualified house buyers. What does that all mean to us? Our concern is what w ...

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11 days ago by Viktor Wong

The management board of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) has recently approved the transfer of about RM1.5 billion from EPF to finance the special funding scheme for the sales of houses in public housing programmes in Kuala Lumpur. According to Umno supreme council member who is also the federal t ...

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19 days ago by Michael P. O'Hara

Research In Motion's Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie have bowed to investor pressure and resigned as co-CEOs, handing the top job to an insider with four years at the struggling BlackBerry maker. Thorsten Heins, a former Siemens AG executive who has risen steadily through RIM's upper management ran ...

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35 days ago by Seabee

After fifteen years as Australia's best selling new car, the Holden Commodore (rebadged as Chevrolet Lumina in the Gulf) has been knocked off its perch by Mazda3. The reports are all about the trend to smaller cars being the reason. None of them mention what I'm convinced is a major factor. The prod ...

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35 days ago by Maran Atha

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29

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36 days ago by Adeel Ansari

ByAdeel Ansari @Adeel_Ansari ① http://www.punjabigraphics.com/pakistan-railways/ Soit seems the damage to therailway system [1] done by lack ofleadership, management and ethical business practice has not crippled it to thebrink of destruction just yet – for the Prime Minister has just announced a bu ...

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37 days ago by obsessivegiantscompulsive

A recent column by Monte Poole of the San Jose Mercury (sorry, no link, they only provide a 7 day window of access to their articles) boldly proclaiming that the A's "Fire sale exposes baseball's talk about integrity as fraudulent." I have an alternative, more accurate view: it exposes Billy Beane's ...

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37 days ago by Paul Muschick

Tired of political shenanigans, President Obama today appointed a director of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Obama used a political process known as a recess appointment to seat Richard Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general. He used that power to bypass the traditional Senate conf ...

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37 days ago by Viktor Wong

One after another government projects, if it is not a failure, then the cost of the project would eventually shoot up, from millions to billions, then to trillions of Ringgit of public funds. And this is how our money are being simply thrown around like that. Well, today we were gravely surprised of ...

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40 days ago

It was an easy act to let go of the year 2011 and welcome in the New Year, 2012/2555. That is not to say that the past year was without achievement for our citizens. But we could easily have done without the calamities of the past year. The huge crowds drawn to Sanam Luang on Saturday night for a pr ...

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