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General Elections 2022: DAP & Dumb Attacks Despite Running Only 24% Seats

Blogging Lim Kit Siang DAP Laptop Pakatan Harapan

As far as I can remember, my late father has been voting for DAP every time the country had general elections. I personally was attracted to them not only for their mission to see a fair nation for all but also to YB Lim Kit Siang who was probably one of the first politicians to embrace the new school of using blogs and social media to share his political thoughts. Image source: Free Malaysia Today

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Tags: Anwar Ibrahim, DAP, Economy, Elections, Malay, Malaysia, Pakatan Harapan, Parliament, Peninsular Malaysia, Politicians, Unity, Voters

Budget 2023: Why We Are Not Addressing Financial Leakages & Wastages?

National Budget Malaysia Economy Deficit

Malaysia always had a deficit national budget where The Government had always spent more than what it can collect except for the so-called golden years between 1993 to 1997 when the budget recorded a surplus and also low deficit budgets in between. Image source: Trading Economics.

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Tags: Accountability, Budget, Economic Stability, Economy, Elections, Expense, External Debt, Federal Government, Malaysia, Mismanagement, Money, Parliament, Politicians, Public Funds, Wastage

Economy 101: Seriously, Is Malaysia’s External Debt As Bad As Sri Lanka?

Sri Lanka Riot External Debt

COVID-19 pandemic, public funds mismanagement and corruption have driven some countries into severe external debts that they were unable to recover from and this saw massive public riots that had driven the politicians involved out of their country. One such example is Sri Lanka where the President of the country had fled the country and the country is in a major riot. Image source: BBC

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Tags: Asia, Bailout, Currency, Debt to GDP ratio, Economy, External Debt, IMF, Malaysia, Mismanagement, Public Funds, Sri Lanka, Statistics

Economy 101: The Truth Behind Malaysia’s Chicken Shortage

Fried Chicken Food KFC

When it comes to meat protein, one of the best and healthier ones is sourced from fish and chicken meat but due to overfishing and sometimes weather, fish sold in the market is not cheap. So often we will turn to chicken especially freshly cut ones as the more affordable source for our protein source. Photo by Pixabay from Pexels

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Economy 101: Is This Why Cooking Oil Price Insanely High in Malaysia?

Palm Oil Cooking Forbes Graph

We use palm cooking oil as the mainstream cooking oil as it is the obvious option and can easily get it as Malaysia is one of the largest exporters of palm oil in the world after neighbouring Indonesia. Of course, if one has the money, they can opt for the more expensive imported vegetable oils like canola or olive oil. Chart source: Forbes / Statista

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Tags: Agriculture, Cooking, Cooking Oil, Economy, Environment, Expensive, Government, Indonesia, Malaysia, Money, Palm oil, Statistics, Ukraine