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

Palm Oil Cooking Forbes Graph

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

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Economy 101: Pakistan & Sri Lanka Economy Screwed By Dumb Policies & Mismanagement

Economy Currency Sing Dollar Malaysia Ringgit

The curse with is that we never had a good that managed the country’s well and often hard-earned is spent on dumb fiscal & decisions that are designed to consolidate political powers and this often runs along the lines of race and religion. Just see how Singapore’s Dollar has strengthened against Malaysia’s Ringgit in the last 14 years. Chart source: Trading View

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Economy 101: What Is The Rationale Of 51% Share Give Away In Private Companies?

Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo Telugu Share

In the 2020 Telugu movie Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, the goons will try to force an innocent businessman to sell 50% of his profitable company shares through threats and even attempted murder. A similar plot has been the crux of the story in many Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies in the past but only in , there is the rule to force private companies to sell their shares and lose a controlling stake in their own companies. Image source: Twitter

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Budget 2022: Pre Budget 2022 Statement, Some Points to Ponder

Petronas Budget Expenses Government Financial Economy

It was reported in TheStar back in February 2021 that had contributed almost RM1.2 trillion since 1976 to the national income. In Budget 2020, the projected a one-off special dividend of RM30 billion from Petronas which represented 10% of the overall RM297 billion income. The question is how long Petronas can continue to contribute significantly to the national budget? Source: Petronas

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Malaysia 101: Bold Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz Shoots Down National Recovery Plan

National Recovery Plan Rafidah Aziz COVID19

A couple of weeks ago, the announced a 4 phased recovery plan which immediately was heavily criticised by many sectors of the public, businesses and ex-Ministers like Tan Sri as inadequate and lacking a proper strategy in other areas of the and national development. source: Malay Mail

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Economy 101: Best of Ferengi’s Rules of Acquisition

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Before I started watching Deep Nine over Netflix, the Ferengi must have been one of the ugliest, most snobbish and profit-minded alien race in the Star Trek universe. But then watching Quark in Star Trek Deep Space Nine gave another interesting perspective on the Ferengis. Image source: Star Trek.com

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Malaysia 101: Stop Thinking Like Self Centred Politician

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When Trump won the elections to be the 45th US President in 2017, his mantra that won over many was “To Make America Great Again” and as a businessman and not as a politician, many thought that it can be done. In the end, he turned out to be just another self-centred politician.  Image source: AZ Quotes 

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Economy 101: Venezuela – Lessons Learned, Spoon Feeding Failure

Statista Venezuela refugees economy

has the largest oil reserves in the world and yet the country is in a major crisis, not only from the aspect of the but also socio-political. It has now become one of the biggest economy refugees with almost 4.5 million of its population leaving the country due to economic hardships. Image source: Statista

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Kingdom of Cambodia 2020: Part 2 – Overweight Luggage And Short of Cash

cambodia MAS flight phnom penh

The to started off rather early in the morning with me waking up early and double triple checking everything that I suppose bring along for the long . The kids were deeply asleep but just before I left the house, they were awake to say goodbye.

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National Security 2020: Pondering Why Rohingyas Are Hated In Myanmar – Part 1 of 4

Rohingya Refugee Countries

refugee crisis is a well known crisis and other than Bangladesh who presently bears the majority of the , others including have taken them in and provided safe haven until the situation in Myanmar improves. The fact remains that these refugees must go back home in the end before they become a national threat to others. source: Anadolu Agency

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Economy 101: Wastage of Taxpayers Money, The Denials

taxpayers matrix no spoon

(Still, remember the “no spoon” scene in The Matrix? Do you understand the meaning of the scene? I had always thought of it as something not real and yet you see it with your own eyes. Same goes for of taxpayers . Image source: Matrix Fans)

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Being a Mean, Angry Hulk in 2016!

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(One of the best scene from the Avengers – Hulk vs a God and guess who won. I watched this scene probably hundred times and I never got bored with it. Image source: http://reactiongifs.me)

It was “bang” leaving 2015 – we all watched the new Star Wars movie and we all loved it from the start to the end.

But ever since the start of a “new” year, hardly been a time when I was not in an “angry” mode. Don’t get me wrong – I am not angry with anyone in particular but now schools have started and parents rushing to send their kids to school and then rush to work, way too many idiots have sprout out and had made things worse.

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