Forum: The Global Financial Crisis and Implications on Malaysia

Sunday night is still on my mind, but in the meantime, a gentleman requested this event be publicised. Important subject, might try to stop by.

6pm – 8pm, Wednesday 12th November 2008

Venue: Lecture Hall 3, Faculty of Business & Accountancy

Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur

2008 has seen the United States experience one of the worst [...]

Extravagances: Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra

Mind you, classical music is great. But the figures are stunning:

Lim Guan Eng, revealed that the cost to maintain the musicians is a whopping RM3.5 million a month.

“As much as 95 percent of the foreign musicians are paid between RM16,000 and RM28,000 a month and given two months paid leave every year. The conductor is [...]

Figures reveal advising PM = lucrative business

Malaysiakini:

According to Zulkifli Noordin (PKR-Kulim Bandar Baru), Mahathir – who is also the ex-premier – is being paid RM180,000 per year while Abdullah’s advisers Shahrizat Abdul Jalil (women and social development affairs) and Abdul Hamid Othman (religious) received RM404,726 and RM549,675 respectively.

The figures were revealed in two separate parliamentary written replies to Zulkifli from the [...]

PR PR, Makkal Osai, Altantuya, Azalina’s Theft, KeADILan Targeted

So many issues today, and haven’t done a “little points” style posting in a while. All about variety eh?

I have to say that Karpal Singh taking a swipe at the Kelantan royalty, while perhaps in some ways justified, is not the most strategically sound thing to do. In Singapore, I spoke a lot about the [...]

Video: How is your money spent?

Thanks for sending this by, Padma!

TELITI: Taiping-Banting Highway – Talam, Europlus, IJM (Pt 1)

I was asked by my boss to do a little research into the company that was awarded the contract to build the Taiping-Banting Highway.

Despite previous attempts, I’m no expert in doing corporate research, nor am I an industry insider. So part of the reason I’m posting this is to see whether people have got more [...]

Khaild Ibrahim on the EPF aquisition of RHB

I’m no expert on acquisition, but TS Khalid, Treasurer for PKR, does seem to raise some cogent and distressing points.

I happen to have an English version of his op-ed, enclosed below.

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