Taiwan’s Nationalist party, the Kuomintang, which had been drawing closer to China in business and diplomacy, suffered a crushing defeat in local elections. The result has been variously attributed to the rising cost of living, protests over trade deals, and concerns over authoritarian China’s influence in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
A press conference in Park Royal Hotel in Batu Ferringhi to express concern about a high-rise housing project near a low-density low-rise neighbourhood was disrupted by a rowdy group using rough language this evening.
Remember how MOLPay recently wrote to Zunar saying it was being asked to furnish details of the customers of his online transactions to the police?
All of a sudden, MOL has bigger problems than a pesky popular cartoonist:
MOL Global Inc – Nasdaq share price chart
Now, MOLPay is a payments solution for online merchants that comes under MOL Global Inc, whose headquarters are in KL.
Vincent Tan is the single largest shareholder (according to The Star) with a 45 per cent stake.
The US stock market (Dow Jones) in 2014:
The Malaysian stock market in 2014:
Reuters attributes the plunge in Malaysian and Singapore share prices to weaker oil and gas prices. But is that the only reason?
A waterspout was spotted in the northern channel of Penang on 26 November 2014.
It is the latest in unusual weather phenomena in the northern region, coming on the heels of a mini-tornado in Kedah a few weeks earlier.
This polls ends at 5.00pm today.
Here’s is the reformist Najib speaking:
And the ultimate ‘gostan’.
What a letdown.
Blog reader Ed G writes:
The ISA was enacted in 1960 after Malayan independence. The then Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, defined the purpose of the act as to “be used solely against the communists… My Cabinet colleagues and I gave a solemn promise to Parliament and the nation that the immense powers given to the government under the ISA would never be used to stifle legitimate opposition and silence lawful dissent”.
It is everything we have come to expect of an Umno general assembly: the shrill voices, the diversionary topics, the silence on critical issues facing the country, the play on race and religion to shore up support.
Dasha Logan, who credits her late father Alleycats’ vocalist Loganathan Arumugam as her inspiration, has hit the big time in the UK with a soul number, Cleverly.
And here’s the proof:
Talk about pusing balik. Just reading this is enough to make my stomach pusing after lunch: Najib has declared at the Umno assembly that the Sedition Act would not only be retained but strengthened…
GDP per capita (in real terms, after adjustment for inflation) now is apparently six to seven times more than it was in 1970, but do you feel much better off?
David sends us this observation:
On a recent stopover at Pantai Shamrock, along the Tanjung Bungah/Batu Feringghi road, I bring to your attention a condition that I feel is breaching regulations.
The Malaysian stock market in 2014:
Reuters attributes the plunge in Malaysian and Singapore share prices to weaker oil and gas prices. But is that the only reason? 
The plunge in global oil prices will lead to much lower Petronas – and consequently, government – revenue and worsen the government’s fiscal deficit. 
The forum in Penang this Saturday is being organised by Suaram and Aliran.