Posted in Rockwills & Inheritance on Nov 30th, 2007
It looks that there is some light at the end of the tunnel for 61-year-old cleaner M Rukumony who took the Amanah Raya Berhadand the Koperasi Angkatan Tentera Malaysia Berhad to court over an insurance claim. Read my earlier report here. What happened was that the co-operative took out a policy on her son who [...]
Posted in Penang on Nov 27th, 2007
Should I be disappointed with the Penang state government? I was, initially, and it was because of this news item: A week after Chief Minister Dr Koh Tsu Koon denied at the State Assembly that there were serious cracks on the Penang Bridge, State Exco member Koay Kar Huah admitted in the same House today [...]
Posted in Penang on Nov 23rd, 2007
Is this is how Penang Sentral in Butterworth will look like when the project is completed in three years’ time? The RM2 billion transportation hub under the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) was launched by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in July. Penang Sentral is broadly modeled after the KL Sentral in the sense that [...]
Posted in General on Nov 22nd, 2007
A recent Bernama news item says that more than 15,000 people applied to withdraw their Employees Provident Fund (EPF) savings to finance their own or their children’s education. In Q3 of this year, this amounted to RM87.1mil which was a 51.5 percent increase from the RM57.5mil withdrawn in Q2. EPF attributed this increase to a [...]
Posted in Penang on Nov 21st, 2007
I came across this report by Bernama yesterday in which Penang’s chief minister, Dr Koh Tsu Koon, stressed that the on-going repairs on the Penang Bridge are routine and nothing to worry about. According to the report, Koh said the repair work has nothing to do with any crack as alleged by certain quarters. “The [...]
Posted in Investment on Nov 20th, 2007
This article is reproduced from the Bursa Pursuit website. It’ll be useful if you intend to take part in their Challenge Game which runs from 1 Oct 2007 until 30 Nov 2007. GOLDEN RULE 6: Develop Your Own Trading Plan Trading is about probabilities, not certainties. A Trading Plan establishes a series of steps that [...]
Posted in NinaWang on Nov 18th, 2007
A feng shui master claiming to be the sole beneficiary of the late Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang’s multi-billion dollar fortune kicked off a legal battle over her estate Monday. Representatives of Chan Chun-chuen and Chinachem Charitable Foundation, run by Wang’s family, appeared in court for the first time over her estate after the former [...]
Posted in General on Nov 18th, 2007
This is an excerpt of a news story that appeared in The Sunday Times today (18 Nov 2007). Headlined English is a burden for rural kids, it read: The use of English to teach Science and Mathematics at primary schools needs to be stopped. In making the call yesterday, Health Ministry parliamentary secretary Datuk Lee [...]
Posted in Investment on Nov 17th, 2007
This article is reproduced from the Bursa Pursuit website. It’ll be useful if you intend to take part in their Challenge Game which runs from 1 Oct 2007 until 30 Nov 2007. When to buy and sell One of the benefits of investing in the stock market is that you can do it after trading [...]
Posted in Investment on Nov 15th, 2007
This article is an excerpt reproduced from the Bursa Pursuit website. It’ll be useful if you intend to take part in their Challenge Game which runs from 1 Oct 2007 until 30 Nov 2007. Buying And Selling Stocks The thought of buying and selling stocks can seem daunting for a beginner but it is quite [...]
