Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Dec 17th, 2007
When you agree to become a guarantor, you put yourself at considerable risk. Here is a news item that appears in The New Straits Times today (17 Dec 2007) that highlights the danger of standing as a guarantor. You can read the article in full below but before you do, let me add my little [...]
Posted in Investment, Rockwills & Estate planning on Dec 11th, 2007
There is a noteworthy item in The Star today about more young Malaysians buying burial plots and columbarium niches as a form of investment. What used to be a taboo subject is no longer off-limits in this modern age, especially among the more progressive Chinese. The trend to buy burial plots in up-market cemetery locations [...]
Posted in Penang on Dec 10th, 2007
PENANG, Dec 10 (Bernama) — Work on the construction of the RM3 billion Second Penang Bridge has begun with the completion of much of the preparatory work. The soil investigation work, which started in August, will be finished this month while topography surveys were completed in September and underwater survey works a month later. In [...]
Posted in NinaWang, Rockwills & Inheritance on Dec 10th, 2007
A Hong Kong court has appointed administrators to manage the multi-billion-dollar estate of the late Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang amid a legal tussle between a feng shui master and her family. The High Court granted an application made by feng shui master Chan Chun-chuen, who is claiming to be the sole beneficiary of Wang’s [...]
Posted in Chess, Rockwills & Estate planning on Dec 6th, 2007
I wouldn’t want to get into a theological discussion with anyone but I would say that death is just nature’s way of telling us that our time on this earth is up. Death can strike at the most unexpected moment. Last Sunday, death struck at a chess tournament. It was a chess tournament just like [...]
