Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2008
Like viruses, the Nigerian lottery scams or confidence tricks always have interesting mutations or variants. What started out originally as hardcopy letters that suddenly arrived in one’s letter boxes, these scams later progressed to emails. Emails are now the main avenues used by these scammers but still, there are inspired twists and turns to attract [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Inheritance on Jan 30th, 2008
It was reported in the New Straits Times today (30 Jan 2008) that the case of an inheritance of an insurance payout left by a woman’s son who died after converting to Islam has been rejected by the woman. Read my earlier report here. According to the woman’s lawyer, an undisclosed amount had been offered [...]
Posted in NinaWang on Jan 28th, 2008
Here is an interesting take on the Nina Wang court battle to date, as reported by Forbes Asia: The death of Hong Kong’s richest woman triggers a fight over her $4.2 billion fortune. Hong Kong’s richest woman, Nina Wang, died from ovarian cancer last April at age 69. But even in death, the woman known [...]
Posted in Careers on Jan 28th, 2008
According to the Malaysian Examinations Council that runs the Malaysian University English Test (MUET), only about 48 percent of candidates were able to achieve Band Three or higher in the latest MUET. The results, which were released late last week, showed that out of a total of 84,149 candidates, only 37 students were placed in [...]
Posted in General on Jan 26th, 2008
The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) will introduce two new initiatives effective 1 Feb 2008 to help improve the employment prospects of members above the age of 55 and to enhance financial security of all members upon retirement. For the first initiative, a person who continues to work after attaining 55 years of age is required [...]
Posted in General on Jan 22nd, 2008
I was reading through some old magazines and came across an article on selling. What sort of tactics do companies employ to multiply their profits? There are several universal tactics but generally, they fall under these broad categories: Cross-selling their other products at the point when a customer buys something from them; Up-selling by offering [...]
Posted in NinaWang on Jan 17th, 2008
Chinachem Charitable Foundation was accused yesterday of possibly having a “different agenda” when it asked for more time to respond to fung shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen’s demand to be awarded Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum’s entire estate. Chan’s lawyer, Jonathan Midgley, told the High Court it should not be drawn into “smaller incremental time lapses” [...]
Posted in Careers on Jan 8th, 2008
BANGI, Jan 8 (Bernama) — Having a good mastery of the English language does not make a Malaysian pro-British or less patriotic, says the wife of the Tunku Mahkota of Johor, Raja Zarith Sofia. Rather, she said, fluency in English and a good and strong command of it as a language was necessary in the [...]
I was surfing the Internet today and I came across a most unlikely position that you may find advertised: that of a Chief Beer Officer (CBO).That’s right, you didn’t read it wrong. A Chief Beer Officer. At the start of 2007, Sheration’s Four Points hotel chain had been looking for someone to fill this part-time [...]
