Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning, Rockwills & Inheritance on Mar 31st, 2008
It was an accident that claimed four lives, and the only survivor of the horror car crash in Tangkak, Johor was a two-month-old baby girl. In last Thursday’s accident, Jolene Bong was flung 10 metres away while her parents, maternal grandmother and brother died as a result of injuries. Today, the Nanyang Siang Pau wrote [...]
Posted in Penang on Mar 30th, 2008
The newspapers are giving coverage to this news item. Penang Port is warning that they will discontinue the vehicular ferry services once the Penang Bridge expansion project is completed. This may mean Year 2010. But should the vehicular services be stopped? Right now, Penang Port claims that they are losing money on ferrying cars and [...]
Posted in Chess on Mar 28th, 2008
I RECEIVED a telephone call from Datuk Tan Chin Nam’s office last week. Tan, in case you don’t know, is the president of the Malaysian Chess Federation. The call was an invitation to dinner in Kuala Lumpur. “You must come,” insisted Choo Min Wang, Malaysia’s first national master. “Datuk wants this to be an informal [...]
Posted in Investment on Mar 26th, 2008
It has been announced by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi that Bursa Malaysia’s main and second boards will be combined into a unified board. Also, the Mesdaq market will be transformed into a sponsor-driven market. The two boards would be combined into a unified board for more established companies with strong financial track records. “The [...]
Posted in General on Mar 21st, 2008
IT’S ALWAYS the case that when tournaments run smoothly without a hitch, it doesn’t make for any excitement. Okay, the success of the event is a credit to the organisers and the tournament director but where is its newsworthiness? I’m not suggesting that chess tournaments should be mired in controversy or scandal. Oh no, I’d [...]
Posted in Penang on Mar 19th, 2008
by Stephen Tan, in MySinChew, 17 Mar 2008 The Opposition Democratic Action Party (DAP) is now enjoying the electoral euphoria that the Gerakan experienced on May 10, 1969, but the latter was summarily consigned to political oblivion after a period of slightly less than 39 years. A succinct difference between the respective Gerakan and DAP [...]
This is reproduced from today’s The Star newspaper (18 Mar 2008). it’s all about an exclusive response by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to questions received from the newspaper’s readers. It’s well worth documenting but beware…it’s quite long: What’s brewing for Penang? Penang’s new Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng answers queries sent in by [...]
Posted in Penang on Mar 18th, 2008
We will know by July whether George Town, together with Malacca, will be successful in making it to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (Unesco) list of world heritage sites. If successful, George Town and malacca will join Mount Kinabalu and the Mulu National Park as the country’s only world heritage sites. According [...]
Posted in General on Mar 14th, 2008
This is a news item in the Star today. It is a cause of concern, and my comment is that people should look to real financial planners to help plan their retirement and not people selling insurance and unit trusts, and passing themselves off as qualified financial planners: KUALA LUMPUR: More than half of Malaysian [...]
Posted in Chess on Mar 14th, 2008
Committee members in chess associations give of their time voluntarily. Have you had enough of the general election? I know I have. I’m satiated with the unending news and analysis about what went right or wrong for the political parties. I’ve had enough of the vicious campaigning that went on day after day, and even [...]
