Posted in Careers on Nov 28th, 2008
How will the global economic woes affect jobseekers in the next few months? We ran a survey here in Malaysia earlier this month and it seems that a vast majority of the jobseekers we contacted believed that good jobs are still available but there are less of such opportunities. So the word is out. Unless [...]
Posted in Chess on Nov 28th, 2008
IT WOULD be ideal if I could tell you that our representatives in Dresden – where they had been playing in the Chess Olympiad – had played well but then I would be stretching the truth. Fact is, the results of the Malaysian team could have been better. It was not the losses against the [...]
Posted in General on Nov 22nd, 2008
From Thursday’s edition of The Straits Times, it’s reported that researchers in Singapore have confirmed that taking the illegal sex-enhancement drug Power 1 Walnut can cause severe brain damage, after studying the brains of eight men who took it.Scientists from the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to find lesions and plaque [...]
Posted in Chess on Nov 21st, 2008
I DON’T know which is the greater frustration, the inability to get a fast connection to the official website of the Dresden chess Olympiad or learning that our Malaysian team had not much success against the better teams at this event. As I was writing this week’s story, five rounds of the chess Olympiad have [...]
Posted in NinaWang on Nov 15th, 2008
The late Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang had an affair with a feng shui master at the centre of an increasingly bitter legal tussle over her will, his lawyer said yesterday. Tony Chan had a longstanding relationship with the eccentric billionaire, who died aged 69 of cancer in 2007, his solicitor Jonathan Midgley said. “They [...]
Posted in NinaWang on Nov 15th, 2008
From the Hongkong Standard yesterday (14 Nov 2008): The lawyer of Feng Shui master Tony Chan Chun-chuen spoke of the intimate relations between Chan and late Chinachem Group chairwoman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum this morning outside the High Court. “They knew each other affectionately for some 14 to 15 years, Nina Wang would have been [...]
Posted in Chess on Nov 14th, 2008
International chess events continue to come at us fast and furious. WHO says chess moves along at a slow pace? No sooner did the world chess championship end than another event has started. This time, it is the biennial Chess Olympiad. This year’s Olympiad is being played in Dresden, Germany. The second round is being [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Nov 11th, 2008
This is the new home for the Penang branch of Rockwills Corporation Sdn Bhd, located just a stone’s throw from the Queensbay Mall. Wisma Rockwills Penang was declared open by Dato Seri Goh Eng Toon on 10 Nov 2008. Present at the occasion were Johari Low and Saw Leong Aun.
Posted in NinaWang on Nov 11th, 2008
Some updates here regarding the legal battle over the inheritance of Nina Wang’s billion-dollar estate: According to reports from Hong Kong, it has been suggested that she had signed over her vast fortune to a feng shui master after he promised her eternal life. At Monday’s hearing in Hong Kong’s High Court, barrister Geoffrey Vos [...]
Posted in Chess on Nov 7th, 2008
A draw in the 11th game at the world championships last Wednesday was enough for Viswanathan Anand to retain his title. SO IT came to pass that Viswanathan Anand did not require a 12th game to retain his world chess championship crown. After the loss in the 10th game, both he and Vladimir Kramnik played [...]
