Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning, Rockwills & Inheritance on Jun 29th, 2009
A lawyer identified by Joseph Jackson as the family attorney has said Sunday night that he has not seen a will for Michael Jackson. The attorney also suggested that the singer’s mother would seek custody of his children. “There have been reports of one and we are trying to assess that now,” said New York-based attorney L. Londell [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning, Rockwills & Inheritance on Jun 29th, 2009
It’s been reported that battlelines are already being drawn for a fight over custody of Michael Jackson’s children and his estate. And this is happening just two days after his death. Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe who is the mother of the two oldest children – Michael Joseph, 12 and Paris, 11 – is reportedly considering [...]
Posted in Careers, Rockwills & Estate planning on Jun 28th, 2009
A job that delivers self-satisfaction By YIP YOKE TENG teng@thestar.com.my SOME people call it a grave decision. They are required to visit cemetery more often than anyone does, they need to talk to distraught persons who have lost their loved ones and they may even need to see their friends off to another world while [...]
Posted in General, Rockwills & Estate planning, Rockwills & Inheritance on Jun 28th, 2009
So Michael Jackson is dead. After the initial shock, focus has now turned to his last hour when his personal doctor was administering CPR. I’m not going to touch on that side of his death. Rather, I’m intrigued by the details that are slowly emerging about Jackson’s financial debt. Some reports said that his debt [...]
Posted in Chess on Jun 26th, 2009
Players in the Klang Valley are getting a taste of the long time control game format. FOR the past nine weeks, chess enthusiasts in the Klang Valley have been using an old chess format that has not seen the light of day for quite a while. How does a once-a-week, long time control game grab [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Inheritance on Jun 21st, 2009
Earlier this month, it was reported in the Singapore newspapers that a 25-year-old man who successfully took his paternal grandmother to court over ownership of a three-room flat in Bedok Reservoir is now suing her for contempt of court. The man, Garry Chee, had taken 87-year-old Foo Eng Ngoh to court nearly a year ago. [...]
Posted in Careers on Jun 20th, 2009
Not so long ago, I carried out a small experiment among college under-graduates. I was at a college in Penang to talk to some of their graduating students and I asked them suddenly: “What’s your email address?” I went up to each and everyone of them in the room, listening to them call out their [...]
Posted in Chess on Jun 19th, 2009
Seasoned player Mok Tze Meng shows his mettle at the international chess open tournament. LAST week turned out to be more pleasant than I thought possible. I met quite a number of old friends among the chess-playing participants and spectators at the (take a deep breath) Penang heritage city international chess open tournament. This was [...]
Posted in Chess on Jun 12th, 2009
It was a very tense national closed chess championship. THE air-conditioning was turned up full blast but neither the players nor the spectators noticed. Instead, everyone was feeling warm under the collar. Reason? For the first time in the 36-year history of the Malaysian Chess Federation (MCF), a four-player play-off had been forced in the [...]
Posted in economy on Jun 7th, 2009
A Reuters report from Washington today suggested that the strongest sign as appeared to show that the recession in the United States is diminishing. According to the report, even as the unemployment rate there had hit its highest level in nearly 26 years, the pace of job losses slowed sharply in May. The US Labor [...]
