Posted in Careers on Feb 27th, 2010
This is from a Bernama report today. The Ministry of Higher Education cited a study by the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers to give the top five reasons for unemployment among university graduates. The first two reasons are a lack of industrial training and a poor command of the English language. Other factors are low problem-solving [...]
Posted in Chess on Feb 26th, 2010
Chess development in the country will be given a boost with the arrival of Bangladeshi grandmaster Ziaur Rahman. THERE are a number of interesting chess activities coming up in the next two or three weeks. First up is the news that we shall have Bangladeshi grandmaster Ziaur Rahman stationed here in Malaysia for the next [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Feb 20th, 2010
Here’s an interesting story picked up from a London online newspaper. Interesting read. When Dr Christine Gill last month successfully challenged her mother’s will, which had bequeathed the £2 million family farm in North Yorkshire to the RSPCA, it was just the latest in an increasingly long line of disputes over wills to have been [...]
Posted in Chess on Feb 19th, 2010
Veselin Topalov heads the field at the Linares. THIS week, we are caught in the midst of the Linares tournament. The Linares super-grandmaster tournament, like the Corus event three weeks ago, is considered one of the elite tournaments which make up the chess version of a Grand Slam. Only the best in the chess world [...]
Posted in Chess on Feb 12th, 2010
This year’s calendar of chess activities looks decently full. THE biggest story last week was the welcome news that chess, together with 10 other sports, have been reinstated into the calendar of the Malaysian Schools Sports Council (MSSM). Well, I don’t know how long this is going to last but at least for this year, [...]
Posted in Careers on Feb 11th, 2010
What should you do if you are an unemployed professional in the job market with years of skilled experience? According to a placement consultant in the United States, don’t act desperate when you approach potential employers. “It’s a bad idea,” said Arleen Gallagher of Adecco. She said that if you come across as desperate, the [...]
Posted in Rockwills & Estate planning on Feb 10th, 2010
Here’s a story picked up from TimesOnline recently. It asked the question of whether you’d want to be an executor and it went on to describe the burden of being it. Interesting read. No one tells you how time-consuming death is. The Four Last Things ought to be Death, Judgment, Heaven – and Probate. That [...]
Posted in Chess on Feb 5th, 2010
Young chess talents from around the world are making their mark in the sport. IF I’m tasked with drawing up a wish list of the top three chess events to follow through the Internet this year, I wouldn’t have any problem in identifying the world chess championship match this April between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin [...]
Posted in NinaWang on Feb 4th, 2010
A reuters report says that Hongkong police have arrested the feng shui master at the heart of a multi-billion dollar battle for the fortune of the late tycoon Nina Wang after a court ruled her will was likely forged. Police picked up Tony Chan from his luxury home late on Wednesday evening and seized some evidence.A [...]
Posted in NinaWang, Rockwills & Inheritance on Feb 2nd, 2010
A Reuters report says that a will leaving late Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang’s entire US$4 billion estate to her former lover and feng shui master was declared a forgery today and the money will instead go to charity.Wang, known as “Little Sweetie”, was one of Asia’s wealthiest women with a business empire which included [...]
