UPDATED VERSION. One day after the unveiling of the much-hyped mini budget, the KL Composite Index (KLCI) on Bursa Malaysia dropped 4.88 points to close at 850.57. Trading volume was thin with 3,751,286 lots changing hands. Losers lead gainers 435 by 219 with Nestlé, Public Bank, KL Kepong and Burs...

BLOGGING FROM PARLIAMENT Does the federal government have the money to see through Budget 2009 announced in September, and the RM7 billion Stimulus Package in November 2008? The sluggish execution of both fiscal measures indicates that Putrajaya is pretty tied at its purse-strings. Hence, there was ...

UPDATED VERSION. The ball is now back to the Sultan's court. The emergency sitting of the Perak State Assembly was convened this morning, with three motions passed by the 28 members who attended it. The original Perak Menteri Besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin said after the sitting that three motions ...

It's SMART vs. SMUT. Chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Ahmad Said Hamdan said the titles of the video clips found in his son’s laptop computer were misleading and not pornographic as charged and fined in Australia. “I can bet with you that it’s something tha...

The Pakatan Rakyat coalition lost control of the Perak state government in a political coup d'etat but it's the BN and the royal family that received the cock-up royale. Merdeka Centre for Opinion Polls made an opinion survey in Perak on February 8, three days after BN announced its new menteri besa...

I made a half-day visit to Ipoh yesterday to spend time and exchange opinion with the local folks, and to lend moral support to the people-elected MB Mohd Nizar Jamaludin and his colleagues at the exco. At the coffee shops shaking legs with the local people, they shared with me some political jokes ...

I had the misfortune of foretelling something about Perak on May 13 last year. What I said took months, not days, to unfold. As you know by now, the equation has changed in Perak politics, and it will change forever in the next few hours when Malaysia wakes up again to greet February 5, 2009. For no...

Do you still believe your TM-Streamyx works hard to give you their 'best-effort' speed, or Celcom HSPA can do 3.6Mbps? Or do you want to know if you're actually getting what you're paying for to the ISPs? Yesterday, Google Inc. launched an online tool that allows researchers and consumers measure In...

Spreading rumours through the SMS is serious offence. So, I must believe there's solid truth in what I received from Star SMS Alert at 12:14hr just now (UPDATES: Both Star Online and Bernama confirmed the Star SMS Alert at 15:26hr and 15:49hr, respectively.) Umno discipline committee chairman Tengku...

As far as United Arab Emirates (UAE) is concerned, Malaysia is doomed right from Day One of 2009. Malaysia doesn't seem to feature well in the eyes of investment advisors, and those of the headline-writers in the newsroom, over there. Really, which Malaysian monkey had spoilt the soup for most of us...