This post revolves around the recently concluded 2nd Nagorno Karabakh War but it is really about the Turkish people and Central Asia.  The Turkish people call themselves Tuurk. The very recent video here shows Turkish Special Forces rehearsing a Victory March in Baku in Azerbaijan. About 3,000 Turkish...

  1) Samsung and Apple factories going to Vietnam;  2) Tesla building a factory in Indonesia and even contemplating of SpaceX launchpad too.  3) Amazon invested building data center in Indonesia.  4) GRAB moved to Singapore.         5) Alibaba, Bytedance and Tencent etc all setting up...

https://www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/irregularities-in-bousteads-rm9-billion-combat-ship-project-what-you-need-to-know-270878  project awarded to Boustead Naval Shipyard in December 2011 Patriot’s Brigadier General (Rtd) Arshad Raji said trouble started in 2011He said defence minister Zahid Hamidi, contrary to RMN changed LCS design Request for change main factor for project delay, cost overrun, Arshad said. 1.     https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/12/18/zahid-said-wasnt-defence-minister-when-billions-paid-despite-warships-non-d/1933069 KL Dec...

annus horribilis :  NOUN,  a year of disaster or misfortune. AND THIS MUST BE RELATIVELY SPEAKING. Meaning when compared to other non Muslim people. At first I thought of saying ‘Islamic countries’ but the fact is there are Muslim groups or Muslim societies living amongst rich Western countries or amongst...

First lets look at the news. My comments follow. 1. Sabah DAP wants Brader Anwar Out KK : Pakatan Harapan semakin bergolak  pemimpin pembangkang lantang gesa Anwar berundur  Ketua Pemuda DAP Sabah, Phoong kata Anwar gagal menunaikan janji menjejaskan kredibiliti PHjanji Anwar untuk majoriti kuat tidak berhasilJanji (Anwar) tidak...

OSTB :  The Pakatan Harapan is about to break up.  Even if they do not break up two things are for certain : 1. The Brader’s role as kepala of the pembangkang is over. As good as dead and gone. 2. There is no more respect for PKR as top...

Suatu ketika dulu saya pernah berbincang dengan seorang professor sejarah di Universiti Malaya yang bertanya berkenaan perkatan ‘lebai’ (Pak Lebai dsbnya). Walaupun perkataan ‘lebai’ dan ‘pak lebai’ dikenali dan difahami oleh orang Melayu dan bahasa Melayu tetapi sahabat saya professor itu berkata asal usul ‘lebai’ tidak terjumpa dalam...

Hi folks. I was doing some reading and found the following from the teachings of Buddhism : Kalama Sutta –  The Buddha’s Charter of Free Inquiry translated from the Pali  The Instruction to the Kalamas The instruction of the Kalamas (Kalama Sutta) is justly famous for its encouragement of...

So what was Dr Mahathir’s Press Conference all about yesterday? Dr Mahathir said, tomorrow the Budget may not get approved, the government might fall, if frogs had wings they would fly, if  a donkey could sing the Negara Ku it could bla bla’. Well nothing of that sort...

Here is a fantastic story. There is something called the Career Astronaut Competition run by some (American?) outfit called AdvancingX.  Sounds like an Elon Musk outfit. It is a competition that is spread over FIVE years and over a few stages to select career astronauts to participate in space...