The hot topic in the recent science and technology sector is that of artificial intelligence. While the topic of artificial intelligence has been around for the longest time in movies, in talks and by incremental developments in the technological sector,…
West Europe has long been a champion of green energy. In fact, they pride themselves on using a variety of clean energy in a polluted world. However, due to the Russian-Ukraine war and Germany’s political stand, Germany now has no…
The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been around for many years. The conflict between the Jews and the Muslims went back way even longer. As a race and as a different religion, these 2 factions has been at war…
In 1900, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and plundered it. Prior to that in 1884, the corrupted Qing Dynasty which ruled China at that time and led by Empress Dowager Cixi, spent a huge sum of money on reconstructing and…
Background One may have realise that it is always the West that has explored unchartered territories. The Asians seems to be always (though not all the time, as evident by TSMC and Samsung’s semiconductor industry) lagging behind. This has got…
On 29 August 2023, Huawei announced its latest smartphone series, the Huawei Mate 60 and Mate 60 Pro. The phone itself is nothing fanciful, but the components which made up the phone shocked the world. Huawei and China’s top chipmaker…
‘The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.’ This statement was widely attributed to either Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin or Vladimir Lenin. But regardless of who came up with this, it is a common perception…
200 years ago, the West sent drugs into China and plunged the country into chaos. The population became addicted to drugs and lost the will to fight and to work. Control of the people by the West was easy. China…
Singapore recently conducted an operation involving more than 400 police officers and arrested 10 people suspected in money laundering. The cash and assets confiscated are worth about 1 billion SGD (approx 736 million USD). This piece of news shocked many…
This will be the last article on property for this period, having written a series on rental, 1 article on capital appreciation and even side-tracked 1 article on fengshui. Today we will zoom out further on the economy. While no…
Japan is currently the third biggest economy in the world, behind US and China. The Yen is also the third most traded currency in the financial markets, behind the USD and the Euro. It also has the 8th largest gold…
Warren Buffett made news again for increasing his stake in 5 trading houses, namely Mitsubishi Corp, Mitsui & Co, Itochu Corp, Marubeni Corp and Sumitomo Corp. These 5 companies are Japan’s five largest trading companies which deal with a wide…