All posts tagged "singapore"
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8.8KHistoryThe story of how a RM1 billion mansion in KL was gifted to the Brits… by Tunku
[This article is based on one written by SOSCILI. To read the article in BM, click here!] If you’ve watched the...
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981BusinessA 5-min guide on the biggest gold trading scandal in Malaysia, involving 35,000 M’sians
When times get tough, people would sought various ways to make money like trading gold. And we’re not only talking about your...
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2.0KHistoryIn 1915, British Malaya lost Singapore to a mutiny. So they got help from… the Japanese
When you think of Malaya in World War 1, you probably wouldn’t think it was a major part of our history. After...
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1.2KBusinessWhat’s this Penang foreign worker dorm project that’s linked to Guan Eng’s graft scandal?
Just recently, the former Finance Minister, Lim Guan Eng was charged with power abuse and money laundering in relation to the award...
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2.3KCultureThere isn’t enough land to bury the dead in KL. Do we have to dig up old graves now?
One of the many questions about death that we would be curious to find out would be how our lives would end....
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1.5KBusinessIn the 80s, an MCA president was jailed in two countries – but may not have been guilty.
Tan Koon Swan, former MCA president, must have been one of the unluckiest Malaysian-Chinese politicians in history. Not only was he sacked...
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6.8KCultureOne of Malaya’s original independence fighters… was a Jewish lawyer
Malaysia’s relationship with the international Jewish community is a tricky one to say the least. Despite the fact that we seem to have a...
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966InternationalHere’s how Bomba’s elite team wins this international challenge almost every year
Just recently, our Bomba guys uploaded a video on Facebook that went viral: The 3 minute video, which had over 500k views...
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533CultureHere’s why were there hundreds of protesters in Penang this morning
(This article originally appeared May 2019, but has been updated following recent developments.) There’s this old saying that we just made...
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2.4KBusinessHow the founder of Maybank allegedly cheated BILLIONS from the Sultan of Brunei
Thanks to the lightning-pace of information exchange in modern times, there isn’t much you can get away with these days (especially when it involves...
