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Chennah is supposed to be a 50:50 bet. Trying to predict the outcome in Chennah – comprising 47% Malay, 44% Chinese, 7% Orang Asli and 2% India – is like predicting whether Argentina or Spain would win the 2026 FIFA World Cup. However, if the recently concluded Johor state election is any indicator, the incumbent for the Chennah state seat is in trouble. ...

Houthi militants have claimed attacks on two Saudi tankers in the Red Sea, threatening another important route for oil flows and stoking fears that the U.S.-Iran conflict could escalate further. As a result, oil prices jumped back to US$100 a barrel on Thursday before retreating, fueling a bond selloff and sending stocks sliding. Brent Crude futures...

Just when you thought Donald Trump was too busy with the Iran War, getting ready to bomb the Pickaxe Mountain believed to have been stashed with thousands of uranium-enrichment centrifuges, the U.S. president suddenly dropped started a new round of war. He announced an additional 50% tariff on certain goods from Canada, including wine, hockey sticks, cem...

Everyone knows that MCA (Malaysian Chinese Association) president Wee Ka Siong was among the first Barisan Nasional MPs who signed statutory declarations (SDs) backing Muhyiddin Yassin as Prime Minister during the chaotic political deadlock following the November 2022 national polls that produced a hung parliament. MCA is a component party of Barisan Nasional...

Argentina and England are not friends. They ​fought a short ‌conflict over the Falkland Islands in 1982, in which 649 Argentine ⁠soldiers and 255 ​British combatants died. Britain ultimately won, but the question of sovereignty over the ⁠islands ‌in the South Atlantic known to the British as the Falklands and the Argentines as the Malvinas has been ⁠a long-ru...