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what’s your employment composition?

UPDATED: 12/09/07, 12:55 AM read from AP press.’malaysia orders companies to reveal recruitment figured by race’. excerpt: Puan Chan Cheong, managing director of broadband technology provider Green Packet Bhd., said firms need to hire people who are "the best fit for the job, regardless of race," in order to compete …

can recommend cheap budget hotel in langkawi?

i’ll be going to langkawi this weekend… no, not on a holiday but on a mission actually. more about it later. this is just a short post to ask if anyone can recommend a good budget hotel in langkawi. we are very tight on budget and would like to have …

another cartoon crisis?

who can ever forget the danish cartoon issue which sent scores of muslim into riot, burning flags and houses and even murder. the trumpet reported that a sweedish daily had published a cartoon depicting the prophet mohammed’s head on the body of a dog. the trumpet wonder because of this, …

budget 2008 in brief…

…as taken from malaysiakini. please support malaysiakini by subscribing for as low asRM10 for 20 days / RM15 per month to RM150 per year. details here. Malaysiakini7 Sept. 2007Salient points in 2008 Budgethttp://www.malaysiakini.com/news/72126 The following are the salient points in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ‘s 44-page Budget  speech entitled …

penang global city centre

gee, i thought i prided myself that i know of current issues/news but how come i don’t know i.e haven’t heard of the penang global city centre (PGCC) project (and to think it is penang, my hometown, where i am now!!), until 2 days ago when i came across it …

ktemoc goes all ‘piggy’

… i mean in his posts. 🙂 …on the issue of the melaka state government trying to cull pigs in paya mengkuang, melaka. ktemoc, the very articulate out-spoken good blogger friend of mine, had 3 posts up on it already and there is still part 4 coming up. do read …

shame! shame! stealing an old lady’s money!

… a 73 years old lady, pachiammal, a grandmother from tangkak. johor. (picture left) She had a worried look in her  face and said she regretted putting her hard-earned cash into Maika. When asked if she was still hopeful of getting her money back, she appeared dumbfounded and declined to …