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Datukship for Rexy?

Chartry — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:16:31 +0800

2 world champion titles in 3 years. Make him a Datuk!

UKM graduate doctor suspended for performing CPR

Chartry — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:22:30 +0800

Happened in SG land.

UKM graduate Dr Ho Tze Woon performed CPR while the patient was still seated.

"Paramedics later arrived and took the patient to hospital, but the man died a week later.Dr Ho was later charged under the Medical Registration Act for failing to provide professional services of the quality expected of him, in failing to reposition the patient from a seated position to a supine position before performing CPR."

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/l...nt-died-3682431

This doctor has also been suspended in the past for 1)downloading and storing porn on a work device and 2) trying to sell regulated, erectile dysfunction drug to a non-patient.

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/docto...porn-polyclinic

MeRITS record shows the doctor is a UKM graduate

Unimas graduate doctor delayed urgent treatments

Chartry — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 02:15:42 +0800

Anyone know this Dr Wong Siong Sung who graduated from Unimas in 2000?

Got into trouble in Singapore for paying ambulance companies to bring patients to his establishment.

According to news:
"One allegation is that Dr Wong would run some patients through a battery of scans, many of which were not necessary, in order to inflate their bills, the report said...three patients were delayed from getting the urgent treatments they needed. One of the patients died."

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/doct...-needless-tests

Ho Ching, Singapore Prime Minister's wife reads Lowyat

Chartry — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 19:29:44 +0800

sos

What's her username? Please tag

Timah is on front page of Taiwan News

Chartry — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:30:00 +0800

QUOTE

TAIPEI (Taiwan News)— The winner of the International Whisky Competition's Best Malaysian Whisky award, Timah, is now available in Taiwan.

The whiskey was launched officially worldwide on Oct. 7 at a virtual press conference. Winepak Corporation directors Gilbert Yeo and Kenny Yeo explained the liquor's production process, while whiskey enthusiast and YouTuber "Whiskey Folks" presented an interesting cocktail preparations program.

Timah won silver medals at both the International Spirits Challenge 2020 (ISC) and the Annual San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2020 (SFWSC), according to Winepak's press release. The SFWSC judge called Timah "an outstanding spirit that displays refinement, finesse, and complexity."

The double-peated whisky is expected to win over whiskey lovers with its richness and complex flavor. The tipple is presently distributed in Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan, and will be available in more countries soon.

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4318308

Any mixed rice / chap fan fans here?

Chartry — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 15:28:56 +0800

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Who here order mixed rice like in this song?

Golden Melody Awards 2016 - Namewee

Chartry — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 22:55:46 +0800

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Live link

Best Male Mandarin Singer
Matzka
JJ Lin
Ko Chi-Tang
Namewee
Li Jian

Namewee stand any chance to win?

Update: JJ Lin won. Eason Chan, the presenter said Namewee's album , Asian Killer, best captures the spirit of this award as the nominees came from different region in Asia (1 MY, 1SG, 1CN, 2TW). He also said Namewee's lyrics and music videos are funny and he can sing pretty well

Last Malaysian who won Best Male Singer is Gary Cao in 2008.

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The Golden Melody Awards (simplified Chinese: 金曲奖; traditional Chinese: 金曲獎; pinyin: Jīn Qǔ Jiǎng) is an annual Taiwanese music award, founded in 1990, presented by the Ministry of Culture (Republic of China). It is usually presented in May, June or July each year and presented for music in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, and Formosan languages. It is the Taiwanese equivalent to the Grammy Awards.

Lee Kar Wei from Malaysian Idol

Chartry — Tue, 17 May 2016 00:41:07 +0800

Anyone remember Lee Kar Wei from Malaysia Idol? She is rejected by the judges.

She just released a new album.

She is now a huge star in Taiwan after she won the One Million Star singing contest.
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New songs
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Songs from previous albums
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Her performance at I am a Singer, China's most watched singing competition which features seasoned singers.
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Gardening expert or enthusiast please come in

Chartry — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:24:45 +0800

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Anyone can identify what tree is this? It is about one and a half years old and we believe it is a fruit tree. Please help. Thanks.

Best wrestling match ever! Who says it's all fake?

Chartry — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:31:25 +0800

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Better and realer than WWE.

IMF says USD is moderately overvalue

Chartry — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:01:17 +0800

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The International Monetary Fund waded into the debate over when the Federal Reserve should raise interest rates, calling on the central bank to wait until the first half of 2016 and cutting its U.S. growth forecast for the second time this year.
The lender also said that the dollar was “moderately overvalued” and a further marked appreciation would be “harmful,” in a statement released in Washington on Thursday on its annual checkup of the U.S. economy.
“We still believe that the underpinnings for continued expansion are in place,” IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said at a press briefing in Washington. “The inflation rate is not progressing at a rate that would warrant, without risk, a rate hike in the next few months.”
That means the Fed should wait until early 2016, even if there’s a risk of “slight overinflation” relative to the central bank’s 2 percent target, Lagarde said.

The lender’s call for caution comes as two Fed governors, Daniel Tarullo and Lael Brainard, cast doubt on the strength of the U.S. recovery from a first-quarter contraction. Both officials questioned whether the slump could be written off as the result of temporary effects including harsh winter weather.
Disappointing consumer and business spending this year raise questions about whether the U.S. has “lost momentum in the underlying performance in the economy,” Tarullo said Thursday at a conference in New York.
“There is value to watchful waiting while additional data help clarify the economy’s underlying momentum,” Brainard said on Tuesday in Washington.

Stronger Dollar
A stronger dollar, declining oil investment and a West Coast port strike in the first quarter will pull down U.S. growth to 2.5 percent this year, said the fund, which previously projected the world’s largest economy to expand by 3.1 percent in 2015. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg also expect U.S. growth of 2.5 percent this year.
Lagarde also spoke about the debt standoff between Greece and its creditors including the IMF, saying a joint proposal from the creditors this week “has clearly demonstrated significant flexibility.”

Greek Payment
She noted that Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras indicated that the nation would make a $339 million payment to the IMF due Friday; after Lagarde spoke, Greece told the IMF it would exercise an option to delay Friday’s payment and bundle it with three others into a lump sum on June 30.
Fed spokeswoman Michelle Smith declined to comment on the IMF’s rate recommendation.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen on May 22 said she still expects to increase interest rates this year if the economy meets her forecasts. The Fed, which hasn’t raised rates since 2006, will need to see continued improvement in the labor market and be “reasonably confident” that inflation will move back to 2 percent, she said.

Investors currently expect the Fed to move in December, according to bets placed in interest-rate futures markets.
The Fed’s policy-setting committee “should remain data dependent and defer its first increase in policy rates until there are greater signs of wage or price inflation than are currently evident,” the IMF said in its statement. Based on the fund’s economic forecast, and “barring upside surprises to growth and inflation, this would put lift-off into the first half of 2016.”

Blunt Advice
The fund’s latest U.S. monetary-policy advice is among its most explicit on record. In 2012, for instance, IMF staff suggested that further easing might be warranted if the outlook worsened, while in the crisis of 2008 they said rates “should stay on hold” until a recovery is established.
“The IMF is making a pronouncement on the Fed because the U.S. economy is still so important to the globe,” said Joe LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York, who expects a September rate increase. “The question is: Will the Fed listen and does it have any bearing on monetary policy decision-making? And my guess is no.”
The strengthening dollar and global disinflationary trends will probably weaken inflation pressures, according to the IMF.

Inflation Gauge
The personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation measure, increased 0.1 percent in April from a year earlier, marking the smallest 12-month gain since 2009, according to government figures.
“A sudden acceleration in wages or prices is unlikely,” the IMF said in the 10-page statement.
The fund’s advice to the Fed comes amid a global bond slump in recent weeks that’s sent rates on 10-year U.S. Treasuries and German bonds surging, as investors turn against record-low yields and react to an acceleration in Europe’s economy.
While Lagarde is saying the Fed should be guided by the latest economic reports, “you can’t be data dependent and then give a specific time frame” for raising rates, said Aneta Markowska, New York-based chief U.S. economist at Societe Generale SA.

Bigger Outflows
The risk of delaying rate increases is that they may need to be steeper, and markets “could re-price valuations in a more disorderly fashion,” Markowska said. “That could trigger even bigger outflows out of the emerging world.”
The dollar, which rose 13 percent in real effective terms over the past 12 months, is “moderately overvalued” and is hurting U.S. growth and hiring, the fund said.

“There is a risk that a further marked appreciation of the dollar -- particularly one that takes place in an environment where policies to address growth deficiencies languish both in the U.S. and abroad -- would be harmful.”
The report also discussed financial stability, with the IMF pointing to higher risks in shadow banking, a potential lack of liquidity in fixed-income markets, and greater market risk-taking in the insurance industry.

- IMF opines US Fed should postpone to first half 2016 and cuts US growth forecast for the second time this year
- USD is currently moderately overvalue and will drag down US growth

SOS KICAP

Thousands of emails from Lowyat.net

Chartry — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:42:35 +0800

I've received over 1900 emails from Lowyat since yesterday. I'm receiving notifications for every threads created in the Kopitiam section although I did not subscribe it. Please look into this. Thanks!

Air Pollutant Index is now updated every hour

Chartry — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:11:50 +0800

API readings are now available every hour. This is how the monitoring stations looks like.

Sos

Malaysia in 2023

Chartry — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:36:04 +0800

QUOTE

14 September 2023

I am proud and grateful to be a Malaysian.
Last year, I moved into a new house in Damansara. Mother told me that once upon a time,
only the very wealthy people can afford to stay in Damansara since all the houses there are
super luxurious worth millions of ringgit. Praise God, after the government implemented
affordable housing programmes on a large scale, young people like me are also able to buy
an affordable house here.

I work in an engineering design firm in Petaling Jaya. My boss is a young guy, he used to
work in the United States with several reputable firms there. We design and produce smart
computer chips for the latest electronic gadgets. The designs we invent are sent to factories
in China to be manufactured for the global market.

My family lives comfortably. My wife is an accountant who works for an international company.
She works mostly from home. Malaysia’s broadband access which is the world’s best, allows
many mothers like her, to work from home while spending quality time with their children.
Young families like us are thankful for the economic opportunities in the country. Our salary
is more than enough to cater for our daily needs. We are able to save 30% of our salaries for
long-term investments. We can afford to go on vacation every year and we have also created
a trust fund for our two young children for their future.

Malaysia is respected in Southeast Asia and in the world. Kuala Lumpur is the capital of
Southeast Asia and is now recognized as the fifth best global city to live in. It is the only city
that maintains the cultural heritage of various ethnic groups living harmoniously in every
aspect of life. The opening of the headquarters of the Islamic World Central Bank in 2019
further highlights the position of Kuala Lumpur as one of the world’s top five financial centers.
I am proud of Malaysia because it is the envy of countries from the East and the West.
Each of our large cities from Perlis to Johor, Kelantan to Kuala Lumpur is connected by high
speed green-technology railway. Administrative activities and government departments are
distributed throughout the country and the efficient public transportation network eases the
lives of the people.

Malaysians are the richest people in Southeast Asia today. No family here earns a monthly
income less than RM4,000. There are land owners, who were at one time called settlers, that
are now agricultural and small industry millionaires who have successfully developed their
land.

Other countries admire the peace we have in Malaysia despite our very diverse and different ethnic groups. Regional peace resulting from ethnic unity is strengthened further by the professionalism and efficiency of the Malaysian Armed Forces which is recognized as the best
defence force in the Southeast Asia.

Most importantly, I am proud that the Malaysian administration has proven its ability to
distribute and create prosperity for everyone.

Our Heritage Fund which was set up ten years ago, has now reached RM124 billion, thanks to
all the oil and gas revenues that we saved for the future. People enjoy free education up to
university level and good free health facilities. Malaysia is also the only country in the region
to provide a contribution scheme to wives as part of its national welfare safety net system.
When I travel to other countries on business trips, I am proud that my country is highly
regarded. They admire our ability to practice democracy. Our independent judiciary sets
international benchmarks. Our economic success is built around economic activities of our
highly innovative, competitive and nimble small and medium industries (SMIs). It is a model
of success that is emulated by other economies.

I am grateful that Malaysia is on the right track today due to the sound decision taken
collectively by us, the rakyat, ten years ago in the 2013 general election. That was my first
time voting. Now, as I look upon this life that we have achieved as a nation, with greater
optimism for the future of Malaysia, I am proud that I was part of the generation that fought
for change. I am proud to have transformed the fate of our nation that year.

Muhammad Adlan bin Azrul
Damansara

Do you believe Malaysia could archieve this in 2023?

East Coast Expressway

Chartry — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:54:49 +0800

I'm going to Kijal and Kuala Terengganu next month. Anyone know what is the status of the Phase 2 of East Coast Expressway. I heard that some stretch of the road is opened this year.

In Kuantan, can I go straight to Kijal and then Kuala Terengganu using the East Coast Expressway? If not, which stretch of the expressway is opened?

East Coast Expressway

Chartry — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:20:12 +0800

I'm going to Kijal and Kuala Terengganu next month. Anyone know what is the status of the Phase 2 of East Coast Expressway. In Kuantan, can I go straight to Kijal and then Kuala Terengganu using the East Coast Expressway?

KTM Putra to PWTC pedestrian bridge

Chartry — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:12:09 +0800

Is the newly opened pedestrian bridge in Putra World Trade Centre links to Putra KTM? Thanks!

29 Februari

Chartry — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:56:57 +0800

Anyone has watched this movie? What do you think about it?

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29 Februari

Chartry — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:09:25 +0800

Anyone has watched this movie? Nice?

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When DLCW back Malaysia?

Chartry — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:52:00 +0800

When is Lee Chong Wei's returning flight to Malaysia? Jom we go ramai-ramai sambut our hero