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Rail Map from Johor Bahru Master Plan 2035

TruboXL — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:05:25 +0800

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Malaysia borned fuck up US private credit

TruboXL — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 09:45:41 +0800

(Oct 11): Patrick James, the little-known chief executive officer of bankrupt First Brands Group, is weighing stepping down as fallout from the auto-parts supplier’s swift collapse reverberates across Wall Street.

James is considering “relinquishing his role as CEO,” his spokesperson said in an emailed statement. He “has always put the interests of First Brands Group ahead of his own and is evaluating his best path forward to help maximise value for its customers, suppliers, employees and lenders.”

The Financial Times earlier reported the comment from James’ spokesperson.

Meanwhile, Patrick James’ younger brother, Ed, has already stepped down from his senior role at First Brands, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the move isn’t public. Bloomberg News reported this week that he had been the point person for many of the company’s deals, and that potential investors recalled he was dismissive and impatient when asked for more information.

Efforts in recent days to reach Ed James through emails and phone numbers associated with him were unsuccessful.

The shakeup among First Brands’ top ranks, roughly two weeks after its Chapter 11 filing, intensifies questions over how a growing list of financial firms missed red flags surrounding the company that Patrick James built through a series of aggressive debt-fuelled acquisitions.

As of First Brands’ Sept. 28 filing, its sprawling network of auto-parts factories and distribution centres was on the hook for over US$10 billion (RM42.23 billion) to some of the biggest firms on Wall Street. One of its creditors has alleged that as much as US$2.3 billion has “simply vanished”.

The Justice Department is looking into the circumstances around the First Brands collapse, Bloomberg News reported this week.

Patrick James maintained a low profile, with the few public records that mention him indicating he grew up in Malaysia before attending the College of Wooster in Ohio. After working at a mergers and acquisitions firm, James started buying local manufacturers in the auto industry through a network of holding companies and subsidiaries.

A unit of Fortress Investment Group sued some of the companies in 2011, claiming they had obscured James’ controlling interest and that the companies “share employees and management, do not have separate books and records, have the same address in Solon, Ohio, and are grossly undercapitalised.”

James and his businesses denied the accusations, but paid to settle the case and another that alleged fraud two years earlier.

https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/773698

NASA: Potential alien evidence on Mars 👽

TruboXL — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:10:07 +0800

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[Mobile] Missing Topic Starter and Last post by

TruboXL — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:09:15 +0800

Please add "Topic Starter" and "Last post by" in "Posts since your last visit". Seems to be only missing in mobile view. Highlighted areas may places desirable to add them. It's possible to add them like in Kopitiam subforum mobile view.

Damn stressful to open thread just to see it's some spammer posting useless thread and reporting them does not have any effect.

Google Keynote IO 2021

TruboXL — Wed, 19 May 2021 01:52:58 +0800

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Nobody open thread

/k vaccine phase poll

TruboXL — Sun, 02 May 2021 14:58:48 +0800

Just want to know /k situation and opinion
It's not really clear from KKM how the rollout data
who still waiting, who still wait and see

Maybe can do monthly, just to see some metric
You can troll if you want

Inb4 PN reactive not proactive

Edit: it's dose 1, dose 2 not phases

Result Census 2020 sudah keluar!

TruboXL — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:08:15 +0800

https://themalaysianreserve.com/2021/02/10/...ands-at-32-73m/

QUOTE

by BERNAMA

PUTRAJAYA – Malaysia’s population is estimated at 32.73 million in the fourth quarter of 2020, an increase by 0.4 per cent from 32.59 million in the same period of 2019, according to the Demographic Statistics report.

Chief Statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin in a statement today said based on the report, the country’s total population comprised 29.85 million or 91.2 per cent citizens and 2.87 million or 8.8 per cent non-citizens.

Males outnumbered females at 16.83 million and 15.90 million, respectively.

Mohd Uzir said the population composition of those aged 0 to 14 years decreased from 7.63 million in the fourth quarter of 2019 to 7.57 million in the same period of 2020.

A total of 468,975 live births were recorded in 2020 with 121,251 of them in the fourth quarter of that year, a decline by 2.5 per cent from 124,384 in the same quarter of 2019.

The population composition of those aged 65 years and above increased from 2.24 million to 2.34 million during the same period.

“This trend is in line with other developed countries that are heading towards an ageing population,” Mohd Uzir said.

A total of 174,313 deaths were reported in 2020 with 44,390 of them in the fourth quarter of that year, a drop by 0.4 per cent from 44,566 in the same quarter of 2019.

https://www.dosm.gov.my/v1/index.php?r=colu...klWdzQ4TlhUUT09

[Mobile] "Latest" button not working

TruboXL — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:56:16 +0800

-- Please keep your post concise to ensure a speedy review from us. We suggest 250 words or less. --

There used to be a thread that report this issue but I can't find it anymore

Anyway here's an update which found the problem

Some threads for example
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=5063396&hl=

Has a broken "Latest" button link
That takes you to the Forum Index
https://forum.lowyat.net/5063396/latest

Instead of properly redirect you to the last posts
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5063396/latest

Some threads do not show symptoms so I can't tell how it happened
It may happened that the above thread may be working perfectly for you right now

Singapore PM addressing coronavirus update

TruboXL — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 21:06:07 +0800

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7:08 Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (DORSCON) will not go to red level anytime soon

inb4 pm tepi tegur https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4918845&hl=

+60169486654

TruboXL — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 01:58:51 +0800

Avoid and block this guy if you see that number, sends hatred messages

Probably Indian because of the use of Tamil language...

What happened to Folding@Malaysia forum?

TruboXL — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 08:54:38 +0800

Starred this forum long time ago
Now listed at Protected
So Folding@Malaysia team is disbanded?
What about the World Community Grid one?
Fancy me trying to keep Lowyat.NET at WCG #2 in Malaysia lol
If so I think I will switch team then...

Windows Vista EOL

TruboXL — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 13:00:50 +0800

You will not be missed. M$FT ended support on 11 April 2017.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22...-end-of-support

Next stop, Windows 7 End Of Life, 14 January 2020.

In other news, Windows Creators Update released.

Ubuntu abandons Unity DE

TruboXL — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 12:54:20 +0800

https://insights.ubuntu.com/2017/04/05/grow...nd-convergence/

and so Unity empire has fallen,

but why ditch all those Qt resources and efforts and go back to GNOME3-centric GTK?

Why the dislikes in the video?

TruboXL — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:31:15 +0800

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ada promote equality mah...

and the action scenes so good...

Organ farming with...

TruboXL — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 22:20:48 +0800

TLDR Look for BOLD words

Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists.

It is the first proof chimeras - named after the mythical lion-goat-serpent monster - can be made by combining material from humans and animals.

However, the scientific report in the journal Cell shows the process is challenging and the aim of growing human organs in animals is distant.

It was described as an "exciting publication" by other researchers.

To create a chimera, human stem cells - the type that can develop into any tissue - are injected into a pig embryo.

copyright Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
The spherical pig embryo is held in place while a tiny needle is used to inject human cells

The embryo - now a mix of human and pig - is then implanted into a sow for up to one month.

The process appears very inefficient - of the 2,075 embryos implanted only 186 continued to develop up to the 28-day stage.

But crucially there were signs that human cells were functioning - albeit as a tiny fraction of the total tissue - as part of a human-pig chimera.

"This is the first time that human cells are seen growing inside a large animal," Prof Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, from the Salk Institute, told the BBC News website.

copyright Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
Human cells, coloured green, were found in the four-week-old embryo

Commenting on the inefficiency, Prof Belmonte said: "Humans and pigs are separated by a long time in evolution."

Development in the womb is also much faster in pigs - pregnancy lasts less than four months compared with about nine in people.

"It is like a freeway with one car going much faster than another - you're more likely to have an accident," Prof Belmonte said.

He added there was a "long distance" between now and growing animals with human organs - such as a heart, pancreas or liver, that can be transplanted.

However, in the meantime the Salk researchers argue that making chimeras with more human tissue could be useful for:

1. screening drugs before human trials
2. studying the onset of human diseases
3. understanding the earliest stages of human embryo development.
4. explaining differences between organs in different species

Dr Jun Wu, part of the research team, told the BBC: "[Getting the efficiency] in the range of 0.1% to 1% human cells should be enough.

"Even at this early stage [28-days], billions of cells in the embryo would have millions of human cells, then testing would be meaningful and practical."

There was no evidence that human cells were integrating into the early form of brain tissue.

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On Wednesday, a study in the journal Nature showed how organs could be grown in one species for use in another: by making some room.

Rats were genetically modified so they could not produce a pancreas - the organ crucial for controlling blood sugar levels.

Mouse stem cells were injected in the deficient rat embryos, promptly took advantage of the missing pancreas and grew a mouse one there instead.

This was then transplanted back into mice to treat diabetes.

The work to try this in humans and pigs is already under way.

Although in the long term cows look likely to be a better host for human organs as both cow and human pregnancies last about nine months.

The field is also ethically charged, the US National Institutes of Health at one point imposed a moratorium on funding the experiments.

The researchers have done only research that is legal, but they are aware of the controversy.

Prof Belmonte said: "We are restricting development to one month in the pig, the reason is this is enough for us now to understand how cells mix, differentiate and integrate.

"One possibility is to let these animals be born, but that is not something we should allow to happen at this point.

"Not everything that science can do we should do, we are not living in a niche in lab, we live with other people - and society needs to decide what can be done.

Dr Wu said: "When the public hears the world chimera it is always associated with Greek mythology, there is always this associated fear.

"But angels are chimeras, it can be a positive image and hopefully help with a worldwide shortage of organs, not create a monster."

copyright Thinkstock
Chimeras are named after the fire-breathing beast of Greek mythology

Prof Bruce Whitelaw, the interim director of the Roslin Institute where Dolly the sheep was cloned, said: "This is an exciting publication.

"It clearly demonstrates that human stem cells introduced into the early pig embryo can form a human-pig chimera.

"This is the first scientific publication to achieve this result.

"This is a first in the development of chimeric animal production and paves the way for significant advances in our understanding of development in the embryo and hints towards future novel biotech applications."

Prof Robin Lovell-Badge, from the Francis Crick Institute, said: "An ability to make interspecies chimeras would be valuable in terms of providing basic understanding of species differences in embryo development and organ function.

"It would also offer the possibility of growing human tissues or organs in animals for transplants - although this is still a long way off.

"The goals of this study are therefore highly laudable."

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38717930

Notification problem

TruboXL — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:18:35 +0800

I have no idea what cause the problem, just average user here...

The problem is at top right, if you subscribe to a topic or have PM, you get notifications.
Nowadays the popup prompt no longer works.

Sometimes at different pages, the problem comes and goes.
But recently, the problem is getting serious...

Hit F12, open up Web Console, getting errors like this in both Chrome and Firefox:

CODE

ReferenceError: $ is not defined

Any ideas?

<link removed>?

TruboXL — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:57:07 +0800

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https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...post&p=81004292

Weirdly enough posting p a u l t a n . o r g link will become <link removed>... What have gone wrong? Am I banned or something?

Example: http://<link removed>

How to cure tonsurephobia?

TruboXL — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 21:28:13 +0800

Haircut makes me uncomfortable , itchy , hot , sweat , unable to sleep etc.

Serious /k got any tips to combat this phobia of mine?

Happened already since childhood...

[Suggestion] Evil emoticon

TruboXL — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:06:33 +0800

LOL first thread by me and first suggestion thread...

Ok, these do not look evil enough for me...

Maybe include the iconic Lowyat.NET Devil mascot as emoticon...?

Sometimes is hard to convince an "evil" plan when there's no such emoticon here...
*hehehe* :evil:

Also why no "Suggestions" tags? I see "Queries", "Complaints" etc...