Electric Feeling On the Street; (just charge and zoom..)

While India's automaker Tata Motors's plan of building the world's cheapest car (called the Nano at $2,200 per model) has succinctly drove itslef into an Indian ditch --the plant has been halted due to protests by...

Hijacked Malaysian Sea-Vessel Headed to Somalia's Pirate Paradise

" BOSASSO (Somalia): Somali pirates are taking a hijacked Malaysian tanker to their coastal base, where gunmen are already holding six vessels for ransom, a local official said yesterday. " The MSIC's...

Sunday's Tale of Quaint Robberies at the Local Fried Chicken Joint

Weekends wouldn't be complete without pop ups of funny and strange news oui? Well, this is not so much as funny but its pretty unsettling and downright odd as well. What does it tell us when a man...

The Slumbering Global Food Crisis Stirs Producing Countries Yet Again

Opinion/ News " Rising food prices mean many farmers around the world are reaping record profits. And South America's agricultural powerhouses, Brazil and Argentina, are responding to the farming windfall in...

Thai Anti-Gov Protesters Vowed 'To Stay' Until Samak Resigns

More yarns on Thaksin and the cookie crumbs he left behind. While dear Thaksin and his family are enjoying the sights and fresh air of Surrey, situations in his homeland are not...

4 Years Old to Scale Eiffel Tower in Merdeka Spirit

It is charming story no doubt, yet what a daunting task for such a young child to be carrying the spirit of nation's independence (to be celebrated this Sunday on...

Deplorable City Eateries Reveal Kuala Lumpur's Dirty Backlanes

We Malaysians love hawker food (well in this world, who doesn't right?), but locally here everyone knows that the small stalls by the roadside in Kampung Baru sells the best beef porridges, the Pudu...

History Teacher Admits to Racial Slurring Gets Transferred Out of State

Malaysia is known for its multiracial community, of being able to live in relative harmony and equality (well, ahem, relatively most of the time). However a history high school teacher who was accused of...

Tribute to Degas's Surreal La Petite Danseus (137 Years After)

"Everyone has talent at 25, the difficulty is to have it at fifty." (Edgar Degas) Edgar Degas (1834-1917) one of the French most endearing impressionist painter who started sculpting in his early forties(very...

Lack of 'Jalur Gemilang' Display - Marks A Lost Expression of Malaysian Patri...

With only 2 weeks from the mark of Malaysian 51st National Day, things have been uncharacteristically somber, dismal and disillusioned -- a kind mixed feeling which have been echoing throughout whole...

Sunday's Just One Coffee, Si'l Vous Plait

Sunday's over and as always, I like to end it in a light note with an almost pointless focus and this week I shall touch on some scalding cafe-noir. Apart from chocolates and red-hot spicy food,...

Rising Ocean Acidity Threatens Marine Life Fertilisation

The Greek sea God, Poseidon must have been having a bad year, as well as the past 365,000 years I believe. Because not only are the jellyfishes taking over the ocean (caused by the rising sea...

Thai-Cambodia : Slim Truce Over the Contest of Preah Vihear Temple

" PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - August 14th, 2008 - Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to withdraw most of the 1,000 troops facing off for a month near the disputed Preah Vihear temple on their border, a Cambodian...

Lighter Side of Life: The One-Pupil School

A few months back when a friend of mine who's a school teacher told me that there was a Mandarin-based primary school in upstate Malaysia with only one student -- I brushed it...