Lau Bing

Who gets to use and spend money held in EPF?

Who gets to use and spend money held in EPF?

Money held in the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) keeps snowballing every month from members’ contributions plus profits and gains and interests earned from EPF’s direct investments using members’ monies. This also includes money accrued from savings in bank deposits, etc, etc.

Nur Jazlan’s ‘sour grapes’?

Nur Jazlan’s ‘sour grapes’?

Overall, the just-over Bersih 5 protest walk event held on Nov 19, 2016 in the federal capital is a great success and most importantly, they had sent the ‘message’ across the nation as well as internationally.

What Penang should do to alleviate floods in the state

What Penang should do to alleviate floods in the state

Further to my recent contributions on what Penang could do or use to keep floods at bay, herein is something else the Penang government could do to take care of the problems.

Win GE14 first, talk later

Win GE14 first, talk later

If you look at the 14th general election (GE14) from a ‘feng shui’ angle, you will understand that it is the most crucial GE for the country, thus far.

Deputy education minister should do needful to catch up on lost time

Deputy education minister should do needful to catch up on lost time

I dispute what Deputy Education Minister P Kamalanathan reportedly said in a local English daily on Oct 6, 2016 - that students should consider taking up STPM after completing their SPM studies, as it could help them attain a place in public universities after finishing STPM.

You only put all entertainment outlets in a red light district

You only put all entertainment outlets in a red light district

The idea to locate all new and old entertainment outlets to a centralised district or place in the city or town in KL is innovative. But in reality it has its constraints and obstacles, and objections by people from the business circles and residents in the neighbourhood are aplenty.

Appealing for clemency for Vivian Lee

Appealing for clemency for Vivian Lee

In the old days the sheriffs in the American West would use the jail to lock up thieves, bank robbers and criminals, but it was a no-no for social and domestic offenders who were let off with a warning or perhaps with a fine.

Losing S’wak polls a serious and costly affair for opposition

Losing S’wak polls a serious and costly affair for opposition

When the opposition parties won big in the last Sarawak Election in 2011 prior to the one on May 7, 2016, they knew it was solely because the voters there gave them the mandate hoping that it will give them the booster they need to grow stronger and bigger as a united party to come back even stronger and bigger to ‘fight’ BN in the next election.
House, property prices subject to location, demand and popularity

House, property prices subject to location, demand and popularity

Yes, the resale values of some properties (residential houses) in certain places do not seem to appreciate over time, and it (the resale values of these properties) had in fact depreciated below developers’ price, yet there are no takers.
Penny wise and pound foolish

Penny wise and pound foolish

Yes, generally speaking the residents in PJ and Subang Jaya agree that the city and town councils, MBPJ and MPSJ, should stop holding any more campaigns asking them, residents, to catch a rat dead or alive for RM3 a piece, in view of the health risks involved from exposures to rat urine and for handling of diseased rats, and especially when all previous attempts had failed to eradicate the rodents at all in both places.
Any time is the ‘right’ time

Any time is the ‘right’ time

After digesting reports and comments from different elite personalities and professionals of their pessimism about Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s declaration - obviously they forgot as (or being) critics see that everything has a starting point, a beginning and that someone has to initiate or take the lead.
Need to bring in more foreign investors to provide more jobs

Need to bring in more foreign investors to provide more jobs

Very soon, you and I, we will see many more jobless graduates walking on the streets in Malaysia. As it is, it is already difficult to find employment in the private sectors or placements for learning in the government public services, today.
MPSJ should stop plan to use owls to catch rats

MPSJ should stop plan to use owls to catch rats

Like all sentient beings, barn owls also have a place that they call ‘home’. They will then start a family and stay put in the area, which eventually becomes an owl colony.
‘Do not bully the minority handphone traders’

‘Do not bully the minority handphone traders’

Why only find fault with small retailers at shopping malls and force the shopkeepers to make a cash refund to the customers for something they purchased from the shops at ‘exorbitant’ prices, that the buyers reckon is tantamount to cheating?
Please, don’t treat us like children any more!

Please, don’t treat us like children any more!

You only need take a look around in any shopping mall these days to see that even a child, two or three years old and being pushed in a pram, plays with a mini portable computer.
No such word as ‘pendatang’ in Oxford Dictionary

No such word as ‘pendatang’ in Oxford Dictionary

This is written in view of Perkasa calling some quarters ‘pendatang’. There is no such word in the Oxford Dictionary.
It’s the wrong time to increase tolls

It’s the wrong time to increase tolls

I believe that candidates standing for a general election of a country are chosen by the people and put into office to form the government on an understanding that the government is there for the people who voted for them.
The Bersih 4 rally has proven a point

The Bersih 4 rally has proven a point

If not for the threats from the government, the crowd at the Bersih 4 rally should have doubled. Nevertheless, at 3pm with about 25,000 supporters there, as reported by Channel News Asia TV news update on 29/8 and about an hour later there were 35,000, excluding those who had gathered in Brickfields and Petaling Street.
M’sians have been short-changed on petrol price

M’sians have been short-changed on petrol price

Now that US oil finishes below US$40 a barrel, for the first time since 2009, as reported over TV Channel NewsAsia on Tuesday, Aug 25, 2015 and (it) is slightly over US$44 for Brent, this good news should actually bring cheer to Malaysians but instead they are unhappy because they still pay RM2.05 for a litre of RON95.
The layman’s concern is how to stretch the ringgit

The layman’s concern is how to stretch the ringgit

To the layman and low-income people, their main concern in life is how much they could stretch the ringgit or rather what they can put on the dining table.
Our petrol prices not relative to crude prices

Our petrol prices not relative to crude prices

Yes! Oil prices fall after mixed US petroleum data.
The vanishing durian stalls at SS2

The vanishing durian stalls at SS2

Many lovers of the king of fruits who went to SS2 last night to look for ‘Donalds’ to have durians were much saddened and disappointed when they found the durian stall had vanished into thin air, that is, no longer there.