Is Facebook Leaning Left, Right Or Just Going Nuts? Social media is simply a platform on which netizens could express their opinions. No platform has been more frequently accused of being politically biased than Facebook. And there seems to be some confusion here. The left wing has accused it of blocking traffic to their news […]

大白兔奶糖 brings back many childhood memories. Sweet, milky and chewy, there’s good reason for it to be popular even today. The product is first made by 上海冠生园 in 1959. Milk powder and sugar are the main ingredients. When, the melamine milk powder scandal broke in China in 2008 (at a time when the Chinese authorities […]

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Canon USA alleging the company engaged in deceptive marketing and unjust enrichment practices. David Leacraft filed the lawsuit after discovering that a Pixma MG2522 printer he purchased would not work as a scanner or fax machine when the ink cartridges were low or empty. The complaint alleged […]

Sometimes, you don’t have to be Nostradamus to see the future. Everybody is getting excited about the land border reopening between Singapore and JB. But for the moment, it’s probably only going to be used by Malaysians stuck in Singapore for two years. This VTL is quarantine-free but there are some quotas and conditions which […]

Logical lapses and double standards are most readily found in certain quarters. Sometimes, they can be so glaring and blatant that it leaves you speechless. And yet 五毛 always have something lame to say. Last week, I shared a piece of news about China fiercely asserting its territorial claim. I pointed out that in 1999, […]

Covid changes everything. But it had nothing to do with Covid when I unfriended/unfollowed a couple of opposition politicians on social media. No, I’ve not gone over to the other side. I’ll elaborate on that in a moment. First, let’s take a look at the latest Covid news and it looks like the situation could […]

Sylvia Chan, NOC? Chen Lei? Who cares? Wag the dog can be applied in so many ways. Recently, Chinese pianist Li Yundi got into trouble with the authorities for procuring the services of a prostitute. Laws are often not applied consistently in China. Some monsters can practically go scot-free in spite of their heinous crimes. […]

Lousy schools. First, let me backtrack a little. 14 September 2021. During a marathon debate on two motions on jobs and livelihoods in the House, Manpower Minister Tan See Leng and Mr Leong had several exchanges after Dr Tan had delivered his speech. At one point, after Mr Leong had spoken, a voice could be […]

Huaiwei’s Celebrity Criminal – ans she’s not even as pretty as Serina Wee Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder, was arrested in Canada in December 2018. The US had sought to extradite her on bank and wire fraud charges, claiming that she misled a financial institution to violate American sanctions on Iran. Following Meng’s arrest, […]

The great game plan to have Covid-19 become endemic (living with the virus) essentially means that the pandemic is not expected to end with the virus disappearing but with it continuing to circulate, always affecting a small portion of the population while the rest gain immunity either through vaccination or recovery from infection. One example […]