Petronas & ChevronTexaco chased out of Chad

How come the Malaysian news have not reported on this yet?

The Chad government has given a 24 hours ultimatum to both Petronas of Malaysia and ChevronTexaco of USA to move its staff out of the country and close their offices. It's a real blow to both companies. Reason for the immediate clearance as mentioned was due to non-compliance to tax obligation matters. Other sources claimed that the removal was to make way for the entrance of China companies into the picture as reported in BBC News/Africa & CNN News.

In Sudan itself, China companies are making headways too. China's top government officials recent visits to a number of African countries are actually paving ways for China companies' path into the largely untapped markets. Apparently, Chad just resumed its international tie with China 3 weeks ago.
Tags: Chad, Petronas, ChevronTexaco, China, Oil

Scomi's Involvement in Nuclear Instrument Resurfaces

There are new reports on the abovesaid title where it mentioned that Japanese authorities had charged a Japanese company of exporting certain equipments to Scomi Precision Engineering Sdn Bhd as reported yesterday in Japan Times.

An earlier investigation by the Malaysian police has cleared Scomi (police report released in 2004).
Tags: Scomi, Scomi Precision Engineering Sdn Bhd, Japan Times, Nuclear Instrument, Investigation

Pokemon Trading Card Game

Pokemon USA, Inc., a worldwide leader in trading card games, had just concluded the Pokemon Trading Card Game (TCG) World Championships that was held on 18-20 Aug 2006 at Hilton Anaheim, California, USA.

World Champions (of different age categories) would have earned educational scholarship awards worth more than US$100,000 (at specific education institutions), invitations to the 2007 World Championships, travel awards and additional Pokemon prizes. The 2007 world series will be held on 10-12 August 2007 in Kona, Hawaii, USA.

Malaysian's own 13-year-old Adwin Lim, emerged sixth out of 128 contestants in his category of 11 to 14 age category.

Tags: Pokemon, Pokemon Trading Card Game, World Championships, Kona, Hawaii

Hong Kong TVB series

La Femme Desperado (a Hong Kong TVB TV series of 22 episodes) – starring Melissa Ng/Sheren Tong/Raymond Lam/Michael Tse/Kenneth Ma/Kate Tsui/Cindy Au. From being a daughter to a girlfriend, all the way to being a mother, it's definitely not easy being a woman. Seeing from the female gender's point of view, this series shows us the hardships a female has to go through. Whether it's holding family honor, break-ups, relationships, divorce or being a single parent, the series will bring you through an experience from a female's point of view.

But from my point of view, at times it's way out / unreasonable / illogical for a lady to act like what the actresses have potrayed.
Tags: Hong Kong, TVB Series, La Femme Desperado, Family

World Cyber Games 2006 Championship

The Malaysian leg of the World Cyber Games 2006 Championship ("WCG") began yesterday at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in which the opening ceremony was graced by the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports who commented such activities will boost computer literacy ...... hehehehe.... my mom doesn't think so......I'm still into computer games such as the CounterStrike (world's #1 online action game). Back home before I was posted to Sudan, almost every Friday at 12midnite (till 4/5am) will be my session with 2 other friends at a cyber cafe famous for Counterstrike gamers.

Winners in the WCG's respective game categories - Warcraft 3, FIFA 2006, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, and CounterStrike 1.6 - will represent the country at the grand final in Monza, Italy, later this year. ......... just look at the reward. Unbeatable!
Tags: World Cyber Games, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, CounterStrike, Warcraft 3, FIFA 2006, Need For Speed, Monza, Italy

BIG Astronomical Announcement!!

The International Astronomical Union has voted on a resolution to de-list PLUTO from the list of known planets in our Solar System in their 26th General Assembly being held in Prague, Czech Republic. The General Assembly was attended by more than 2,500 astronomers.

Educationists all over the world have to revise their teaching materials now to reflect the Solar System having only 8 planets.

Pluto has been re-classified into a new distinct class of dwarf planets.
Tags: Science, Astronomy, Pluto, Planet, Dwarf Planet, Solar System, International Astronomical Union

Find Me Guilty - movie review

Find Me Guilty - starring Vin Diesel & Ron Silver is a movie about a group of 22 mafia-linked bosses being prosecuted for you-name-it kind of offences. The prosecution took 22 months to go through 400+ of evidences and dozens of witnesses.

Only a guy (was already in jail for other offences) opted to defend himself on his own and he made a mockery of the government's attorneys. This movie has no violence part even though it's about mafia-linked story. The action was mainly in the court room and the jail house. At the end of the trial, all 22 persons being prosecuted were found not guilty after impressive questioning by the self-defended guy. This movie was based on a true story.
Tags: Movie, Review, Cinema, Find Me Guilty, Mafia