Category: Malaysian economy and BNM
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Stay Home. Positive sign today. Vaccinate Faster Please.
Latest Covid-19 Update. 29th May 2021, we hit 9,020 new Covid-19 cases per day. 9 days later after this peak, we are currently at 5,271 cases. In fact today is the first day where the number of recovered has exceeded the number of new cases. Briefly, active cases actually dropped 2,359 today. The number of…
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Which is the oldest country / region in East Asia as at 2020?
Which is the oldest country / region in East Asia as at 2020 To understand the significance of population, read this article: Population collapse will happen in future. Now, answer this question. Which country / region is the oldest in East Asia? Japan? Yeah, you have guessed right. The median age for Japan is 48.…
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Housing investment grew 43 percent. Biggest driver of economic growth
It’s not Malaysia yeah. However, whenever we look at the world, we could see one very important sign / fact. When the sentiment is positive, property is one of those things people buy. The reason is simple. A home (shelter) is a need. Meanwhile when we look at history, property prices always go up when…
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Pemerkasa Plus. Pay 50% or moratorium for 3 months? Which to choose?
We have the Pemerkasa+ being announced recently. If you like to know the full details, download the file at the end of this article. As this is kopiandproperty.my, we focus on the real estate part yeah. Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said that loan repayment assistance and a moratorium worth up to RM30 billion…
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When the world recovers, our exports move up. 63% up in April 2021.
I am against full lockdown. The issue was never about lockdown or no lockdown. Look at the basics of the issue. It is the people’s compliance. People who despite being advised against STILL WENT to another state. People who STILL WENT to someone else’s home and have a gathering. Sigh… If you want, you can…
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Purchasing power dropped 16.7% over a decade.
Purchasing power dropped. Many people say “money is getting smaller.” What they meant is that for the same amount of money, we could buy fewer things. Or for the same amount of money, the size of the things we buy has also gotten smaller. Well, in one word, this is inflation. My mother told me…
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Updated. AZ registration opens 140 minutes later
If you like to know great things about AstraZeneca, MOST of UK people got jabbed with AZ. From the latest news, they are doing well and the economy has been reopened and this included even pubs and football matches have spectators back in stadiums. AZ is also approved by World Health Organisation (WHO). From the…
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Vaccination news: Let’s use up 1.059 million doses before end June, okay?
Good news. Not great news but definitely good news. Malaysia have a total arrival of 1.059 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week. This is 559k of AstraZeneca (which I have taken and if you like to know the experience and what to do etc, read here) Added to this number would be another 500k…
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My AstraZeneca (AZ) vaccination experience and what to expect during the process
22nd May 2021 (Saturday) at 1030am, I was ‘cucukbyAZ’ or in English, I got jabbed with AZ vaccine. It was my first dose. Why did I chose AZ despite all those ‘viral news?’ I repeat. The UK has the MOST number of people jabbed with AZ and they have reopened even their pubs last weekend.…
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3 Ways to Vaccinate Faster. One is up to us.
3 ways to vaccinate faster. The last one is really up to us. This is why the focus must be three pronged. First one is to secure ENOUGH vaccines. This is not the time to wait… and do nothing. This is also NOT the time to play politics. If the vaccine is approved and it’s…