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Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, tops Forbes list of “World’s Most Powerful Billionaires”. Meanwhile media and banking titan Silvio Berlusconi, also prime minister of Italy, ranks second on the list. Billionaire industrial heir, Saad Hariri, who was appointed prime minister of Lebanon last JUN ranks fifth. Rounding out the top five are Mexican telecom titan Carlos Slim and Russian oil magnate Vagit Alekperov. Hong Kong and East Asia wealthiest man, Li Ka-Shing ranks eight in the list.

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When you in the cyber-cafe, you need to type the Chinese characters to reply your friends comments in facebook or create a post in your blog. What you will do if the machine was not installed with Chinese input tools?

Normally i will open the google and search for “Chinese online input”. Then click on first search result link; Chinese Input Method Editor – (IME) – Free Online Tools. This tool allows you to write Chinese on your computer without installing any software. This Online Chinese input editor is based on pinyin. What you need to do is type the Chinese character or sentences, then copy it to your facebook or blog. That’s it!

How to use the tool

• Write pinyin. The pinyin will appear in the right-upper box. In the right-lower box, the tool will propose a list of character corresponding to the pinyin.
• If the first character proposed is the one you intend to write, just press the “space” bar. The character will be displayed in the left editor box
• If the character you want is the 2nd, 3rd, … just press the corresponding key (1), (2) of your keyboard. The character will be displayed in the left editor box
• If the list of character exceed 10, then use the key “Page Down” “Page Up” of your computer.

It’s make your life easy although you not installing any Chinese Input tools on your machine. Hope you enjoy it.

Go to Chinese Input Method Editor

Do you know how many broadband service provider in the Malaysia market? Here is the list for your reference and you can choose the best suitable provider for yourself.

1. eBulding
2. Airzed
3. Arcnet NTT MSC Sdn Bhd
4. Atlas One Broadband Internet Provider
5. Biz Surf – Broadband Internet services
6. Celcom
7. Digi
8. Giga Broadband VDSL
9. Gold Information Systems Wireless broadband provider
10. iDiGi Internet Services
11. iZZi – Mobile wireless broadband, iBurst
12. Jaring
13. Maxis Broadband
14. Metro FON
15. NasionCom
16. Penang FON
17. PutraNet
18. Time Net
19. Time Broadband
20. TMnet
21. TMnet Streamyx
22. Webbit – Time Wireless Broadband
23. ZapZone Wireless Hotspot
24. Netlynx by TIME dotCom Berhad
25. Packet One
26. InfoLient
27. Amax
28. TIME Netlynx
29. UMobile
30. Lightspeed Broadband
31. MyKris
32. ASIASPACE SDN. BHD.

NOTE: Above providers list was just for reference and it might have other service providers in the market.

[Source The Danesh Project and Planet Low Yat]

US banking giant Citigroup Inc becomes the seventh foreign company to grant a stockbroking licence from The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC). However, it will be focusing its business model on foreign and domestic institutional business. Any variations to the business model are subject to the SC’s approval.

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When you plan to buy a property for your own stay or investment. You may want to know repayment amount for your home loan. AmBank Home Financing Calculator will give you estimation prepayment amount that you need to pay in future for your home loan. The best still is prepare all needed documents and get consult from local bank financial consultant.

Here is the link:AmBank Home Financing Calculator

Based on Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) statement, the international reserves of BNM as at 31st DEC 2009 amounted to RM331.3 billion (equivalent to USD96.7 billion). Compared to 15th DEC 2009, the international reserves had declined RM3.8 billion but in term of USD it had increased USD0.5 billion. This indicates the strengthening of RM against USD.

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Public Bank Bhd and Bursa Malaysia Bhd won the Overall Excellence Award of the Malaysian Corporate Governance Index 2009 (MCG Index) for their achievements in practising the highest level of corporate governance standard. The new MCG Index serve as a premier index for investors to gauge corporate governance levels of public-listed companies in Malaysia.

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Nestle (Malaysia) Bhd will replace Parkson Holdings Bhd to become the constituent in FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) following the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange’s semi-annual review. The reviews ensure that the indices accurately reflect the markets they represent. FTSE group and Bursa Malaysia Bhd said that would take effect from tomorrow, 21st DEC 2009, and the next review would take place in JUN 2010.

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The BrandLaureate Awards 2009-2010, the Grammy Awards for branding, will coming for the fourth edition next year. This event is launched by The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation (APBF), a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion and improvement of branding standards in Malaysia and the Asia-Pacific.

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According to a valuation study conducted by Interbrand, Public Bank emerge as Malaysia’s most valuable brand for year 2009, with a value of RM6.593 billion. Public Bank overtook last year champion Maybank, which fell to second spot this year with value of RM5.374 billion, to grab top spot in the third anuual ranking of Malaysia’s Most Valuable Brands (MMVB), a league table that values the Top-30 consumer-facing Malaysian brands. In third place is CIMB, valued at RM5.245 billion.

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