This is an end March 2023 post. I will return to it to see if its conclusions are still valid on April 1, 2024: Why The World Is Dumping The American Dollar | Vantage with Palki Sharma

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2022-2023 Top 5 reserve currencies:

1 US Dollar 61%

2 Euro 21%

3 Japanese Yen 5.25%

4 Pound Sterling 4.54%

5 Chinese Renminbi 2%

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Minister Hannah Yeoh reads the RTM sports news

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Indonesia’s ‘filthy rich officials’ named and shamed by social media users | The World

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Wanted for throwing nails onto the road at Jalan Batu Gajah: Driver of Nissan Almera AJK 869

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VIDEO – Police find the owner of the vehicle strewn with nails on the road.

IPOH – The police are tracing the owner of a Nissan Almera vehicle with registration number AJK 869 to assist in the investigation regarding the incident of sowing nails on the road which went viral on social media since Friday.

Batu Gajah District Police Chief, Assistant Commissioner Mohamad Roy Suhaimi Sarif said the incident is believed to have happened at the traffic light area of Jalan Ipoh-Lumut, Pusing near Batu Gajah.

“The police received a police report from a road user who informed that his car tire leaked after passing through the said road.

“The Criminal Investigation Division of the Batu Gajah District Police Headquarters (IPD) has opened investigation papers and the case is being investigated under Section 427 of the Penal Code for committing treason,” he said in a statement on Saturday.

According to him, the public with any information can contact the Criminal Investigation Officer, Inspector Siti Ramlah Abdullah at 016-7676287 or the Batu Gajah IPD Operations Room at 05-3654322 or 05-3629050. Since Friday, a 24-second video recorded by the driver of another vehicle has gone viral on social media, showing the driver of the car sowing nails at the intersection from the window of the vehicle.

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Growing number of young people in China flock to religious temples to escape life’s pressures

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serpentza: Hidden – China’s Flagship EVs are Exploding in Huge Numbers

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Fox News. Liars.

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No, she was not trying to walk on water: Somewhere in some hotel in Malaysia?

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John Chan and Kenny Chan, two Old Pinks who demonstrated against Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen

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So who are these two “old pink” Chinese Americans? L: John Chan (陳善莊/陈善庄), chairman of Asian American Community Empowerment (美国亚裔社团联合总会) R: Kenny Chan (陳鍵榕/陈键榕), Chairman of United Overseas Fujianese Association of America (美国福建侨联总会) 1/n

John Chan was born in China Fujian and has been in the US for 30+ years. He’s the owner of Golden Imperial Palace (金皇廷) Chinese restaurant. As a community leader in Brooklyn, he is also chairman of American Chinese Commerce Association and a bunch of other Chinese groups. 2/n

John Chan has close ties with China’s Consul General in New York Huang Ping (黄屏). 3/n

John Chan, Kenny Chan and a bunch of other Chinese Americans were there welcoming Huang Ping and his wife at the JFK International Airport when Huang arrived in New York as the new consul general in 2018. 4/n

Kenny Chan owns the pro-Beijing news outlet The Voice of Chinese (中国侨声). He’s currently chairman of 全美反独促统联盟总会, a United Front group — formed in 2010 with the blessing of Chinese consulate general in New York — that opposes Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang independence. 5/n

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Remembering Leslie Cheung: How his cultural legacy lives on 20 years after death

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