The growing sobriety of Japan’s young people is hitting the amount of revenue flowing into state coffers and has inspired the national tax agency to run a competition for ideas to encourage more drinking. Tax raised from alcohol sales accounted for 5 per cent of total government revenue in 1980, dropping to 3 per cent […]
Centaurus is not an alien but a new subvariant of Covid-19 virus. We note an alarming development in the Guardian today (July 13th, 2022), as reported by Linda Geddes.`The report noted virologists have voiced concerns about the emergence of another fast-spreading Omicron variant, which is rapidly gaining ground in India and has already arrived in […]
The rambutans have been spared from wild monkeys! Please be free to use the image
Some parts of my small garden are fertile where papaya trees are growing nicely. Why are they fertile and support healthy papaya trees? An article by George Monbiot in the Guardian, May 7th, 2022, would help explain this phenomenon. He noted that beneath our feet is an ecosystem so astonishing that it tests the limits […]
Every beverage we drink is mostly water. Beer, soda, juice, coffee, tea – all are at least 90% water, plus a little sugar, alcohol or flavor compounds. Scientists at a Californian company Cana Inc. have figured out how to identify and isolate those molecules that drive flavor and aroma to recreate thousands of drinks – […]
Our new eStore offer a arnge of super foods, which have been long consumed in Southeast Asia. Black ginger is taken by Muay Thai’ boxer as a high energy-giving tea. Our fresh black ginger comes from a farm in Johor, Malaysia.
Recently, the media has seemed to catch on the new invention—NFTs. NFT is a unique, non-interchangeable digital asset basked by blockchain ledger technology. Non fungible characteristic of these tokens or assets refers to the unique and non-replicable nature of this digital-crypto assets, compared to, for example a Bitcoin or a US$1 bill, where each unit […]
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British Malaya (then Malaysia) used to be the major producer of natural rubber, gutta percha and tin. These three commodities made British Malaya an important British colony in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Natural rubber industry is no longer important in Malaysia, as rubber has been replaced by oil palm as […]