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Category: Overseas

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Overseas

14th largest economy in the world. Population dropping 50,000 per year?

If we are asked for a country which is full of elderly people, chances are we may say it’s Japan. Actually, the reason for such a big population of the elderly is because the fertility rate of Japan is very low. In fact, way lower than the minimum 2.1 per woman in order to ensure the population is not dropping in number with every passing year.

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Airport related

Fly from Subang to Jakarta for RM299 (one way ticket…) via TransNusa

Answer is, no. Perhaps the only consolation is that it’s Subang which meant that for some people, it’s much closer than to touch down in KLIA and then needing another hour to travel to the city centre. Or just use the train and arrive in slightly over 30 minutes. Well, if you stop in Subang (Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport) and you need a GRAB to the KL city centre, it should take around half an hour. So, one is saving around 30 minutes by using the Jakarta to Subang flight versus Jakarta to KLIA route.

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Overseas

Personal remittances back to home country could be up US$125 billion per year!

My brother-in-law shared me the story of the foreign workers in his factory over 10 years ago. He said that the foreign workers are very good at saving money. During lunch time, they will take a huge bowl of rice and then put a lot of gravy and that’s all they will eat and that’s how they spend just RM30 per month for lunches. They also eat a lot of vegetables because it’s cheap and thus, they were able to send nearly all their earnings back to their home country.

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Eco World Reported Net Profit For Q3
ABCs of Property Investment

Property price must not keep rising as if the sky’s the limit. 10% per year is considered high by the way.

Property price must not keep rising as if the sky’s the limit. Salary does not increase by double digits, except if one were to resign and got a better offer or if the one got a promotion in title and it comes with a bigger responsibility and bigger pay package. Else, it’s the usual few percent per year just so that everyone is not worse off versus the year before due to inflation.

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