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             According to International Air Transport Association (IATA), air travel continues to expand in a healthy way. Compare to the same period in 2012, the overall demand for air travel increase 5.6%, while capacity rose by 5.2%. In the region of Asia Pacific, international traffic rose by 3.7% in May with China and Japan recorded 13.4% and 5.9% of growth in their respective domestic market. The statistics clearly show that air travel performed relatively well across the world despite the global economy facing some uncertainty.              Air Asia which is the largest low-cost airline group in Asia is slowly losing its ground to nearby rivals-Lion Air. According to Centre for Aviation (CAPA), Lion Air currently holds 35% of Southeast Asia’s capacity thanks to its extensive Indonesia domestic market. While, Air Asia has a 32% market share in the region with a mere 2% of the Indonesia domestic market. T...

          Recently, thestar did a survey on our MPs (Member of Parliament) with a game of 20 questions. These questions are about local and international knowledge, policies, news as well as other topics like entertainment and IT. It is understandable that our MPs can’t get all the questions correct. But one particular question that asks our MPs how much is the current minimum wage being implemented in Malaysia drew my attention. There are at least 29 MPs answered it wrongly! Out of those MPs who took part, only 61% answered the question correctly!           From this question, you can clearly see that some of our MPs are not doing their job as a policy maker. Basically, a MP’s task is to bring forward the people’s voice to the parliament and solve the people’s problems related to government agencies. They are the group of people that can propose new laws to the government and also questions the minister on issues related to the ...

*Another article on this year's third grand slam-Wimbledon. I have posted two articles in a row on tennis because the short interval between French and Wimbledon. For sure, there will be a new topic in my next article. There will be no more new tennis articles till the next slam. In the meantime, I hope you guys enjoy my thoughts and analysis on the recent concluded Wimbledon!            For the British, it’s a long-awaited Wimbledon. For Andy Murray, it’s a remarkable Wimbledon. For Federer and Nadal, it’s a horrible Wimbledon. For Sabine Lisicki, it’s an emotional Wimbledon. For Sharapova and Azarenka, it’s a disappointing Wimbledon. For Jerzy Janowicz, it’s a historical Wimbledon. Not to forget, for the tennis neutrals out there, it’s a roller-coaster Wimbledon.           You can put a number of adjectives to describe how this year’s Wimbledon went depends on which side you are looking from, but you can’t deny it was a pr...