Malaysian Digest - Malaysia News and Current Affairs

There are companies that make millions, there are companies that make billions but then there are companies that make lots of billions dollars.  Here is the list of 10 giant billion dollar maker. The lowest one of them is making 23 million dollars an hours which accumulated roughly 550 million a day or 380,000 dollars a minute. How’s that compare to what you getting annually?

State Grid Corporation Of China

Revenue: $226.2 Billion

Industry: Oil and Gas

Employees: 1,564,000

Stock Listing: Government-owned

Headquarters: Xicheng District, Beijing, China

 
State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC)  is the largest electric utilities company that transmits and distribution power in China and in the world, headquartered in Xicheng District, Beijing. For distribution, it has its subsidiaries for Northern China, Northeastern China, Eastern China, Middle China and Northwestern China. After the electricity “Plant-Grid Separation” reform in early 2000, the assets of State Electric Power Corporation , which included both power plants and electric grid all over mainland China, were divided into the five “power generation groups” that retained the power plants, and State Grid Corporation headquartered in Beijing with its five regional subsidiaries and China Southern Power Grid Corporation headquartered in Guangzhou, that operate power transmission, distribution and other assets of the old State Electric Power Corporation. It was ranked eighth in the 2010 Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest companies by revenue and has moved one place up in the 2011 Fortune Global 500 list.

A Top 10 list of highest paid soccer players in the world for the year 2012.

Frank Lampard

Salary 2012: $17 million

His main wage is the salary on Chelsea’s field, of around $11 million, putting him on Britain’s highest paid sportsmen but he also has a couple of endorsements that make his total earnings quite a lot bigger.

Rice is the third biggest crop in Pakistan, after wheat and cotton. According to the Rice Exporters Association Pakistan (REAP), Pakistan cultivates various types of rice, including Super Basmati, Basmati PK-385, Irri-6, Irri-9 and KS-282. However, Pakistan is better known for its aromatic types of Basmati, namely, Super Basmati and Basmati PK-385.

Some people believe that it is better to be born blind than to lose one’s sight later in life. Others say that to understand what a blind person faces every day, one needs to experience darkness. However, such a simulation may not provide an accurate experience of blindness.

PKR deputy president Azmin Ali’s suit against Utusan Malaysia has continued the trend of multimillion ringgit legal cases against the media in the past few years. Last week, Azmin’s lawyer submitted a letter of demand to Utusan Melayu (M) Bhd and its editor seeking RM100 million in damages from Utusan Malaysia over its front-page article published on May 2. The article had linked Azmin to a scandal involving photographs of a man resembling the PKR leader allegedly engaging in a sexual act in a toilet. 

KUALA LUMPUR, 8 MAY, 2012: Foreign workers refuted Tenaganita executive director Irene Fernandez’s statement that Malaysia is “completely not” safe for migrant workers.

The following is the transcript of an interview by Umno-Online with Prime Minister and Umno President Datuk Seri Najib Razak in conjunction with Umno's 66th anniversary:

Should good looks be a major criteria to garner votes in the 13th general election (GE)?

Bloggers have been buzzing about the cancellation of the “share swap” deal between Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and AirAsia, and giving plenty of feedback on which direction the remaining comprehensive collaborative framework (CCF) should go.

The Malaysian-Thai Chamber of Commerce's observation shows that inflation has surpassed the gains from the recent minimum wage increment in Thailand.

There was an immediate huge sigh of relief among many members of Barisan Nasional (BN) in Penang after Gerakan Secretary-General Teng Chang Yeow was appointed their new chief.