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A few reasons. Number one, they are not strong enough to really win a war with US. They might start something, but there will be a stalemate. Second, they don't want to disrupt the current economic world order because they need it to boost their revenue and strengthen their military. They are...

How China Won World War III by Evelyn Lee Ji Hiang, Singapore Times, March 2, 2075 Perhaps it was only within an autocratic system that a victor could win WW III. After all what democratic nation in the world could authorize the expenditure of 4 trillion US dollars over 20 years to build a...

Hello, Finished my first novel. Please take a look and comment. Synopsis: At the start of the next World War the navies of China and Japan invaded the Malay peninsula at Mersing on the western shore of the South China Sea. A Malaysian special forces officer stationed on an island 50 km from...

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Generally pretty hard to retire here unless you have at least $3 million in CPF and cash. I came here as a skilled worker. An Engineer at 38, did 4 years of postgrad studies in a New York University. Took my own sweet time because I really was looking to work in the US then and if you are a...

Activities are camping, fishing, hunting, hiking, mountain biking. Generally outdoors type.

We are in the area called the Interior British Columbia. So very sparsely populated. BC is 4 million people in an area 3 times the size of Malaysia (East and West combined). The bulk of these (approx 3 millions is located in Vancouver and the coast. The rest of the 1 millions is scattered in the...

Actually was Malaysian. From Klang, Selangor. In British Columbia. 4 hours drive into the interior from Vancouver. So lots of mountains. Another pic.

I am Canadian now. Here's my new surrounding somewhere near the Canadian Rockies. Just bought an old 13 foot boat with 35 horsepower engine. And also has a Honda Oddsey with V6 engine capable of towing it (beige van on the right).

My own two cents. Before 2001 I lived in JB's Taman Sutera and travelled by car to NUS where I worked. Took me an hour one way through the second link. Great living. Rented a 1000 sq foot house with 3 rooms and a garden of equivalent size for RM 800 per month. Didnt have any incident with...

I had to look up definition of hicktown. "Hick Town 34 up, 11 down buy hick town mugs, tshirts and magnetsA southern, mostly redneck town that has few offerings other than simply being a community that knows and cares for each other above all else. Usually characterized as: A town...

Got to give it to Wendy, she's right here. Sometimes these Canadians do cock up!! I work with them! Hey, it comes with the life style: laissez faire (spelled right?), easy-going, joking all the time, and you expect them to get everything right? Gimme a break.

Bingo !!!!!!

And not only that it serves 16,000 students online through the British Columbia Center for Open Learning.

Hock, one clue. Higher Education. There's 1200 international student from China, India, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Africa, Europe. The University is the top water consumer in town with 10,000 students and 2000 staff.