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		<title>TM eyes McKinsey to meet HSBB target</title>
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4 — Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) is mulling to give a RM20 million project to McKinsey &#38; Co to ensure its RM11 billion high-speed broadband (HSBB) is on time to meet the 50 per cent broadband penetration target this year.
The telecoms utility&#8217;s board is due to meet tomorrow to decide on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2010/01/tm-eyes-mckinsey-to-meet-hsbb-target/</link>
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		<title>P1 WIMAX&#8217;s vulgar ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently a group of people are not happy with P1&#8217;s new &#8220;potong&#8221; advert and have lodge a complaint with the Communications and Multimedia Content Forum of Malaysia (CMCF). Below is the news article from New Straits Times.
PUTRAJAYA: The popular potong advertisement by P1 Wimax may land the advertiser in trouble.
Communications and Multimedia Content Forum of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2009/12/p1-wimaxs-vulgar-ad/</link>
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		<title>Accenture ends sponsorship of Tiger Woods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This came to me as no surprise. It&#8217;s the right thing to do. It was all over the news. Accenture staff even received an email notification to inform them of this. Speculation on online media has stated that his average loss in sponsorships could be as much as US$50million per scandal! Looking at the number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2009/12/accenture-ends-sponsorship-of-tiger-woods/</link>
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		<title>TM&#8217;s RM11.3b broadband project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know this piece of news was from last year, but I am exicited to see their progress and get highspeed broadband in Malaysia. I am guessing that TM needs to roll this out as soon as possible with the advent of wimax that is being aggressively promoted and provided by P1.
KUALA LUMPUR: Telekom Malaysia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2009/12/tm-gets-letter-of-award-for-rm11-3b-broadband-project/</link>
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		<title>Accenture to Cut About 300 Senior Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Accenture Ltd. plans to shed 7% of its senior-executive ranks, or about 336 positions, and plans to cut excess real estate capacity, seeing total restructuring charges of $247 million in its fiscal fourth quarter.
The technology outsourcing and management company said about $128 million of the charge was for severance and related costs of work force [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2009/08/accenture-to-cut-about-300-senior-managers/</link>
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		<title>Siemens Run 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After my last 10KM event, I was very enthusiastic in participating in another run, so I quickly registered for another 10KM event, which is the Siemens Run 2009. The Siemens Run main event is the 10KM run (there&#8217;s no Full Marathon or Half Marathon). Despite it being the main event, the number of participants is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2009/07/siemens-run-2009/</link>
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		<title>KL Marathon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings. I would like to share my experience in the recent KL Marathon where I ran the 10KM event. The KL Marathon is considered one of the major annual running events in KL and this year it is organised by Standard Chartered. It was my first official long distance run since highschool, which is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2009/07/kl-marathon/</link>
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		<title>Resilience of Islamic Finance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Background of Sub-prime
The sub-prime meltdown which began in August 2007 has brought down several of the long established and large financial establishments in the US and Europe. Major banks and other financial institutions around the world have reported losses of approximately US$540 billion as of September 2008, and this has continued to increase. Despite concerted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2008/12/resilience-of-islamic-finance/</link>
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		<title>Thailand Plans First Islamic Bonds to Tap Arab Wealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Thailand plans to raise $600 million from its first sale of Islamic bonds as it seeks to attract funds from the Middle East to pay for public works.
&#8220;We want to tap petrodollars as Middle East countries have lots of money,&#8221; Dheerasak Suwannayos, president of the state- owned Islamic Bank of Thailand, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2008/09/thailand-plans-first-islamic-bonds-to-tap-arab-wealth/</link>
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		<title>Sukuk issuance hit by global credit conditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR: The sukuk (Islamic bond) market has felt the impact of the deteriorating global credit conditions, according to a recent report by the Islamic Finance Information Service (IFIS).
In a statement, IFIS said the report, titled Sukuk in HI 2008: Key Trends and Highlights, indicated that issuance had fallen by 54% in the first half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://imran.kifli.net/2008/09/sukuk-issuance-hit-by-global-credit-conditions/</link>
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