Oil Prices in Malaysia

Good day Y'all,

Post election Malaysia have proven to be an unsettling one, despite the National Front getting only 46% of the votes, they have won GE13. I don't want to talk further on the controversies of the election results, but to discuss on what's happening after the election. So now, post GE13, promises have been made and they must be kept.

However, one promise that was guaranteed before the election was not fulfilled recently. After ensuring the people that oil prices, especially RON95 would not increase this year, it increased yesterday (3/8/2013) by 20 cents a liter. Of course 20 cents isn't much, but if we calculate the ratio, it is actually an increase of 10.52% and this would definitely affect transportation of all goods thus escalating costs. Maybe to the fat cats its nothing to be shout at, but an increase of almost 11% of living cost would definitely affect the people especially among the poor. I just hope this chosen step to improve our economy is justified.

One question that really boggles me, RON97 is the premium fuel in Malaysia, it is not subsidized and currently it is priced at RM2.70, RON95 is supposedly subsidized at 63 cents at current price it is at RM2.10. RM2.10 + RM0.63 = RM2.73. Is it true that RON95, which is of lower quality than RON97 more expensive than the latter? Or am I missing something here?

**Update: after much chatter in the social media, on 5/9/2013 the government increased the price of RON97 by 15 cents to RM2.85

Anyway, take a look at our Viz below showing the price fluctuations of subsidized oil in Malaysia since 2000.

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Malaysia Political map Revisited

Hi,

A while back I posted something about the Malaysian Political scene since 1986, and if you are aware about the Malaysian politics, finally the 13th General Election is upon is after such an agonizing wait. This GE could turn out to be a make or break deal for Malaysia especially the opposition party Pakatan Rakyat (PR) or People's Coalition, which also added some unimaginable pressure for Barisan National (BN) or the National Front, to prove their tried and tested governance of 56 years. By the time you are reading this, Malaysia's future could have unfolded as the world watch. Hopefully, you've been watching in delight as democracy is being practiced with intelligence and maturity rather than in anarchy. So crossing fingers, we only hope for the best regardless which party succeeds, we only wish that it is the people who ultimately won.

Since this is a revisit to our dear old Viz, I've upgraded it with some insights on how the Malaysia's poorest living under $5 have been doing since 1986 and also a little look at a survey on what Malaysians generally want change in their government. Also you can see that I've incorporated some cool Tableau V8 features inside.

Its interesting to see that at 2004 our nation's middle and poor class have totaled to more that 10 million, which is about a third of the people of the country, a direct impact of the 1998 financial crisis no doubt. But amazingly, the people trusted the then prime minister Tun Abdullah enough that it translated into a huge win for BN and the number of middle to poor class were lowered in 2008. So hopefully we'd see the same trend in 2013.

So pray for the best, and wish us luck on 5th May 2013. See ya.

-Zan

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World Internet Penetration From 2000 to 2012

Hi guys,

Its been a while since our last posting, we were quite busy for the new year so it was kinda slow for us to find some good Viz to share with you. While lurking around the interweb I've found this very good gem of information about how the internet population have grown since 2000. Represented in the Viz below, it is an eye opener especially when considering how much the internet has grown in Africa compared to Asia. While Asia having the most population, and supposedly bloomed the Internet for the past decade, its the Africans and the Middle Easterners who have taken into Internet by storm with over 2000% growth now thats a lot. Kinda explained why my mailbox is flooded with those Nigerian scams by the minute :p (no offence to my Nigerian friends). In Asia, take a look at Afghanistan for example, a 12000% growth which undoubtedly caused by the American occupation vs North Korea which unfortunately is still trying hard to get out of the stone age. IMHO, that 111% growth would just have come up from the families of the party leaders.

For Facebook fans, surprise-surprise, Mongolia's penetration is 129% which means that all of the population has a facebook account plus some dead ones, or they have this crazy hobby of making 2-3 facebook accounts for fun. Have a look at the Viz below and do give comments :)

-Zan

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