Malaysian Football is Ranked #123

Sinar Daily had erred in their calculations and so, they got Malaysia's FIFA ranking all wrong. [Refer my September 12 post "Malaysia's FIFA Ranking is Expected to Improve"].

Malaysia's national football team, nicknamed Harimau Malaya, is ranked 123rd globally with 1,148.23 points, moving up just two spots from their 125th position in July. As per the FIFA update on September 18.

And if they continue their winning streak, they can certainly expect to break into the world's top 120 teams. 

Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order laying out a proposed deal for a US version of TikTok that would see Chinese ownership reduced to 20 percent and put control in the hands of the president’s allies. 

At a signing ceremony at the White House, Trump said the US version of the app would be run by “highly sophisticated” investors including Larry Ellison, the founder of cloud giant Oracle, tech investor Michael Dell and media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. Investment firm Silver Lake Management and Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz are also thought to be part of the deal. 

“The proposed divestiture would allow the millions of Americans who enjoy TikTok every day to continue using it while also protecting national security”, Trump stated in the order, which affects TikTok’s approximately 170 million American users. 

The president confirmed that the US version of TikTok would feature a homegrown model of the app’s prized algorithm, often described as TikTok’s “secret sauce” that helped it grow into one of the world’s most popular platforms in just a few years. 

The new set-up for TikTok is in response to a law passed under Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, that has forced its Chinese owner ByteDance to sell its US operations or face a ban in its biggest market. US policymakers, including Trump in his first presidency, have warned that China could use TikTok to mine data from Americans or exert influence through its state-of-the-art algorithm. 

Trump has repeatedly delayed enforcement through successive executive orders, most recently extending the deadline until December 16, 2025. Thursday’s order extended that deadline still further, granting a 120-day enforcement delay to complete the transaction by January 23. 

Vice President JD Vance, the one-time venture capitalist who led the team to find a solution for TikTok, said the US entity would be valued at about $14 billion (which, I think, is undervalued), though he added that it would ultimately be up to the investors to figure out its price. 

When asked if the Chinese authorities had signed off on the deal, Trump claimed that President Xi Jinping gave his green light in a phone call on September 19, 2025. 

TikTok did not respond to a query seeking comment and confirmation, and Beijing has remained largely silent on any deal. 

After the Trump-Xi call, state broadcaster CCTV said Xi emphasised to his US counterpart that China supports market-based negotiations that align with Chinese laws.

I just think the US is getting ahead of itself. 😜😜😜