The same blood pressure reading is hypertension in America and not in Singapore
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The 916 on a gold chain means something different in Malaysia and Singapore
Malaysian regulations make the fineness stamp compulsory, fix 22 karat as 916 rather than 917, and force the receipt to...
ASEAN requires an SPF number and no UVA rating at all
The regional labelling guideline devotes a single sentence to ultraviolet A, so a shelf in Singapore or Kuala Lumpur car...
No ASEAN country has opened the whole 6 GHz band, and China opened none of it
Six ASEAN countries released the bottom 500 MHz of the 6 GHz band and stopped; the United States released all 1,200. Onl...
The octane numbers on American and Asian pumps are not the same scale
American 87 is roughly 91 RON, because the United States posts the average of two laboratory tests while most of the wor...
Malaysia's minimum wage sets three daily rates, not one
RM1,700 a month is the headline, but the same order sets a daily rate that rises as the working week shortens — RM78.46...
Thailand's VAT rate is legally 10%, and the 7% expires every year
The Revenue Code sets Thai VAT at 10% and always has. The 7% everyone pays lives in a royal decree with an expiry date —...
Philippine 13th month pay is a wage, and a Christmas bonus can count as it
Thirteenth month pay has been compulsory in the Philippines since 1975, but a December bonus worth at least a twelfth of...
Thai severance pay now reaches 400 days, and so does the tax exemption
Thailand's severance table stopped at 300 days' wages until 2019. The Labour Protection Act now has a sixth tier of 400...
In the Philippines, the service charge belongs to the staff
Since 2019, Philippine law requires every peso of a collected service charge to go to non-managerial employees, shared b...
Your air conditioner's seasonal rating is mostly extrapolation
The CSPF on labels across Southeast Asia is computed against a reference season defined in ISO 16358-1, where the machin...
Two ASEAN countries cannot use Apple's Private Relay, and Thailand is still being sold it
Apple publishes an exact 160-country list for iCloud Private Relay. The Philippines and Thailand are absent while every...
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