One sky, three verdicts: why Singapore says unhealthy and Malaysia says moderate
The same 70 micrograms of fine particulate reads 116 on Singapore's PSI, 96 on Malaysia's API and 161 on the US AQI. Alm...
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Singapore's 3 days and Malaysia's 72 hours are not the same deadline
Both look like the same breach-notification window, but the clocks start at different events. Singapore's three days beg...
How Far Away the Cloud Is From Singapore
A dropdown asks which region, and most people pick the familiar name. Measured from a server in Singapore, the closest r...
What Our Payslip Tool Will Not Tell You
Our payslip decoder describes 39 lines across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and declines to give you a figure in 6 o...
Annual Rainfall Will Not Size Your Tank
Singapore and Manila are within five per cent of each other on annual rainfall, and their driest months are 112 mm and 8...
What Actually Happens to Your Bonus
The tax on an extra $1,200 is identical whether it arrives as salary or as a bonus — we computed it at five salary level...
Is Rent Really Dead Money? What a Lease Costs You
"Rent is dead money" ends most rent-versus-buy conversations before the arithmetic starts, because it sounds like an acc...
When Does an HDB Lease Start Affecting Your Loan?
Lease decay gets filed with rising sea levels — real, distant, somebody's problem eventually. But the rule that actually...
Cap Rate, BRRRR and Which Property Metrics Travel
Cap rate, cash-on-cash and net operating income are arithmetic — they work on any building in any currency. BRRRR is not...
Tracing Chinese Ancestry in Southeast Asia: Start With How Your Name Is Spelled
Tan, Chan and Chin are the same character. Which one is on your IC records which dialect group your family belonged to,...
Same Body, Two Verdicts: What the Drink-Drive Limit Actually Depends On
At 0.058% blood alcohol you are under the limit in Singapore and over it in Johor Bahru. Malaysia cut its limit from 0.0...
Grades, GPAs and What They Convert To
NUS publishes separate grade profiles for A-level and polytechnic applicants, and none at all for IB — because, it says,...
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