ASEAN
Size the unit, then see what inverter vs non-inverter really costs
SG / MY / HK / TW / CN / PH / ID / TH / VN · format check
Calculate your BMI instantly using ASEAN health thresholds — metric and imperial.
Convert between Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Malaysia — with a False Friends panel that catches words like "pusing", "butuh", and "kereta" that mean different things in each country.
Estimate your body fat percentage using the Navy method — with ASEAN-specific health ranges.
Calculate your daily calorie needs in seconds — enter your details and get your maintenance calories instantly.
Turn a one-time IT price into a monthly OPEX financing plan
Calculate your pregnancy due date and current week — enter your last period or conception date.
Add or remove GST and sales tax instantly — Singapore 9%, Malaysia 8%, Thailand 7% and more.
Find your ideal weight range using 5 medical formulas — with ASEAN-adjusted healthy ranges.
Convert between Mainland Mandarin (普通话), Malaysian Mandarin (马来西亚华语) and Singaporean Mandarin (Singdarin) — with loanwords, particles, and Cantonese-influenced word order.
Translate between Standard English, Manglish (Malaysian English), and Singlish (Singaporean English) — with lah, lor, leh, makan, paiseh, kiasu, and all the rest.
Pak Long position system + Javanese/Sundanese/Sumatran/Tionghoa
How much rain your roof could catch — and what a tank would deliver
Calculate Singapore (YA 2026) and Malaysia (YA 2025) personal income tax with CPF/EPF — side-by-side, with all current brackets and reliefs.
See generation, bill savings and the year your panels pay for themselves
Malaysia SST at 6% · 8% · 5% · 10% — inclusive or exclusive
Calculate your daily calorie needs based on age, weight, height and activity level.
Convert times across ASEAN and global timezones — perfect for remote teams and international meetings.
Business days with ASEAN holidays
Malaysia's sovereign LLM, tuned on rojak speech, launched by the PM
Open-weight Indonesian LLM built for data sovereignty, not benchmarks
SEA-LION
Open-source LLM family for 11+ Southeast Asian languages
Sider AI
AI sidebar for any browser
AI interior renders from a photo, built by a Bangkok design-tech team
Thailand's most-downloaded open Thai LLM; free API in beta
Vietnam deleted the rule that made its ID numbers decodable, and nobody stopped decoding them
Since 1 July 2024 no Vietnamese instrument says the 12-digit citizen ID has any internal structure. The decree...
SA
4 Sep
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 U...
NA
4 Sep
Four ASEAN countries have no time zone of their own
Asia/Phnom_Penh, Asia/Vientiane, Asia/Kuala_Lumpur and Asia/Brunei are not time zones. They are links, and the...
KE
4 Sep
What passports do when you have only one name
The near-universal advice is to write FNU in the empty given-name box. That is not an ICAO rule. The standard...
SA
1 Sep
What a country will let you name a child
A name generator hands you something that sounds right; a registrar decides whether it can be recorded. Japan...
SA
31 Aug
Vietnam Will Teach AI in Every Grade. The Compulsory Core Is 12 Periods.
Every grade, 50,000 institutions, 27 million students. Then read the allocation: 12 periods a year, which is r...
SA
31 Aug
The Planned US Chip Tariffs Would Tax Assembled Laptops and Servers, Not Just Chips
A tariff on semiconductors sounds like a tax on wafers. The plans reported this week reach the finished laptop...
SA
30 Aug
Why a Pay Rise Won't Grow Your Pension
The OECD says Thailand's pension replaces 41.5% of an average wage and 20.7% of twice that. Singapore falls fr...
SA
30 Aug
Vietnam and Singapore Named Six Technology Fields and Zero Dollars
Six domains named at a first strategic dialogue, with no funding, timelines, targets or institutional mechanis...
DA
30 Aug
Thailand Raised Your Social Security Deduction. It Also Raised Your Pension.
The wage ceiling had not moved since 1995. On 1 January 2026 it went from THB 15,000 to THB 17,500, and it is...
DA
30 Aug
Malaysia's 6GW Data Centre Pipeline Is Announcements, Not Connections
Malaysia leads a regional pipeline of more than 6GW. Its own utility reports 8.3GW of pipeline, 3.8GW under co...
SA
29 Aug
ASEAN's Record $4.12m Breach Cost Comes From 26 Companies
IBM discloses the sample size and the coverage drops it. The comparisons inside the study — 123 days faster de...
KE
29 Aug
Vietnam Salary Deductions Explained (2026): New Tax Brackets, Insurance and Take-Home Pay
Your tax bill fell in January 2026, not July — on a ₫30,000,000 salary that is ₫450,000 a month. Seven bracket...
SA
29 Aug
Philippine Salary Deductions Explained (2026): SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and Tax
Your offer says ₱30,000 and your payslip says ₱26,542.45. Here is exactly where the rest goes — the three cont...
SA
29 Aug
Vietnam Wants Design Work Now, Not Just Assembly
Hanoi pressed Qualcomm and Samsung to deepen AI and semiconductor investment. The $500bn Samsung export figure...
SA
29 Aug
Samsung's Cheapest S26 Is the One That Matters in This Region
The Fan Edition carries the flagship's camera and AI to a lower price by economising where buyers notice least...
KE
27 Aug
Two Incidents Account for Half of the Philippines' 335 Million Exposed Records
Credentials are not records, records are not people, and 255 incidents are not evenly distributed. Reading Vie...
SA
25 Aug
Your Database Has One Collation for Southeast Asia
MySQL 8 ships 89 collations for utf8mb4 and exactly one is for a Southeast Asian language. Five of them sorted...
SA
23 Aug
What a Character Limit Does to Khmer
Truncation looks like the simplest thing a program does, until the same twenty-character limit hands an Englis...
SA
23 Aug
Vietnam's AI Law Has Been In Force Since March, And The Deadlines Start Next Year
Southeast Asia's first standalone AI law took effect on 1 March, applies to foreign as well as domestic entiti...
SA
23 Aug
Malaysia's Under-16 Rules Let Platforms Check Your Age Without Ever Seeing Your ID
Age verification has been in force since 1 June for platforms above eight million users, with penalties to RM1...
PR
23 Aug
From 30 September, Indonesia, Singapore And Thailand Get Android's New Sideloading Rules First
On certified devices in four launch markets, apps will need a verified developer behind them to install or upd...
AM
23 Aug
The Project Linking ASEAN's Payment Systems Has A Company, A Tender And Two Go-Live Dates
Nexus would connect India's UPI, Singapore's PayNow and Thailand's PromptPay through one hub. Governance sits...
SA
22 Aug
The Philippines' AI Hub Would Need 16 Per Cent Of Luzon's Grid
Pax Silica at New Clark City is projected to require 3 gigawatts of electricity and 130 million litres of wate...
SA
22 Aug