ASEAN
Size the unit, then see what inverter vs non-inverter really costs
All 11 ASEAN members, plus Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China · numbering-plan 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.
Decode a PayNow, DuitNow, QRIS, PromptPay or VietQR payload and recompute its checksum
Add or remove GST and sales tax instantly — Singapore 9%, Malaysia 8%, Thailand 7% and more.
See what the Robinson, Miller, Devine and Hamwi formulas give for a height of 5 ft or more, side by side with the BMI 18.5–22.9 band.
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.
Convert Standard English to Manglish or Singlish and back: makan, kiasu, paiseh, lah, lor, and "or not" on yes/no questions.
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, now also Indosat's consumer AI app
SEA-LION
AI Singapore's open-weight LLMs tuned for Southeast Asian languages
AI interior and architecture renders from a Bangkok design-tech team
Open Thai-language models for text, documents and speech, with a free beta API
Singapore Weighs Legal Action Over the Haze. Malaysia Says That Would Mean Severing Ties
Timor-Leste has shut schools and the region's haze monitor is at its highest alert. Singapore's environment mi...
DA
17 Oct
Phone number lengths across ASEAN's eleven members, from the regulators' own plans
How many digits follow the country code in each of ASEAN's eleven members, from the regulators' own numbering...
KE
3 Oct
Kakak is an older sister in Malaysia and any older sibling in Indonesia
Malaysia's Kamus Dewan Perdana defines kakak as an older sister; Indonesia's KBBI defines it as an older sibli...
AM
3 Oct
The notes that can go in an ang bao for Lunar New Year 2027
Lunar New Year 2027 falls on 6 February. Which notes you can get for an ang bao, lai see or 紅包 in Singapore,...
SA
1 Oct
Public holidays 2027 and the best days to take leave in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong
The 2027 public holidays in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, the longest breaks a few days of leave can buy...
AM
30 Sep
How many Indonesian words can you make from seven letters
A random rack of seven letters makes a median of at least 23 Indonesian words, but a word using all seven turn...
NA
27 Sep
What Chinese AI video generators cost, and whether you can pay from Singapore
You can sign up for most Chinese AI video generators with just an email, and none of their open-weight licence...
PR
27 Sep
UnionPay Says Its QR Network Reaches Every ASEAN Country
The figure was disclosed at a trade fair in Nanning, not audited. A 90 per cent fall in fraud at pilot banks a...
SA
25 Sep
The 24 solar terms in 2026, and why the date moves every year
A solar term is a moment, not a day: 寒露 2026 is 8 October at 14:29. Here are all 24 with their times, matchi...
NA
25 Sep
Two published rules for the new moon disagree about one month in three
MABIMS and Muhammadiyah's wujudul hilal are both published and computable a year ahead. Worked through fourtee...
NA
21 Sep
The payment QR on the counter is a line of text you can read
ASEAN merchant payment codes all use one published format: a flat string of tag, length and value. Decoding a...
KE
21 Sep
Two ASEAN countries tie your broadband to the speed you were sold, and only one checks
Malaysia requires 90% of your subscribed fibre speed and collects the results quarterly. Thailand sets 70% of...
SA
20 Sep
A helmet can meet the standard Philippine law names and still be illegal there
The Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia all build their helmet rules on the same UN regulation, but only Malay...
SA
20 Sep
A4 is the answer to an equation, and US Letter is not the answer to anything
Two constraints — a ratio of √2 and an area of one square metre — have exactly one solution, and that solution...
NA
20 Sep
The same blood pressure reading is hypertension in America and not in Singapore
135 over 85 is stage 1 hypertension under the American guideline, high-normal in Singapore, and hypertension a...
AM
20 Sep
ASEAN Pulls Its Upgraded Trade Pact Forward. The Date Is Not Settled.
Singapore's deputy prime minister named the end of this year. The host country's own readout of the same meeti...
SA
20 Sep
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 r...
SA
19 Sep
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...
AM
19 Sep
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...
KE
19 Sep
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...
NA
19 Sep
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...
EV
18 Sep
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 exp...
SA
18 Sep
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...
SA
18 Sep
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 ti...
EV
17 Sep