Business

Business 6 min Five years' service lifts Peninsular Malaysia's statutory severance pay for every year worked In Peninsular Malaysia and Labuan, the Employment (Termination and Lay-Off Benefits) Regulations 1980 set seve... DA Daniel Koh 8 Oct Business 5 min What a lucky 8 adds to a Hong Kong car plate, and what a 4 costs Across 2,679 plates sold at Hong Kong's online auctions, each extra 8 went with a price about 51% to 65% highe... DA Daniel Koh 29 Sep Business 5 min Do NFT creators still get royalties Over one day on OpenSea, collections that enforce their royalty paid it on 711 of 719 sales, and collections w... DA Daniel Koh 27 Sep Business 7 min What CPM, CPC and CPA actually count The industry's own guideline for a served ad impression says it does not require any part of the ad to be visi... EV Eva Chin 27 Sep Business 6 min Singapore's Small Claims Tribunals shut two years before your claim expires The tribunals lose jurisdiction two years after the cause of action accrued, while a contract claim lives for... EV Eva Chin 18 Sep Finance 7 min 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 Sarah Chew 18 Sep Business 5 min 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... EV Eva Chin 17 Sep Consumer Tech 4 min A barcode does not tell you where a product was made The chain message that reads country of origin off a barcode's first three digits has the standard against it.... AM Amelia Wong 13 Sep Business 4 min Singapore's Employment Act has no overtime pay cap The Ministry of Manpower publishes an overtime cap of S$2,600, or S$13.60 an hour. The Employment Act's Fourth... EV Eva Chin 13 Sep Business 5 min In Malaysia a lorry driver on RM6,000 still gets overtime and a clerk on RM4,100 may not A lorry driver on RM6,000 and a coordinator on RM4,100 work for the same employer, and on the face of the Firs... EV Eva Chin 13 Sep Consumer Tech 4 min No international rule says your passport needs six months left Airlines worldwide enforce a six-month passport validity margin as though it were international law. ICAO Anne... AM Amelia Wong 13 Sep Business 5 min Singapore's S$400 import limit is measured three different ways A S$390 pair of trainers with S$35 shipping sits under Singapore's S$400 import threshold on one test and over... EV Eva Chin 13 Sep Business 6 min Registered post pays about US$41 if it is lost, whatever was inside The Universal Postal Convention caps compensation for a lost registered item at a flat 30 SDR — about US$41 —... EV Eva Chin 13 Sep Business 6 min Samsung and Meta cleared their hearing aids by pointing at Apple's Apple's 2024 FDA authorisation was read as a competitive win. It created a new device classification instead —... EV Eva Chin 11 Sep Business 6 min Malaysia says an e-invoice needs 55 fields; its own appendix marks 20 optional The tax authority's guideline states that 55 data fields are required to issue an e-invoice. The appendix list... EV Eva Chin 9 Sep Business 5 min Why CSV Libraries Do Not Stop Formula Injection The same six values written by Python, by PHP, and by joining strings with commas. The libraries fix the comma... EV Eva Chin 25 Aug Business 5 min What a Spreadsheet Does to Your CSV Twenty-six values through a correct CSV file, into a spreadsheet, and back. Eight came out visibly different,... EV Eva Chin 25 Aug Business 5 min What a Year of Currency Movement Does to an Invoice A USD 10,000 invoice raised in January and paid in August was worth 10.8 million more rupiah, and 141 fewer Si... EV Eva Chin 21 Aug Business 6 min Atlassian Rose a Third on One Quarter. The Number That Matters Is Up 44%. Atlassian shares rose around a third after fourth-quarter results beat on every line, with cloud revenue accel... MA Maya Lin 9 Aug Business 8 min Singapore's Grant for First-Time Founders Got 65 Applications Last Year. It Approved 55 An 85 per cent approval rate on 65 applications says the filter is eligibility, not assessment. Two parliament... SA Sarah Chew 8 Aug Business 9 min Indonesia Halved GoTo's Ride Commission. Its Two Profit Guidance Ranges Simply Swapped A presidential regulation cut the two-wheeler commission cap from 20 per cent to 8. GoTo kept its group profit... EV Eva Chin 7 Aug AI & ML 13 min What Am I Actually Choosing Between? We Sorted 1,347 AI Tools by Shape The usual answer is five neat categories — chat assistants, copilots, command-line agents, autonomous runtimes... MA Maya Lin 2 Aug AI & ML 8 min How to Choose an AI Tool Without Believing the Marketing Five checks worth running before you adopt anything, and where each answer actually lives — because none of th... KE Kenji Tanaka 1 Aug AI & ML 11 min If You Put Engineers Inside Your Customers, Do You Still Have a Software Company? The question every product leader has about forward deployment is financial, and almost nobody selling the mod... JE Jeffrey Tan 31 Jul