Malaysia

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 Home & Living 6 min 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 Amelia Wong 3 Oct Statistics 4 min Malaysia's open postcode list names 2,930 codes MCMC's open postcode list names 2,930 Malaysian postcodes. How the first two digits mark the state, the one co... NA Nadia Rahim 3 Oct Finance 7 min Malaysian road tax in 2026 depends on where the car lives The same 1,998cc saloon pays RM379 in road tax in the Peninsula and RM273.50 in Sabah or Sarawak, and the gap... DA Daniel Koh 3 Oct Home & Living 5 min Singlish and Manglish words in the Oxford English Dictionary Which Singapore and Malaysian English words the OED has recorded and when: 21 Singapore entries in 2016 and a... AM Amelia Wong 1 Oct Privacy & Data 5 min What the 12 digits of a Malaysian IC number record What each part of a MyKad number (nombor IC) records: the date of birth with no century, JPN's state and count... PR Priya Nair 1 Oct Home & Living 7 min 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 Amelia Wong 30 Sep Health & Wellness 4 min How many weeks you have left, by Singapore and Malaysian life tables A Singapore resident aged 65 can expect about 1,127 more weeks on the 2025 life tables, 141 more than the figu... PR Priya Nair 30 Sep Privacy & Data 6 min Electronic signatures in Singapore and Malaysia, and the documents the law still excludes In Singapore a typed, drawn or pasted signature can meet a legal signature requirement if the method identifie... PR Priya Nair 30 Sep Science 6 min Why stopping distance charts disagree at the same speed At 90 km/h, Singapore's driving handbook says 95 metres, Britain's table gives 73 at a slightly higher speed,... NA Nadia Rahim 29 Sep Home & Living 5 min What dim sum names mean, and why menus translate them so many ways Har gow is a shrimp dumpling, cheung fun a rice-noodle roll, and Singapore's carrot cake is really white radis... EV Eva Chin 23 Sep Home & Living 4 min The Chinese words Singapore and Malaysia use that the mainland does not In Singapore you shop at the 巴刹, live in a 组屋 and wear a 大衣 that is a suit, not an overcoat. Here are th... EV Eva Chin 22 Sep Home & Living 6 min Why your traditional Chinese age is one or two years higher In the traditional count, 虚岁, you are one at birth and gain a year at Lunar New Year. Whether that puts you... AM Amelia Wong 21 Sep Finance 7 min 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 Sarah Chew 19 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min Data Centres Took 4% of Peninsular Malaysia's Power; Moody's Sees 31% by 2035 Meeting that needs 14 to 17 gigawatts of new capacity at up to RM95 billion, while 13 gigawatts of existing pl... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min An Istanbul Firm Built a Voter-Targeting Platform for All 222 Malaysian Seats Anthropic says the operators used census data, a thousand fake X accounts and a fake news site — and pitched M... SA Sarah Chew 14 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min Malaysia Ranks Second in ASEAN. The Index Is the Operators' Own. The GSMA placed Malaysia behind Singapore on infrastructure, data governance, cybersecurity and AI policy. Thr... SA Sarah Chew 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 Home & Living 4 min Best before and use by are the same date in Singapore Most shoppers read one as a quality suggestion and the other as a safety deadline. Singapore's Food Regulation... AM Amelia Wong 13 Sep Sustainability 6 min There is no such thing as Malaysia's grid emission factor The Energy Commission publishes three regional factors spanning 3.7 times — Peninsular 0.740, Sabah 0.539, Sar... NA Nadia Rahim 12 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 Finance 6 min Malaysia banned the Rule of 78, and the Rule of 78 was never the expensive part On Bank Negara's own worked example the Rule of 78 costs an early settler at most about RM632 on a RM100,000 l... SA Sarah Chew 4 Sep Cybersecurity 6 min The DMARC tag that meant 10% of the time now means all the time RFC 9989 removed the pct tag in May 2026, and the same document says receivers must ignore tags that are not r... KE Kenji Tanaka 4 Sep Privacy & Data 7 min 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 thre... PR Priya Nair 4 Sep