Malaysia

Business 6 min Malaysia's Exports Top RM200 Billion for the First Time, Growing at Fastest Pace Since 2021 September shipments rose 54.5% to RM215.1 billion, with electronics supplying most of the gain and the US and... EV Eva Chin 20 Oct Home & Living 6 min How hard design rain falls on a roof gutter in Singapore and Malaysia The water a roof gutter must carry is the design rainfall intensity multiplied by the roof's catchment area, a... AM Amelia Wong 19 Oct Cyber Threat Intel 4 min Forest City Scam Suspects Face Six Months at Most. China Just Sentenced Scam Bosses to Death Seven men charged over a fake crypto scheme in Johor face a general cheating charge, as Malaysia waits for its... KE Kenji Tanaka 17 Oct ASEAN Tech 5 min 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 Daniel Koh 17 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Malaysia Has Fast-Tracked 27 Data Centres Worth RM226 Billion. It Did Not Say How Much Power They Need Sixteen of the projects are in Johor. A parliamentary reply detailed 4,053 jobs and local content, while earli... SA Sarah Chew 15 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Tabung Haji Restores Services After Cyberattack but Has Not Said What Was Hit Malaysia's pilgrims fund was offline for about four days. Savings are safe, it says, but three THiJARI functio... DA Daniel Koh 14 Oct Health & Wellness 4 min Malaysia's MediAsas Medical Plan Launches in January, With Premiums Payable From EPF Budget 2027 adds a RM200 first-year subsidy for small-firm workers. Health policy experts ask whether enough p... AM Amelia Wong 14 Oct Home & Living 6 min Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong codes set stair risers lower than a US layout assumes Singapore's Fire Code and Hong Kong's Fire Safety Code limit risers in their escape stairs to 175 mm, and Mala... AM Amelia Wong 14 Oct 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