Malaysia

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 Sustainability 7 min Southeast Asia's First Data-Centre Protest Was About Dust, Not Water Nikkei reports data-centre opposition spreading across Asia. The region's first protest was in Johor in Februa... NA Nadia Rahim 2 Sep ASEAN Tech 8 min 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 Sarah Chew 29 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min 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 Priya Nair 23 Aug Business 8 min ZUS Coffee Beat Starbucks In Malaysia. Now It Has To Price What It Is. An IPO exploring at least RM1bn at a valuation near RM4bn would test whether an app-first coffee chain is read... DA Daniel Koh 22 Aug Sustainability 8 min Singapore Will Import 900MW Of Solar From The Johor It Competes With For Power Two conditional approvals cover 300MW to Sembcorp and 600MW to a Ditrolic subsidiary, from solar and storage i... NA Nadia Rahim 22 Aug ASEAN Tech 8 min Two MPs Asked What the Johor Rail Link Does to Singapore Retail. The Numbers Come Later The government says the RTS Link brings net benefits and that its taskforce reports later this year. The proje... SA Sarah Chew 8 Aug Sustainability 8 min Malaysia Says Data Centres Will Take 31% of Its Electricity by 2035 A written parliamentary reply puts data-centre electricity use at 31 per cent of national consumption by 2035,... NA Nadia Rahim 5 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min Malaysia Told Firms an AI Cannot Decide Alone — In Guidance That Is Not Binding Malaysia issued guidelines on automated decisions, impact assessments and privacy by design on 30 April. They... PR Priya Nair 4 Aug Chinese Culture 10 min Tracing Chinese Ancestry in Southeast Asia: Start With How Your Name Is Spelled Tan, Chan and Chin are the same character. Which one is on your IC records which dialect group your family bel... EV Eva Chin 1 Aug Health & Wellness 8 min Same Body, Two Verdicts: What the Drink-Drive Limit Actually Depends On At 0.058% blood alcohol you are under the limit in Singapore and over it in Johor Bahru. Malaysia cut its limi... AM Amelia Wong 1 Aug Statistics 9 min Grades, GPAs and What They Convert To NUS publishes separate grade profiles for A-level and polytechnic applicants, and none at all for IB — because... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Aug Finance 11 min Keeping Crypto Records You Can Actually File IRAS publishes a list of eight things your crypto records should contain. An exchange CSV gives you four of th... DA Daniel Koh 1 Aug Finance 9 min What a Car Actually Costs to Own in Malaysia and Singapore A Singapore Category A COE closed at S$126,000 in July — roughly eight times the price of an entire new Perodu... DA Daniel Koh 1 Aug Statistics 12 min Kati, Tahil, Cups and Grams Ask for a catty of pork and you get 500 g in Guangzhou, 600 g in Taipei and 604.8 g in Singapore — all three l... NA Nadia Rahim 1 Aug Finance 9 min Living in One Country, Earning in Another Singapore counts 183 days, Malaysia 182, Indonesia more than 183 — and all three count them over different win... DA Daniel Koh 1 Aug Finance 11 min How to Read Your Payslip in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia Every line on your payslip, what it actually is, who pays it, and which ones you can change. Including the Sin... DA Daniel Koh 31 Jul Finance 8 min What Changed in the Statutory Rates This Year If you earn S$60,000 in Singapore, your tax bill this year is S$200 higher on identical income — and no rate c... DA Daniel Koh 29 Jul Chinese Culture 9 min Dates, Calendars and Holidays Across ASEAN Ask our working-days calculator how many working days Singapore has in 2026 and it used to say 252. The answer... EV Eva Chin 29 Jul Sustainability 11 min Solar Payback on a Tropical Roof Malaysia gets more sun than Singapore, and our own calculator duly reported that a Malaysian roof paid for its... DA Daniel Koh 29 Jul Home & Living 15 min House Calculations for a Tropical Climate Ask this site how much air-conditioning a Petaling Jaya bedroom needs and, until this week, you got two differ... AM Amelia Wong 29 Jul Business 12 min Naming a Company in Malaysia and Singapore: What SSM and ACRA Actually Accept Your first three names get rejected and nobody explains why. Both registries run a mechanical test: they strip... EV Eva Chin 29 Jul