Naming

ASEAN Tech 5 min Japan changed its romanisation rules and left names alone December 2025 replaced the 1954 standard and made Hepburn the basis after roughly seventy years. It explicitly... SA Sarah Chew 1 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min Korea's romanisation rules never covered surnames Apply the official standard to the four commonest Korean surnames and you get Gim, I, Bak and Choe. Passports... SA Sarah Chew 1 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min What passports do when you have only one name The near-universal advice is to write FNU in the empty given-name box. That is not an ICAO rule. The standard... SA Sarah Chew 1 Sep 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