Lifestyle

It’s tax season again for Malaysians earning over RM34,000 for the Year of Assessment (YA) 2020. Tax residents can do so on the ezHASiL portal by logging in or registering for the first time.  If you’ve received your Income Tax Return (EA) Form, you may start filing your taxes now, …

Malaysians will be vaccinated with several different brands of COVID-19 vaccines, and the breakdown of the vaccines we’ll get are as follows: Pfizer-BioNTech; Oxford-AstraZeneca; Sinovac; CanSinoBIO; Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine. While there are plenty of vaccines to cover most Malaysians, the new virus variants that emerged recently like UK’s COVID-19 …

Another Godzilla movie is about to launch later this month, but it looks like we’re witnessing a battle of quite real monsters in the e-commerce market in Southeast Asia today. Shopee’s parent company, Sea Ltd., recently posted its financial results for 2020 and they make for an interesting reading. Despite …

During the week, gifted ceramicist and designer Christopher Spitzmiller is busy creating his exquisite lamps, tableware and accessories found in the most stylish design shops and homes across the country including the White House. But weekends find him at Clove Brook Farm, his picture perfect country retreat in Dutchess County, NY. Five years …

The excessive use of plastic packaging in many of our consumption behaviours has been a concern for a long time now. Over the years, we’ve definitely seen multiple startups tackle the issue, usually in the F&B sector. One that we’ve written about recently was Circlepac, which makes and sells compostable …

Did you know that our national, sector-wide minimum wage was actually introduced more recently than we would’ve expected? The Malaysian government announced the nationwide implementation of minimum wages in July 2012, and in the same year, the Minimum Wages Order 2012 came to being. The law was then enforced on …

Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Transport Baey Yam Keng announced today (March 5) that e-scooter and electric bicycle riders will soon have to take “mandatory theory tests”. He reasoned that these tests will help ensure all riders of such motorised devices are aware of the existing rules and codes of conduct. …

Author’s Blurb: Back in primary school, we had a recycling programme where students were encouraged to bring old newspapers from home and stack them into 1 metre towers. It was a fun way to educate us kids on the values of recycling. Trash4Cash has one hope: that there will one …

Shell and the Energy Market Authority (EMA) have awarded a research grant to a consortium led by local solar company Eigen Energy to pilot solar-powered charging stations by early 2022. As part of the pilot, these charging stations will be fitted at three Shell service stations in Tampines, Pasir Ris …