Photo by pikselstock / Shutterstock.com Retirement is the time to enjoy the fruits of many years of laboring away at a job. However, if you aren’t careful, Uncle Sam can reach in and pluck away your hard-earned savings bit by bit, year after year. When the tax man cometh during …
Read More »Their “Rotten” Agenda Has Saved Over 1 Million Kilograms Of Waste From Landfills In Kuching
Author’s Blurb: The issue of food waste has been talked about for as long as I can remember. You’d think that managing it would be a lot easier than managing inorganic waste, but somehow we as a species still struggle with it. On an individual level, not enough of us …
Read More »100% Of The Donations On This Site Will Go To M’sians Who Lost Their Jobs Due To COVID-19
According to data from the Department of Statistics Malaysia, an estimation of 2.1 million workers in Malaysia have been displaced and thrust into unemployment due to the COVID-19 crisis. In light of this, an online crowd donation platform called SamaBantu, which is automated, transparent, traceable, and auditable at any time, …
Read More »Coronavirus Live Updates: Cases in the U.S. Grow to Their Highest Levels Since April
Here’s what you need to know: The U.S. just recorded its third-highest total of new virus cases. The global economy will shrink 4.9 percent this year, the I.M.F. predicts in a more dismal forecast. How the world is learning to live a virus that’s here to stay. Biden has a …
Read More »GE 2020: It’s Official, S’poreans Need To Cast Their Election Votes On July 10
A General Election has been called and Polling Day will be on July 10. The Parliament has also been dissolved, and Nomination Day has been set for June 30. Under the law, Polling Day at any general election shall be a public holiday. All employees covered by the Employment Act …
Read More »They Helped Clients To RM8 Mil Of Revenue In 2019, Now They’re Eyeing RM3 Mil Of Their Own
Malaysia has an estimated e-commerce market value of USD4 billion. Doesn’t sound too shabby, until you expand the borders to include SEA and you’re now looking at a USD100 billion market. If you’re a business owner with some measure of ambition, you’d want a slice of that. But getting your …
Read More »Why Half of Retirees Now Pay Taxes on Their Social Security
Photo by rayjunk / Shutterstock.com Having Social Security taxes taken from your paycheck is bad enough. But for millions of Americans, the obligations don’t end there. Half of retirees say they paid income taxes on their Social Security benefit income during the 2019 tax year, according to a survey by …
Read More »We Gave A Boomer & A Gen Z The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, Here Are Their Honest Thoughts
Okay, so when it came to all the new foldable phones on the market, people were talking about them like they were some throwback to the past, and I personally had thought, “Yeah, kinda”. However, when I acquired the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip, I realised it was the furthest thing …
Read More »COVID-19 Has People Tightening Their Belts, But Here’s What S’poreans Are Still Spending On
Regular life has been thrown off the rails by Covid-19, and part of its effects is a massive decline in spending. According to the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)’s recent macroeconomic review, about 60 per cent of consumer spending has been affected. With air travel halted and non-essential services suspended …
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