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If news reports are anything to go by, self-driving cars are set to actually become a thing in Malaysia – well, at least in Cyberjaya. On December 23, 2020, Futurise – a government-linked company (GLC) under Malaysia's Ministry of Finance – announced the approval of Malaysia's first testing route for self-driving vehicles. Called the Cyberjaya Malaysia Autonomous Vehicle (MyAV) Testing Route, the route was jointly developed by Futurise alongside Malaysia's […]

About a week ago, the news about Malaysian-Vietnamese-American Jocelyn Yow becoming the mayor of the city of Eastvale in California, U.S. spread like wildfire amongst Malaysians who were excited to see yet another individual drawing recognition to the country. Born in the U.S. to a Malaysian father and a Vietnamese refugee mother, Yow spent 15 years of her childhood in Alor Setar, Kedah – the city she considers her hometown […]

Who says you can't be a multi-millionaire by 10? For the third year running, nine-year-old Texan YouTube personality Ryan Kaji has been named the highest-paid YouTuber of the year by Forbes magazine, earning US$29.5 million throughout the year stretching from June 2019 to June 2020. His channel Ryan's World managed to snag just over 12.2 billion views during the same period, and currently has over 27.7 million subscribers who constantly […]

In Singapore, a woman recently made the news for killing 323 mosquitos within a single month, but as it turns out, she just might have also destroyed a large number that were specifically meant to lower the spread of the dengue virus. First bringing up her feat to local social news portal Stomp, the woman named Jen went into detail about how she'd gone on a one-month mosquito killing spree […]

Following a previous report saying that Singapore had approved the consumption of lab-grown chicken meat, the country is finally about to see it become available on a wider public scale. On December 19, 2020, U.S. food startup Eat Just debuted its lab-grown chicken meat (to be branded as Good Meat) at Leonie's – an exclusive members-only eatery in Robertson Quay, Singapore, with the ingredient coming in the form of breaded […]

In a world where shady characters exist aplenty, there are extremely elaborate scams, and then there are ones like these that baffle to no end. A man from Kalimantan, Indonesia found himself the victim of an extremely comical con job where he sold off his used handphone to a buyer who paid for it with fake money drawn on multipurpose paper with red markers. The story first appeared on Indonesian […]

On December 21, 2020, U.S. president-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine co-developed by drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech live on national television, reassuring Americans of the vaccine's safety and telling the people to go get themselves inoculated if they had the chance. After both he and his wife Jill received shots at a hospital in Delaware, Biden said that he did it "to demonstrate that people […]

Sometimes, you'll never believe what others are willing to pay for something you might think is worthless. Just like how one man couldn't believe that someone was willing to pay actual money for something he'd found in a pile of trash. On December 19, 2020, a Singaporean named Leslie Koh revealed in a Facebook post that he'd successfully sold an empty PlayStation 5 box for US$22 (SGD30) on popular marketplace […]

Dressing up for work has become something of a relic for many, as being forced to practice social distancing during the pandemic has also meant that lots of people are now working from home. But for those who still want to feel like absolute professionals with plenty of important things to do, Japanese fashion company AOKI has designed something to suit the mood. IMAGE: AOKIThey call it the "Pajamas Suit" […]