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In May 2023, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim stated that the Cabinet would discuss a proposal to raise employers’ contribution of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to 20%. This comes after requests were made by the Union Network…

Gaming platforms charge an entry fee from the user to allow them to participate in a particular game.  The story so far: At the recently concluded 50th GST Council meeting, it was decided that online gaming would be taxed at 28% on the…

The Forrests also stressed, in a shared statement, that their decision to separate would have no impact on the mining business or their charitable foundation, the Minderoo Foundation.“There is no impact on the operations, control or…

By 2030, the Malaysian government aims to have 100,000 electric cars, 100,000 electric motorcycles, and 2,000 electric buses on our roads.  It might sound like a tall order, since it was reported in December 2022 that there were only over…

A new study shows that birth-control pills negatively impact women's stress response. Women have used birth-control pills since the 1960s, but researchers still do not know everything about the body's complex reaction to the small,…

A group from Nagoya University in Japan has discovered that when the diet of nematodes, tiny worms measuring about a millimeter or less in length, includes the bacteria Lactobacillus reuteri, the weakening of associative learning ability…

Dog breeds differ in pain sensitivity, but these differences don't always match up with the beliefs people -- including veterinarians -- hold about breed-specific pain sensitivity. The results appear in a new study from North Carolina State…

Using 3-D models of ovarian cancer tumors, scientists found differences in gene activity based on where a cell is in a tumor, demonstrating how a cell's location and environment in a cancerous tumor can strongly influence which genes are…

The Uniform Civil Code (UCC) is back in the spotlight after Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorsed it while talking to booth-level workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. In what is…

Their decline compromises the quality of our sleep, making it harder to get enough deep sleep — the sleep stage that promotes mental and physical restoration. That’s the reason why even if you spend the same number of hours in bed as you…