“Is your star employee on leave today?” I asked the boss of the mamak shop at the checkout. “The authorities are making their rounds this week, so he won’t be coming in.” The boss replied nonchalantly as he rang up my bill. It is not unusual to hear that some foreign workers do not possess…
Have you ever been told that your loan application is rejected because you have a low credit score on CTOS? You might then find yourself wondering, “what right does CTOS have, to give me a credit score and publish it without my permission”? CTOS is a credit reporting agency that collates credit reports from various…
The incident of a woman getting trapped inside the luggage compartment of a bus while retrieving her suitcase[1] had caught the netizen’s attention. It sounded like something that would happen in a nightmare, not at the end of a bus ride. If you ever find yourself in a situation where you are trapped in an…
If you drive regularly, then the sight of men with their faces partially covered and with containers of pickled mangoes in their hands pacing up and down at traffic light junctions might be familiar to you. Once the traffic light turns red, these men would walk in between the cars to sell their goods. They…
The recent viral incident involving a Malaysian woman whose passport renewal application was denied by an immigration officer due to her lack of fluency in Bahasa Malaysia has garnered widespread attention[1]. With the increased use of Bahasa Malaysia in the country, particularly in government-related matters, you may be forgiven in thinking that proficiency in Bahasa…
“Your lawyer fee so expensive…it is okay, I will just get my real estate agent to do the tenancy agreement for me, she said she can do it as part of her package” the prospective client said to me upon seeing the fee quote that I provided for the drafting of a tenancy agreement. This…
If you are the type to celebrate Valentine’s Day, the dawn of “V Day” can be exciting or dreadful, depending on whether you have someone to spend it with. For this year’s Valentine’s Day, legally speaking, your pool of potential candidates may have widened to include someone else’s spouse, due to the recent Federal Court’s…
I have suffered through countless rush hour traffic jam, but there is this one memory that has stuck with me until today: my mom and I were running late for my violin lesson because we were caught in the rush hour traffic jam. I looked out of the window and I saw cars speeding away…
A Chinese Muslim eatery in Kuala Lumpur attracted criticisms from the public when news was published that it sacked its employee after a video of that employee wearing a cross necklace at work, went viral. While most of the netizens were aghast at the action taken by the eatery against the employee, did you also…
Guarded community has become the norm rather than the exception these days. Developers often use this as a selling point to promote new housing projects. However, like in any residential community, there would be those who stubbornly refuse to pay the monthly security charges imposed to maintain the facility. If you are a fee-paying resident,…