Author: Dr Henry Tye & Team

The Budget 2027 gig workers package is worth RM160 million, jointly funded by the government and Grab from 2027, and it lifts median net income by up to RM227 a month for e-hailing drivers and up to RM100 a month for p-hailing delivery riders. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim...

The Budget 2027 SME wishlist SAMENTA put to the Ministry of Finance runs to 15 proposals, and its president says the three that matter most would cost the government almost nothing. In an interview with BFM 89.9 aired on 9 October 2026, hours before the budget was tabled, Datuk William...

Budget 2027 Malaysia was tabled in the Dewan Rakyat on Friday 9 October 2026 at 3.35pm, half an hour earlier than the usual 4pm slot, with total spending of RM459.8 billion — 3.6% above the revised 2026 allocation and 19.8% of gross domestic product. It was tabled by Prime Minister...

Malaysia does not tax much, and it knows it. The country's tax revenue sits at roughly 12.6 per cent of gross domestic product, low against regional peers, and the government has ruled out a new tax to close the gap. That leaves one obvious lever for Budget 2027: make the...

The Vircle DuitNow QR feature puts a payment app in children's hands outside school for the first time, allowing them to scan and pay at any merchant that accepts DuitNow QR while a parent keeps the controls. Vircle, a Malaysian fintech running since 2020, says the wallet is used across...

A TTPM claim Malaysia consumers rarely use is one of the cheapest legal remedies available: RM5 to file, up to RM50,000 in potential compensation, and no lawyer required. The Labuan chapter of the Tribunal for Consumer Claims demonstrated the arithmetic on 29 September 2026, issuing six awards totalling RM43,184 after...

Ticket tout scam Malaysia warnings have been issued at the start of the country's busiest event month of the year, with the Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Ministry telling the public to buy only through official channels. Deputy Minister Datuk Dr Fuziah Salleh said Malaysia hosts several international events...

A scratch-and-win scam Malaysia operation running out of luxury bungalows in Penang was dismantled on 22 September 2026, with 29 foreign nationals arrested and a haul of broadcasting equipment seized. Penang police chief Datuk Dennis Lim Kwang Keng confirmed the raids at a press conference on 1 October, describing a...

ILMUcode launched on 1 October 2026 at Universiti Malaya, an agentic AI coding assistant built on ILMU-GLM-5.3, the newest model in YTL AI Labs' ILMU family, developed in partnership with Z.ai. YTL is selling it as frontier-level coding capability on Malaysian sovereign infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of...