The Cyber Security Bill 2024 (“Bill”) was passed by both the Dewan Rakyat (House of Representatives) and Dewan Negara (Senate) on 27th March 2024 and 3rd April 2024 respectively after being tabled by the Minister of Digital, Gobind Singh Deo. The Bill will be the first overarching piece of legislation dedicated to addressing cyber security …
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Introduction As the world strides towards the digital age through the widespread adoption and avid usage of technology and the internet, it is possible for anyone to have access to a myriad of information, including one’s personal information. The internet is now used as a platform to conduct business, store information and even manage one’s …
Malaysia’s national budget for 2024 (“Budget”) was announced by Prime Minister and Finance Minister YAB Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim on 13th October 2023 and is themed “Economic Reforms, Empowering the People”. This represents the largest expansionary budget in the country’s history with an allocation of RM393.8 billion with various tax measures aimed at broadening …
ChatGPT (a generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) language model system) took the world by storm when it first launched in November 2022. It is designed to generate instantaneous human-like text responses and to engage in dialogue with users through predictive patterns trained on massive datasets – which includes sources from books, websites and the internet at …
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Finance Bill 2023 & Explanatory Statements The Malaysian Government first announced on 24th February 2023 the revised National Budget for the year 2023 (“Budget”) themed “Developing Malaysia MADANI” with a focus on the six core values of Sustainability, Prosperity, Innovation, Respect, Trust and Compassion. On 3rd April 2023, the Finance Bill 2023 (Bill No. DR …
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The Malaysian Government first announced that the nation will enter the first phase of a Full Movement Control Order (“FMCO”) from 1st June 2021 to 14th June 2021. This was further extended for another two weeks from 15th June 2021 to 28th June 2021. Recently, it was announced that this nationwide lockdown under the National …
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As opposed to Peninsular Malaysia, the legislation that regulates the employment law in Sarawak is the Labour Ordinance (Sarawak Cap. 76) (hereinafter referred to as ‘‘SLO’’). Those working in Sarawak are entitled to certain benefits under the SLO. Should these benefits be withheld from an employee, he is still entitled to those benefits under the …
In this day and age, social media such as Facebook, Reddit and Twitter have become a fundamental part of our daily lives. This has made it easy for people to share their feelings, comments, or statements on social media. Lately, it has been a trend to see people “fame-shame” people online, often as a reaction …
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The Prime Minister in his PEMERKASA speech on 17th March 2021 officially announced that the statutory demand threshold for winding-up petitions will be permanently kept at RM50,000. The Minister of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs through the Gazette Notice Prescription of Amount of Indebtedness of Company under Paragraph 466(1)(a) (Gazette Notification No. 4159/2021) has set …
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Whatever your opinion on the 45th President of the United States, the fact of the matter is that ‘fake news’ is now a part of our lexicon, so much so that that the latest ‘Fake News Bill’ (that is, Emergency (Essential Powers) (No.2) Ordinance 2021) is colloquially known as such. Operational from 12 March 2021, …
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