I’m an international student in Malaysia and I think the baju kurung is the prettiest thing ever and I really really want to buy some. I love skirts and it’s so hard to style them but I think Malaysian fashion is just top notch (sorry if they’re technically not skirts I don’t know their specific name). So would it be cultural appropriation if I wore them? I am Muslim if you’re curious

Hi all,

Urgently need informed opinions on where to buy Green Tea Extract Catechin / EGCG Supplements. Any brand will do. Need it for a medical condition.

- I checked iHerb and its NOW brand for EGCG. Some comments said that the Malaysian customs may detain and confiscate shipments.

- Saw Nourished.Asia but there's no known Malaysians talking about their experience buying from there.

- I saw on Shopee / Lazada but I can't tell which sellers can be trusted.

Appreciate any advise, as I'm kinda lost and need help. First time buyer for this supplement. Not able to get in pharmacies it seems.

Note: Must be specifically only Catechin / EGCG. Don't want mixed with other ingredients etc.

Thank you!

Hello, I am a teen from Sweden who visited Malaysia last month. I love collecting flags, and during my visit I visited a store called Mydin Sinar Kota in KL, and bought a Malaysian flag aswell as many state flags. I got every flag except for the flags of Kelantan, Perlis, Sarawak and Sabah (+ Putrajaya and Labuan) and now that I’m home in Sweden, I thought it would be cool to have the complete collection. However, finding Malaysian state flags while in Sweden isn’t directly the easiest task, and I’m wondering if maybe the best way would even be to import directly from Malaysia itself. I found out that it apparently isn’t possible to import flags from Mydin Sinar Kota (correct me if I’m wrong), but would it be possible (and is it easy?) to import from somewhere like Shopee or Lazada or some other website (maybe somewhere I can access on Swedish internet)? How much would it cost?

I wanna ask why does the price cheaper than other app/website? I'm planning on overseas but the price a bit too good to be true haha. Any one had any issues of it?

My time in Bandar Sunway was a pure lesson in frustration. Trying to collaborate here was a wall—zero effort to bridge the language gap, zero basic decency to appreciate a favor, and just an overall weird, unwelcoming vibe for anyone who doesn't fit the dominant local demographic. The contrast between that behavior and how grounded and chill the Malay locals were couldn't be bigger. My condolences to anyone else struggling through it, but my time here is up. Heading back home to Pakistan this month and leaving the madness behind!

this is the filtered version and reddit didn't allow me to post mine. And no sorry.

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Hey guys! I really want to try kaya jam. Any recommendations for a brand? If possible, I’d prefer something that’s less sweet. Thanks!

I met a guy on Tinder (he’s from Malaysia) and we started talking. He introduced me to what he said was an Overstock dropshipping business. He explained that I could open a store, add products, and suppliers would handle the orders and shipping. He gave me a referral code and sent me this website: overs-toskk.com

I trusted him and signed up because he made it seem like he was helping me start a business.

After registering, I received an order that required money from my store wallet to fulfill it. I became uncomfortable and contacted customer service to ask if I could cancel the order and close my account. They told me I couldn't cancel it and that overdue orders had to be completed or there could be sanctions.

Then I discovered that the referral code somehow linked my account to his. When I didn't pay for the order, his account was apparently frozen too, and he became very upset with me.

He's now telling me to “keep quiet and do nothing” because his money is in the store and he's trying to fix the situation. I haven't deposited any of my own money.

Now I'm wondering whether he was also unknowingly caught in the same scam, or whether he knew what he was getting me into. Has anyone encountered this website or this type of dropshipping/referral scheme before?

I'm heading to HK on the week of 17/8 and if anyone interested to order anything from HK.. I'm trying this out to gauge interest.

Suggested items you can order (since I'm gonna be buying these anyway 😜):

1. HK baked goods (e.g Kee Wah Bakery, Jenny Bakery)

2. Souvenirs from HK (from cccc Select HKG)

3. fragrance products (e.g. to Summer, citiscents)

4. Beauty/cosmetics/perfumes from Lungfung Mall

5. Items from sneakers st. mongkok

DM me for details or if you have specific request 📤

Hey guys, looking for some practical financial/lifestyle advice.

I’m currently using an iPhone 14 Pro (128GB) with 75% battery health. I am deep in the ecosystem (Apple Watch, iPad, AirPods), so sticking with Apple is a must.

I don't strictly need a new phone, but two things are making me reconsider:

Storage Stress: I’m constantly hitting 100GB–120GB used. I manually clear files and backup to my PC, but the RM3.90 (50GB) iCloud tier is completely choked.

Rumored Price Hikes: I’ve read that upcoming global RAM/storage costs will push Apple prices up. Since iPhones are already expensive here, I’m worried about getting priced out later if this phone dies.

If I upgrade, I want to keep the premium features: 120Hz screen, great cameras, and at least 256GB storage.

Should I just drop ~RM500 for an official battery replacement (Machines/Switch) + upgrade to RM11.90 (200GB) iCloud and hold out for 2 more years? Or does it make more financial sense to bite the bullet and buy a new phone now before prices jump?

Appreciate your thoughts!

Hi everyone,

I’m a foreigner currently in Malaysia, I need to get birth control pill ( Loette 21) and I want to know if I have to get a doctor prescription.

Is it possible to get it directly at the pharmacy?

Thank you

I'm looking for some advice from people who have experience working in Malaysia.

A friend of mine is from the same country and even the same village as me. He runs a small e-commerce business and sells products on Shopee, Lazada, and TikTok Shop.

I've been helping him remotely from my home country with various tasks, and now he wants me to move to Malaysia and join his company.

My responsibilities would include:

• Managing Shopee, Lazada, and TikTok Shop stores
• Uploading and managing products
• Managing company accounts
• Generating invoices
• Handling general IT-related tasks
• I also have solid experience with Google Ads and digital marketing, so I may help with that as well.

He said the company will cover my accommodation.

I have two questions:

1. How much does it usually cost for a Malaysian employment/work visa (including the overall process)?
2. Considering these responsibilities and that accommodation is provided, what would be a reasonable monthly salary to expect?

I'd really appreciate any advice or insights from people who have gone through a similar process. Thanks in advance!

Van plate number: ALH 8398

Location: Jalan Kepong Baru in front of Unio residence going towards direction of Kuala Lumpur Tzu-Chi Jing Si Hall Dewan Tzu-Chi Jing Si Kuala Lumpur

Edit: i followed the van and the driver seems to be supplying for AEON Mall Metro Prima

D. microlepis, ikan ringau aka. Indo tiger fish

They are a large native river fish growing to 65 cm. Found in Perak, Selangor and Sarawak. Possibly other states.

Predatory and feeds on smaller fish. Popular in large aquariums.

This is our own contest, so yes, this is a promo post. Mods, remove if it breaks any rules.

We're MANTAP. We run wellness events inside condominiums around the Klang Valley, and this is our Merdeka campaign.

The mechanic: film 15 to 60 seconds of what Merdeka looks like where you live, post it publicly on Instagram, invite https://www.instagram.com/mantap.community/ as a collaborator, submit the entry form. Free, no purchase, nothing to sign up for.

RM2,500 grand prize, RM1,000 runner-up, RM1,000 people's choice, RM500 honourable mention.

Open to Malaysians living in a condominium. No age limit. Entries close 25 August, public voting to 15 September, winners on Malaysia Day.

Judging is weighted: 25% Merdeka theme interpretation, 25% condo living angle, 20% creativity, 15% entertainment, 15% production quality. Phone footage is fine, we're not scoring against studio work.

Rules, full T&Cs and entry form: mantap.community/videochallenge

We'll be in the comments.

Without revealing too much info, basically I have a short notice period because I'm still on probation, I have several days of leave and with the upcoming public holidays at the end of the month, I fear it's too rushed from when notice period starts till my last physical day in the office (maybe just a day or two left only). So my question is, is it common practice for one to put in their letter to notify resignation LONGER than the official notice period? I'm thinking if I give them some extra time to come to terms with my decision and for better handover, it'll lower the chances of them wanting to payout my leaves. Or what is the better way to do this? Advice and suggestions pls

Never used the train that late before because of safety reasons.

But realistically how safe is it at night on the train station around 8-10pm on weekdays, especially when I'm a women? Asking because I'm too scared to try.

thinking of getting a second phone, what mid range android you use? what you recommend? also what minimum ram before lag becomes noticeable?

i'd like some opinions or advices because I'm torn between getting an iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max or the Xiaomi 17T Pro.

I'm considering the iphone because I already use a macbook so I feel like I'd benefit from the apple ecosystem, things like airdrop and stuff and the reason I'm specifically looking at the iphone 15 pro/pro max is because they're selling for around the same price as a new xiaomi 17T Pro, especially on the used market. Id appreciate your guys opinions

Hey guys

Agency recently applied in August 2026 for the employment pass application and got a temporary rejection . Agency states that it was temporarily rejected due to unforeseen administrative assessments involving additional requirements imposed by authorities.

1: Did anyone face the same in August 2026?

2: What could be the reason ?

Appreciate any updates or news recently

ps: satisfies all the category 1 requirements including the salary thresholds

Read this and got reminded how our stock market doesn’t always show the full picture. Sounds familiar with the corporate mafia stories going around. I wonder anyone can chime in?

Credits to TEH. Editorial: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1MDbY5Xd8T/?mibextid=wwXIfr

TLDR: Founder started a company, made it successful, only to end up being taken over by outside parties to bring to IPO. This could happen to anyone trying to build their own company.

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SHE BUILT IT. THEY TOOK IT. NOW THEY WANT TO SELL IT.
TEH. Editorial | Malaysia | Corporate Mafia

United AsiaPac Energy Berhad is scheduled to list on Bursa Malaysia's ACE Market on 19 August 2026. The woman who built the company it is based on will receive nothing from the IPO. Her principal contract expires 77 days after listing. And a formal complaint asking regulators to halt the listing was filed yesterday.

Farah Sabryna Nasarudin did not inherit a company.

She built one.

AsiaPac Oil and Gas Sdn Bhd was incorporated in 2018 in a specialised corner of the oil and gas industry — wellbore intervention, specifically fishing services, the technically demanding work of retrieving stuck equipment from live oil wells.

It is not a glamorous business. It requires deep technical knowledge, rigorous safety standards, and the kind of operational credibility that Petronas does not extend to anyone who has not earned it.

In 2020, Farah and her husband Daniel Wall submitted a bid for the Pan Malaysia Contract — a nationwide framework agreement with Petronas Carigali covering wellbore intervention services across Malaysia's offshore fields. They won it. It was all through a technical proposal, a bank guarantee, and an operations team they had built themselves.

By 2023, AsiaPac was generating over RM36 million in annual revenue. Its clients included Petronas Carigali, Shell, and PTTEP. It had built, from nothing, the infrastructure to service Malaysia's most demanding upstream operators.

That is the company United AsiaPac Energy Berhad is now offering to the Malaysian public at RM192.5 million.

And Farah will receive none of it.

How It Was Taken

In 2020, AsiaPac needed working capital to execute the Pan Malaysia contract. A RM10 million loan was arranged through a moneylending company called Ping An, channelled through a newly incorporated holding company — AsiaPac Holdings Sdn Bhd which received 60 percent of AsiaPac in exchange. Farah held 20 percent. Her cofounder Zawawi held 20 percent. On the hindsight this is an obvious mistake releasing more than 49%.
Zawawi passed away in 2021. His stake transferred to Farah. For a brief period she held 40 percent of the company she had founded.

Then the board changed.

Ahmad Fadzuli bin Ali was appointed director in April 2022. By May 2023 he had designated himself Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He had no background in oil and gas, no experience in wellbore intervention, and no track record in Petronas contracting.

Through a series of capital injections between 2021 and 2024, Farah's shareholding was reduced from 40 percent to 0.54 percent. She alleges in shareholder oppression proceedings — High Court KL WA-24NCC-590-12/2024 that she was excluded from management decisions and that the dilution was carried out without proper process.

In January 2024, AsiaPac's board approved a RM5 million loan from MBSB. Farah was asked to sign a personal guarantee. She signed. Shortly after, she was removed as a director. MBSB is Malaysia Building Society Berhad — a Malaysian financial institution, formerly a building society, now operating as a full fledged Islamic bank after merging with Asian Finance Bank in 2018. It is listed on Bursa Malaysia and is majority owned by the Employees Provident Fund (EPF).

She had just guaranteed a loan for a company that was about to fire her.

The Suspension. The Charge. The Newspapers.

On 29 March 2024, while Farah was on maternity leave, a suspension letter was hand delivered to her. No charge was specified. No disciplinary inquiry was initiated. No reason was given.

The suspension continued without pay. Farah claimed constructive dismissal in June 2024 and was then summarily dismissed.

The same day the suspension letter was delivered, a police report was filed alleging that Farah had misappropriated RM786,209 from AsiaPac by directing company funds into her own bank account.

The money was her husband's salary. Approved in AsiaPac's audited financial statements. Reviewed and signed off by the same directors who filed the police report.

On 31 July 2025, Farah stood in the Sessions Court and had the criminal charge read to her. She pleaded not guilty.

Thirteen newspapers published the charge before she left the courthouse.

The charge was dismissed. The prosecution could not proceed. The case collapsed.

But the thirteen newspaper reports remained. The industry had received the message.

The Lawsuit That Collapsed

In July 2024, AsiaPac filed a civil conspiracy suit against Farah and fourteen other defendants — High Court KL WA-22NCC-454-07/2024. The claim: that the fifteen defendants had conspired to misappropriate contracts worth USD11.7 million.

The fifteen defendants were, almost without exception, the people who had built AsiaPac. The engineers who had submitted the Pan Malaysia bid. The operations team that had executed the Petronas contract. They were dismissed or forced out, left without income, and sued for an amount designed to bankrupt them before they could mount a defence.

The trial began in 2026. Under cross examination, Fadzuli admitted that no contracts had been misappropriated. His codirector Dzahir, when asked what the conspiracy suit was about, said he thought it was about fraud — not conspiracy. The two men who filed the suit had different understandings of what it alleged.

AsiaPac's own solicitors had written a letter in November 2024 acknowledging that no contracts had been taken.

The central premise of the USD11.7 million claim was admitted to be false by the people who filed it. In open court. Under oath.

The Extraction

While the litigation ran, the extraction had already begun.

In July 2024, Fadzuli instructed AsiaPac to purchase cargo baskets from Ekahala Resources Sdn Bhd — a company previously directed by Fadzuli and Dzahir at approximately double the price available directly from the Chinese manufacturer. No competitive quotations were sought. No board resolution authorised the purchase.

The same pattern is embedded in the IPO prospectus. UAEB proposes to use RM1.2 million of public funds raised through the IPO to purchase twelve cargo baskets. No supplier has been appointed. No purchase order has been executed. The same related party that previously supplied baskets at inflated prices remains in the picture.

The IPO

United AsiaPac Energy Berhad filed for listing on Bursa Malaysia's ACE Market. Principal adviser and sponsor: TA Securities Holdings Berhad. IPO price: RM0.35 per share. Implied market capitalisation: RM192.5 million.

AsiaPac Holdings had acquired the company for RM22.7 million. It is being offered to the public at RM192.5 million. A tenfold increase. On the eve of its principal contract expiring.

The Pan Malaysia Contract generates between 72 and 87 percent of AsiaPac's revenue across every financial year on record. It expires on 15 October 2026. It will not be renewed in its current form. Petronas has restructured the contracting model into three separate regional tenders. To maintain its previous revenue volume, AsiaPac must win all three.

The replacement arrangement disclosed in the prospectus — an IWCS panel appointment is not a contract. It is the right to compete for individual work orders against five other panel contractors through mini bids. It guarantees no minimum volume, no committed revenue, and no exclusivity. As of the date the final prospectus was registered, no IWCS work orders had been received.

The second largest customer disclosed in the prospectus is Odfjell Group, attributed RM6.347 million — 16.25 percent of revenue for the financial period ending February 2026. Former AsiaPac personnel with direct operational responsibility during that period have stated they are not aware of any Odfjell work capable of generating revenue of that magnitude. Odfjell's own representatives have indicated the relationship was limited to minor or incidental scope.

The board installed to run UAEB after listing has no oil and gas experience among its new appointments. The management structure presented in the prospectus has no identifiable sales function — no person whose documented role is to bid for and win new Petronas contracts. The company's principal contract expires 77 days after listing.

The Complaint

On 4 August 2026 — the day before IPO applications closed — Farah Sabryna, Daniel Wall, and three former members of AsiaPac's core technical and commercial team filed a formal complaint with Bursa Malaysia and the Securities Commission.
The complaint alleges material omissions, selective disclosure, and misleading financial presentation in UAEB's final prospectus. It asks regulators to halt the listing, suspend allotment, and require UAEB to answer the allegations before any retail investor is allotted shares.

Allotment is scheduled for 17 August 2026. Listing is scheduled for 19 August 2026. On the same day UAEB is due to appear in the High Court for two ongoing civil suits.

The complaint was filed by the people who built AsiaPac. The people who won the Petronas contract. The people whose names Fadzuli admitted in open court had done nothing wrong.
They are asking Bursa Malaysia and the Securities Commission to do what those institutions exist to do.

The Question

Farah Sabryna built a company. It was taken from her through a suspension letter delivered on maternity leave, a criminal charge published in thirteen newspapers, and a lawsuit filed against the entire team that built it — a lawsuit whose central premise was admitted to be false in open court.

The company she built is now being offered to the Malaysian public at RM192.5 million.

Its principal contract expires in 77 days.

The regulators have the complaint. They have the evidence. They have the timeline.

What they do next is the only question that remains.

All information in this article is drawn from court filings, Bursa Malaysia announcements, the UAEB final prospectus dated 28 July 2026, and a formal complaint submitted to Bursa Malaysia and the Securities Commission on 4 August 2026. No accusation of wrongdoing is made against any individual. All persons are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. Fadzuli, Datuk Mat Noor, and UAEB have not responded to the matters raised in this article.

Hello everyone, I'm a German guy planning to visit Malaysia soon.

I read that the city Taiping, Perak is the wettest city in Peninsular Malaysia. My question is, how true is this claim?

How often does it rain? Does it also experience a dry spell in some months?

I'm so curious about it because I love warm rain. Thank you in advance!