It’s the first day of the fasting month and already there are issues involving residents and petty traders across Kuala Lumpur. Last year, DBKL moved its application process to an online system but this has caused much confusion to both parties as there are roads being closed for traders to set up shop directly in front of apartments and residential area.

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A report from the analytics firm Ghost Data has found that Instagram is a hotbed for the buying and selling of knockoff fashion, from fake Chanel bags to dupe Gucci slides to counterfeit Adidas tracksuits. According to the firm’s study, published in April, nearly 20 percent of all posts about fashion products on Instagram feature counterfeit products.

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International businesses are attracted to countries where the government doesn’t meddle with the content of the press, stifle freedom of expression, or arbitrarily threaten media organisations with the threat of closure based on the content that they publish.

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It wasn’t too long ago that Malaysia saw an unprecedented change of government, and with it came the potential of enhanced freedom of expression and the media. While we may not be there just yet, our spot on the Press Freedom Index seems to indicate we’re moving in the right direction.

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It’s World Press Freedom Day, and we thought we’d explore the idea of whether or not Social Media sites should be responsible for the news that they show. Do they have a right to censor what we see there, and more importantly, if we give them the power of curation, how do we know that we can trust their sources?

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We’ve often theorized about phones secretly recording our conversations and using that data to show us eerily accurate ads on various social media platforms. But according to Google’s former design ethicist, phones don’t need to eavesdrop on our conversations at all, because the truth of how these ads work is a lot more unsettling.

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Over the past number of years, Facebook has been under heavy scrutiny with privacy issues. They even hinted in its latest earnings report that it’s expecting to pay between $3 to $5 billion in fines for violating the privacy agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission. So it’s not a surprise that at its recent F8 Developers Conference, Mark Zuckerberg wants the social media network to be a privacy-focused social network. But do we trust them?

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Indonesia are seriously considering moving their capital city due to overcrowding and the possibility of the north of the island sinking due to climate change. If you had the opportunity to ‘push the reset button’ on our capital city, what would you change?

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The number of dead people on Facebook could outnumber the living within 50 years, according to analysis from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).

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Buy. Sell. Uncage. Welcome to the world of Depop - a social shopping app that’s been described as a mix of eBay and Instagram - that is perfectly in line with Gen Z’s shopping habits, and is bringing about major change in the fashion industry.

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