Honestly, I don’t care if this means prices of that R1 or Fazer are going up. US$63 per month in wages is exploitation!

Across the borders North and South of Malaysia, in Thailand and Singapore respectively, motorists are in a flurry as Kuala Lumpur announced last week plans for a ban on sale of petrol to foreign-licensed vehicles within a 50km radius of its borders.

Resident writer Jane Goh gets to the bottom of the oil barrel as we keep track of this story as it unfolds.

*Tak Boleh = Malay for ‘Cannot’

Road safety experts have urged authorities to step up on helmet laws for motorcyclists, especially with the young, after eight-year-old Le Xuan Han’s tragic death last month after a drunk driver crashed into her parents’ motorcycle. Her death, experts claim, could have been avoided if she had been wearing a motorcycle helmet.