News & Reviews:   Grab Malaysia announce

There have been quite a few friendly tensions between Malaysia and Singapore lately. As most of you know, Singapore has added six dates of concerts for Coldplay while Malaysia only has one. Then there's also Jocelyn Chia who crossed the line about MH370. And now, there's a drama going on between a Grab delivery partner and two Singaporean men.

In conjunction with International Women's Day two days ago, Grab Malaysia announced a new AudioProtect feature for the Grab app. Designed to further enhance the safety of its driver-partners and passengers, it's being rolled out in phases starting today. 

If you have subscribed to the new GrabUnlimited that was introduced nearly a month ago, you're in luck - Grab Malaysia just announced that the early birds who did will continue to pay just 1 sen/month for the next two months! Not only that but there will be more updates and promotions on the GrabUnlimited plan.

To adapt to the current pandemic, Grab Malaysia just launched a new GrabSupermarket service for Malaysians to shop online at the comfort on their couch. It's a new online grocery delivery service and it seems to have a wide variety of household needs from food to household products, and of course health supplements.

As we enter a new Recovery MCO period until the end of August, Grab Malaysia have just issued a new policy for every Malaysian citizen before taking a ride. From the Grab app, they are introducing the GrabProtect Care Kit as well as an online health and hygiene declaration form starting this month. Here's what you need to do before getting into your Grab ride.

In early April, we have reported that our government was considering a drive-through or online Ramadan Bazaar. Well, turns out that it is true all along and Grab Malaysia will be helping out on that. Here's how Grab will bring you a festive Ramadan season at your home. 

In line with the Pakej Rangsangan Ekonomi Prihatin Rakyat that was announced earlier today by our Prime Minister Muhyiddin today, Grab Malaysia have released an official response and decided to give us a better picture of the allowance allocation. Called as the Partner Protection Fund and Partner Relief Fund, here's a brief summary.

In this short news, Grab Malaysia announced that their Ride Cover insurance package will be coming to the Grab app soon and it's now live. As we reported before, each passenger can opt-in for the package and pay RM0.35/ride only but it gets better - it now comes with a Free COVID-19 coverage as well.

New update - Respecting the latest update from our Prime Minister announced this afternoon, Grab will be suspending the “self pick-up” option which was launched today. Grab is supportive of the government’s initiatives in flattening the curve of Covid-19 and will continue to work closely with relevant authorities during these trying times.

It's now Day 6 and Grab Malaysia have announced more updates on their services during this Movement Restriction Order period. While we are still able to go out to grocery stores and hypermarkets to resupply our food stock, we can now do our own "Self-Pickup" on GrabFood as well as Pasar on GrabMart. Here's how it works. 

Just yesterday, Grab Malaysia announced that their services will go on as usual and same goes to foodpanda. However, foodpanda also announced that they have implemented a new contactless delivery method and it seems that Grab Malaysia will follow suit with a bunch of other new updates as well.