Posts Tagged ‘youth’

By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my MANJULI* was 19 when she fell victim to human traffickers two years ago. Her female acquaintance of four years tricked her into leaving her hometown in Perak to look for part-time jobs elsewhere, and she agreed without hesitation. “She asked if I wanted to work with her at a fast food [...]

Ole BRATs!

Posted: 15th February 2013 by R.AGE in BRATs
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Capital FM deejay Xandria Ooi joined the BRATs in 1999 when she was 16. She went on to become a VJ for Astro’s Hitz.TV when she won the music channel’s UVJ Search in 2005, all the while writing for The Star as a BRAT. She now has her own column in StarMetro called Sights & [...]

SHELTER Home for Children general manager, Cheok Hoong Poh said there is a “cut-off” age for youth to remain in the shelter. “We house children from the age of four to 12. When they turn 13, we arrange for them to continue their stay at Shelter 2 in Kuala Lumpur for girls or Shelter 3 [...]

Sheltering the future

Posted: 7th December 2012 by R.AGE in Stories
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By ANGELIN YEOH alltherage@thestar.com.my When Che Rozi Azrul Che Aziz was studying for his diploma in mechanical engineering, he would pretend to pack a suitcase every Hari Raya. “My friends would leave the dorm to go home to their families, and I always pretended that I was leaving too, telling them my family would be [...]

#RAGEchat: #WorldAIDSDay

Posted: 30th November 2012 by R.AGE in #RAGEchat, Stories
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ACCORDING to Rumah Solehah (a home for women and children living with HIV) project coordinator Fathiiah Hamzah, ignorance on HIV and AIDS-related issues is still prevalent among young people. The statistics released by the Malaysian AIDS Council’s Red Ribbon Youth Club shows that for every four cases of new HIV infection in 2011, one was [...]

Moving mountains

Posted: 23rd November 2012 by R.AGE in BRATs, Stories
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By TRISTAN TOH alltherage@thestar.com.my I WILL go on a personal mission to destroy you, if she does not speak at my event tomorrow.” That is not something you’d likely hear said to two of Hollywood’s most powerful publicists, especially coming from a 13-year old girl. But that was exactly what Bosilika An did when the [...]

The ABCs on STDs

Posted: 16th November 2012 by R.AGE in Stories
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By ANGELIN YEOH alltherage@thestar.com.my IT IS probably hard enough to get young people talking about sex, let alone about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) that could come with having unprotected sex. “Young people are most at risk of (contracting) STDs due to their low awareness on the diseases, the lack of prevention as well as biological [...]

By JERN KEN Photos by JASON LIOH alltherage@thestar.com.my HOW many of us actually know the extent of religious and cultural diversity in Malaysia? Well, not all of us unfortunately. I was recently involved in Projek Rumah Ibadat Kita-Brickfields, a local campaign which aims to strengthen religious tolerance among Malaysians through arts. The three-month project was [...]

By PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my WHAT is a freestyle festival you ask? It’s basically a platform for local artists and performers from various urban scenes to showcase their talents and exchange ideas with one another. Freestyle events have become pretty common in countries like Korea, Japan and Taiwan. Now it’s time Malaysian youth got to experience [...]

Wait for it

Posted: 12th October 2012 by R.AGE in Stories
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According to International Medical University (IMU) associate dean and consultant psychiatrist Professor Dr. Philip George, age clubbing and drinking age restrictions are in place to protect youths from becoming dependent on alcohol later in life. “Teenagers need to learn to deal with stress and life situations without depending on substances like alcohol. If they are [...]