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By DENIELLE LEONG and SATHESH RAJ Photos by DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my WHEN two BRATs found out that they were going to Kota Kinabalu (KK), Sabah, for an event that aims to expose Gen Y to environmental issues in greater detail, they were rather skeptical at first. These haze-stricken Peninsula kids genuinely thought they’d seen it […]
By JC LAM alltherage@thestar.com.my LAST week, our cover story featured Sheena Liam’s Asia’s Next Top Model win and how it provided her the opportunity of a lifetime to model in London. Well, for the young local playwriting community, that equivalent comes in the form of Islands and Cities: A Penang/Singapore Youth Playwriting Immersion Workshop. Before […]
If you have been on the internet lately and surfing through websites like PC Mag and CNET, you would have come across the term Heartbleed, a computer bug that has put Internet security at risk. The bug is so serious that it is being called the “worse security flaw in Internet history”, as it affects […]
By ANN-MARIE KHOR brats@thestar.com.my PRETTY much everyone – from politicians and celebrities to, well, even my parents – has taken a selfie before. Even the Oxford dictionary added the word to their databse last year, an indicator of how prevalent selfies have become. In fact, right now on Instagram, there are 96,437,563 photos (and counting!) […]
Stories by VIVIENNE WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my TEAM Malaysia aren’t the only ones flying the flag for Malaysian cheerleading. Local semi-professional teams compete at international tournaments quite frequently these days, and just a few weeks back, Team EMAS (Extreme Malaysia All Stars) won big at the Asia Cheerleading Invitational Championships (ACIC) in Singapore. EMAS’ senior and open […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my MALAYSIAN mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Ann Osman might be making headlines the world over with her fledgling yet eye-catching career recently, but the truth is, the sport has been growing slowly but surely over the past few years now. In fact, there is an increasing number of young people who […]
Story and photos by DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my LOVERS of the arts and budding performers can rejoice at the installation of new endeavour TheatreThreeSixty. Founded by Christopher Ling, Alex Chua, Nandang Abdul Rahman and Nicole Ann Thomas, this spanking new performing arts company promises to ramp up the excitement in the local scene. Ling revealed that […]
Stories by VIVIENNE WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my FOR many, Disney World in Florida, the United States is “the happiest place on earth” – and it’s particularly true for the five cheerleaders of Team Malaysia because it’s the venue for this year’s International Cheer Union (ICU) World Cheerleading Championships. The girls – Theng Kai Yee, 17, Yap Kah […]
By JC LAM alltherage@thestar.com.my THERE is always something new to learn from kids. Last Friday, nine Burmese children and 16 young international students demonstrated that showing their appreciation to Malaysia, their host country, need not be all flashy and fancy. Instead, all it takes is a little community cleaning. The host of the community project, […]
Imagine hunting for sharks. Now thinking bigger – think whales. Whaling is the act of hunting whales (duh!) for their meat and oil. While the practice has been recorded as far back as 5,000 years ago, industrial whaling only began somewhere in the 17th century, leading to competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and […]