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By CHOW QIAN YING and TAN JEN LI Photos by TAN JEN LI, CHOW QIAN YING and MELISSA ONG brats@thestar.com.my ONE common piece of advice many successful business people give their younger counterparts is to always think big. And that is exactly the lesson the aspiring young entrepreneurs at the recent National Youth Entrepreneurship Weekend […]
Stories by CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my IF hook-up apps are currently the “mainstream” way to find love in the digital age, then classified advertisements websites would definitely be the underground version. A quick look into the “personals” section at the local version of an international classifieds website revealed plenty of ads for transgender escort services and […]
By DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my MOST of you are probably wondering: what happens after the four-day, three-night BRATs workshops? You put your newly-acquired journalistic skills to the test, of course! BRATs isn’t just a one-off thing – once you’re a BRAT, you’re a BRAT for life; and it’s not a bad thing, honestly. So you can […]
By SAMUEL LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my IMAGINE being locked in a tiny dark room with no windows for 45 minutes. Not exactly your idea of fun? Well that’s precisely what fans of “room escape games” enjoy doing. The concept of these games are pretty simple – they lock you in a room (usually dark and spooky) containing […]
By CARLOS RUBEN DOURADO brats@thestar.com.my I HAVE been driving for over a year now and to be honest, it has been one heck of a roller coaster ride. I was recently involved in an accident and the experience has, without a doubt, taught me how to be more defensive on the road – especially when […]
By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my IF you were to ask Bank Negara financial analyst Marisha Naz, 25, where the best pad thai in the world is, she would tell you to look for a roadside shack in Lat Krabang, Thailand and it would be cooked by an eight-year-old boy. “I was really sceptical at first, but […]
What happened to Woon King Chai and his friends when they were arrested for observing the Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election campaign? Find out here!
Putting our journalistic skills to use, so you get to sound smart. If you’ve been receiving emails and messages from all kinds of companies all of a sudden telling you how important the safety of your personal data is to them, you are not alone. They were all doing it in order to comply with […]
Young Malaysians share their thoughts on corporal punishment and the effect it could possibly have on children. A PINCH here and a smack there – yes, that is how most of our parents deal with us when we misbehave. So imagine the nation’s surprise when a Malaysian couple was arrested in Sweden late last year […]