Get Personal: Vincent Siow
Vincent Siow proves that you can still achieve your dreams, even though you have a full-time job.
Save our rainforests
By CASSANDRA YEOH brats@thestar.com.my TURN on the tap and the water flows out. Switch on the electricity and there is light. Often times, we use natural resources to help ease our daily lives but have we ever stopped to think about what is happening behind the scene? With global warming, erratic weather conditions and other […]
Sparing the rod
Guess what? It doesn’t spoil the child… THERE’S been a photo circulating the Internet, which seems to be a memo from the Ministry of Education to teachers informing them what kinds of punishments they are not allowed to mete out to students. Now for a lot of people, especially those from older generations, the list […]
Bijak Pandai: 2014 Winter Olympics
Putting our journalistic skills to use, so you get to sound smart. The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics was officially launched by Russian president Vladimir Putin two weeks ago. It is the first Winter Olympics in Russia, and the first games since the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow (back in the old Soviet Union, which dissolved […]
Engineering a better world
By ANN-MARIE KHOR brats@thestar.com.my Photos by DAROLD WONG MAKE no mistake: Latifah Hani Hamzah may have played the violin in a recital benefiting Engineers Without Borders Malaysia (EWBM), but she is certainly not playing second fiddle in the non-government volunteer organisation. Latifah, a subsea engineer in an oil and gas company, plays an instrumental part […]
High on hoaxes
THE beauty of the Internet is that it is a medium that’s open to everyone, for them to post everything from text to pictures to video. But it’s also becoming one of the biggest problems with the digital sphere. Can we believe anything we read or see on the Internet at all these days? Can […]
Get Personal: Chan Su Ling
Don’t let Chan Su Ling’s petite and laid-back personality fool you. She’s capable of breaking a man’s arm – if she has to. Find out why here!