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By SATHESH RAJ and LYE MING HAN Photos by MUHAMMAD KHALID brats@thestar.com.my IN his opening remarks, Muhd Fikri Bakhri, chairman of the second International Eco-Schools Conference Malaysia, said: “Be naughty, as naughty as you can be.” Now that’s something the BRATs could definitely do. Three of us were there for the five-day conference in Kuala […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my Robert Swan holds the world record as the first person in history to have walked to the North and South Poles, and three lucky Malaysians are set to join him on one of his upcoming adventures. Come next year, Helena Erin, Paul Kho and Faisal Ariff will trek the icy […]
By VIVIENNE WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my Treat every setback as a comeback. Every time you fall, get back up and continue on.” That’s what 19-year-old Singaporean skateboarder, Farris Rahman always tells himself after he falls off his skateboard or fails to complete a routine. Farris is the first skateboarder from Singapore to be signed to Red Bull […]
By ROXANNE LOW brats@thestar.com.my THE word “power” in #PowerShiftMsia serves as a double entendre, representing not just our energy sources, but also the power of the people to address and mitigate climate change. The five-day #PowerShiftMsia event was part of the Global Power Shift (GPS) movement. The first phase of the movement started with a […]
Stories by CHRISTINE CHEAH, VIVIENNE WONG and JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my That was the last tweet by Indonesian copywriter, Mita Diran, 27, before she collapsed, slipped into a coma and passed away the following day. Although the official cause of death is still unknown, many believe her death was caused by a lethal combination […]
BY LOKE HOONG LIANG brats@thestar.com.my It’s the end of the year and we’re finally approaching Christmas, the season to be jolly. Unfortunately, the last few weeks have been flooded with news of natural disasters. Typhoon Haiyan which struck the Philippines, for one, took away so many lives and left its survivors with nothing much but […]
By CARLOS RUBEN DOURADO Photos by Valentina Tan brats@thestar.com.my Is it possible for the process of urban regeneration to not only take the past into consideration but also how it can interact with future communities? As time progresses, our city is transforming before our eyes, deprived areas are given a new breath of life which […]
By JONATHAN DASON brats@thestar.com.my WHEN I was young, I dreamt that I would help people when I grew up,” said Shayne Foo, 21 as he shared his life story at a home for underprivileged children in Petaling Jaya. Unfortunately, Foo said he would end up getting bullied a few years on. “How do you think […]
By NAJIHATUL AULAA JALIDAR PEOPLE who know me these days would probably be surprised to know I was bullied several times when I was a child and teenager. It wasn’t brutal – I wasn’t physically hurt except on a few occasions – but it wasn’t pleasant either. My first experience being bullied was when I […]