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By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my HE’S cute, she’s sweet and they both make the girls go gaga – but that’s not the main point. The fact that they produce good music is what’s important. Jason Chen, 24, and Clara Chung (better known as Clara C), 25, are YouTube stars who regularly get over 100,000 views on […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my IT’S not every day you get a Malaysian featured on CNN, NBC, Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post, but that’s exactly what artist-architect Hong Yi, aka Red, has done. Hong’s incredible works of art are “painted” without a brush, like her potrait of Datuk Lee Chong Wei made completely of shuttlecock […]
By NATASHA IMAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WITH a surge of music video releases and comebacks from artistes that have been on hiatus, the K-pop industry is currently packed with artistes waiting to wow their fans once again. On the other hand, breaking news of scandals and legal cases have also been flooding in as we head into […]
If you can sing and have always wanted to claim your spot in the limelight, then you’re exactly the person we need. R.AGE and Follow Me Sence are looking for the next musical sensation and if you think you have what it takes to become a star, then Rising Star is definitely the competition for […]
By TAN JEN LI, LEE JIA JENE and TAM XUEH WEI Photos by TAN JEN LI brats@thestar.com.my After their successful run last year, the United Kingdom and Eire Council for Malaysian Students (UKEC) hosted their second [i]MPACT event at Publika in Solaris Dutamas, KL last weekend. The movement was back to once again inspire youths […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my TWO years ago, freestyle football enthusiasts Ariff Karim, 21, and Mohd Zaid, 23, met at a freestyle football event in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur. They discovered that they worked well together, fast became friends and even came up with original tricks together. Freestyle football, simply put, is an art of expressing […]
AS a professional freestyle footballer, Irishman Hoai-Nam Nguyen, 33, has travelled the world performing his amazing repertoire of football tricks and skills. Starting out as a street performer in Dublin over a decade ago, freestyle football was just something “Nam The Man” did because it happened to earn him more money than waiting tables at […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WHEN four passionate Malaysian freestyle footballers heard about the Vietnam Freestyle Football Championships (VFFC), which happened in May. they saw an opportunity and signed up right away. Organised by Asian Freestyle Football Federation (AF3), the VFFC is an open competition for freestylers all across Asia. Airi Azni, 17, Ariff Karim, 21, […]