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Hurrah! The nation’s premier inter-school cheerleading competition is back. CALLING all cheerleaders out there. Bring out the pompoms and get ready to cheer your hearts out as Cheer 2013 is here. Presented by MARIGOLD HL Milk with main sponsor Silkygirl and co-sponsor Sugus, Cheer 2013 was launched this week, and the national cheerleading competition definitely […]
WHAT does it take to start a project or an organisation that could benefit a social cause – be it via a social enterprise, a social project or even an NGO? Here are some tips and advice from Tandem Fund Chief Operating officer Kal Joffres and Yayasan Chow Kit founder Dr Hartini Zainudin, two social […]
If you are an anime enthusiast and have watched shows like Macross Frontier, Shangri La, or Accel World you would definitely recognise May Nakabayashi – or her voice at least.
ENGINEERS Without Borders (EWB) is a world-wide NGO in various countries that adopts engineering solutions to meet the needs of developmental work. EWB Canada, upon realising the importance of acknowledging failures, publishes an annual Failure Report citing their biggest failure projects to let others learn from their mistakes. In a TEDx talk in 2011, one […]
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my WHEN she was 21, Pushpa Basnet made it her life’s mission to ensure that no child should have to live behind bars in her native Nepal. The state of poverty in Nepal means that parents who are imprisoned are left with two options – to bring their children along to jail, […]
By Christine Cheah WHAT qualifications does my Member of Parliament have? Where did he/she work before? Who is my state assemblyperson (Adun)? If those are some of the questions you have, UndiMsia! has the answers for you. #MyMP is a project started by UndiMsia! in collaboration with the Sinar Project, and it aims to compile […]
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my IT was reported last month that among the 13.34 million Malaysians currently registered as voters, 2.3 million are new to the list, and most of them are young people. Great news, of course. The youth are taking the future of their country into their own hands, exercising their civic duty and […]
What started out as a hobby for young local mountain biker Aaron Chan is now his biggest pride and passion.
By KEVIN TAN and CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my Empty spaces. Chairs. Daisies. Those were some of the things Kiwi Phoebe Ratcliff Reid saw at the memorial site of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand. Just from these three concepts, Malaysian Kathryn Lagrosa Rao and Reid, both 21, designed four elegant and fabulous outfits to win […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my TIRED of bring grossed out by all the iffy lorong belakang (back alleys) she sees in Malaysian neighbourhoods, architect Foo Hui Ping, 31, came up with a simple yet brilliant campaign to get people to reclaim these communal spaces. It promptly won her RM100,000. Foo’s “Our Lost Space” campaign emerged as […]