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Starting April 1, the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination will be replaced with the all-new Pentaksiran Tingkatan 3 (PT3), affecting Form 3 students from this year onwards. Test Subjects Subjects like Bahasa Melayu and English Language would be implemented using written and oral tests, while Science and Mathematics will be assessed exclusively through written tests. […]
By SARENRAJ RAJENDRAN brats@thestar.com.my IF you have an idea you would like to see turn into a business but are unsure of how to go about it, chances are, you could become a startup. Startups are small companies working around an idea that could potentially be in demand in the future. These small-scale businesses initially […]
By LIM MAY LEE alltherage@thestar.com.my AUSTRALIAN pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer was born in December 2011, when college mates Luke Hemmings, Michael Clifford and Calum Hood began posting YouTube videos of themselves performing covers of hit songs. What seemed like a past time eventually became a passion. And before long, they were joined by […]
By CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my IN the middle of the hilly region around Kampung Genting Peres, surrounded by dense forest, lies a football pitch. It’s not much – there’s ironically not a single blade of grass on it, just sand – but it’s the only place where the young people of the village can gather to […]
Most girls get their boyfriends teddy bears; Timur Gabriel got hers a modelling agency.
By MELISSA ONG brats@thestar.com.my I was having a meal with a cousin when he was informed that the bus his sister was riding home in after a camp flipped in the middle of the road and his sister was no where to be found. My heart skipped a beat. My hands were shaking. I didn’t […]
By ANN-MARIE KHOR brats@thestar.com.my INNOVATIVE social enterprises in Malaysia – which are often overlooked or underrepresented in mainstream media – took centre stage in the British Council’s “Journalism for Social Good” video journalism competition. Speaking of social good, the competition also offered a three-day training workshop to all seven participating teams. Four lucky BRATs were […]
By VIVIENNE WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my HE is one of the most respected drivers in the world of Formula One. And as 2014 marks Jenson Button’s 14th year on the circuit, the 34-year-old McLaren-Mercedes driver still feels like it’s his first time whenever he gets behind the wheel of an F1 racecar, giving him goose bumps. Like […]
By VIVIENNE WONG alltherage@thestar.com.my TO think that The Grumpy Cyclist was almost called The Grumpy Barista is just unimaginable, because it wouldn’t explain its concept as a cafe for cyclists, and the baristas there are anything but grumpy! According to Alex Iskandar Liew, one of the founders of The Grumpy Cyclist, the cafe was inspired […]
LET’S be real – we’re not the biggest authorities on sports in the business. But this past week, with the 2014 Laureus World Sports Awards in full swing in Kuala Lumpur, it became clear to everyone that sports is way more than just a group of sweaty men chasing after a ball. Yes, we at […]