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Chilling at Churpout

IAN YEE and CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my  IT was an event that was trending on Twitter by around noon – even before the real party had started. That should give you an idea of what #ChurpOut2013 was all about. ChurpOut is an annual festival organised by social media community ChurpChurp that brings together popular social media […]

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Bullies at work

By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my IF you think bullying is something that only happens when you’re in school, you’re deluded. From verbally abusive bosses to sexually inappropriate colleagues, bullying is something that we could have to face up to throughout our working lives. While workplace bullying might be a grey area at times (is it bullying […]

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Get Personal: Nadine Ann Thomas

Miss Universe Malaysia 2010, Nadine Ann Thomas recalls her days of being bullied, which was the main reason why shes supporting R.AGE Against Bullying to help put an end to bullying everywhere.

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The fantastic 48

By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my AS far as popular music is concerned, the “manufactured model” of idol groups has prove to be pretty successful. And that’s why Yasushi Akimoto, creator of award-winning girl group AKB48 from Akihabara, Japan, has brought the franchise to Indonesia. The result is JKT48 – Indonesia’s first idol group. The name is […]

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New horizon

By JAYDEE LOK alltherage@thestar.com.my HOURS before they blew everyone’s minds at the Rock4way finale, the boys of British metalcore band Bring Me The Horizon confessed that they didn’t know much about Malaysia. “I’m not very good at geography so I don’t even know where we are,” joked frontman Oliver Sykes, 27, during an interview last […]

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BRATS Against Bullying

The teen journalists from the BRATs programme speak up on the reality of bullying among young people in Malaysia today. ““The most treacherous form of bullying is the kind you can’t see. It’s not violent, but it has the ability to shatter a person just as powerfully. It is the silent yet loud social disapproval […]

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Monsters against bullying

    THE Monster High doll range, with ghoulish characters designed to look like the offspring of monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein, isn’t exactly what most people would imagine kids would want to own. But in just three years since its launch, Monster High became the world’s number two doll brand, right behind its antithesis […]

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Singing against bullying

By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WHEN local R&B star Liang read the statistics from the R.AGE Against Bullying campaign survey earlier this year, it was such a shock that his creative instincts immediately told him he had to do something. “If eight out of ten teenagers in Malaysia have been bullied (according to statistics), that means […]

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Bratspeak

By DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my TEENAGERS on the Internet can be monsters, and I know this from reading my school juniors’ Ask.fm pages. It’s like my current guilty pleasure – it satisfies my hunger for drama, as much as it pains me to read those ridiculously awful comments being thrown around. But hey, nosing around is […]

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R.AGE Against Bullying – Celeb Stories

BEING a victim of bullying can be one of the loneliest, most debilitating experiences. But the truth is, it doesn’t have to be that way. Over 80% of Malaysian teenagers have been bullied before, and while many are unfortunately scarred for life because of those experiences, there are also those who managed to find hope […]

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