Get Personal: Melora Chang
Meet the budding filmmaker striving to prevent bullying.
Living in the sound
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 […]
Red Hot Art
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 […]
Comebacks and disputes
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 […]
Star search
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 […]
Get personal: Danny Thong
About five years ago, Danny Thong was going through the daily grind of a nine-to-five job in Kuala Lumpur city, working in a bank.
Leaving an [i]MPACT
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 […]
Kickin’ it!
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 […]
Nam the man
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 […]
Freestyle ventures
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, […]
BRATs in Penang!
THE final BRATs workshop of the year will be held on August 14-17, and you can still be a part of it! This time, we’ll be taking the 40 successful applicants (aged 16-19) for awesome field assignments all around Penang. And with the help of editors, journalists, photographers and videographers from The Star, you will […]
Looking east
By TAKAMASA SAKURAI TSUBASA Maeda, 25, and her younger sister Mamu, 20, yearned to be involved in the fashion industry from a young age. Now, the sisters are pioneers in importing Japanese trends overseas. Together, they operate Chu Chu, a boutique selling Lolita-style clothing they design at a shopping mall in Bangkok. Mamu has lived […]
Get Personal: Kelly Sashimi
We know balloons are decorative items used to colour up occasions. To many people, they represent happiness.
China’s lost generation
By LARA FARRAR FOR two days, Rocky had been playing video games in the tiny apartment he shares with three other men in Shanghai, a city of 23 million. He left only once, to buy food. The games “help me relax”, he said. “It helps me escape. I feel so tired.” In June, the 32-year-old […]
Girl talk
By SHARMILA NAIR alltherage@thestar.com.my YES, the #royalbaby is here and the whole world is going crazy over the latest addition to the British royal family. Anyway, royal baby or not, nothing is going to stop the celebrities from clamouring for their spot in the limelight and here’s what some of the famous ladies have been […]