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By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my THERE is this tendency in Malaysia to celebrate our countrymen and women – among them actor-producer Datuk Michelle Yeoh and designer Datuk Jimmy Choo – who have achieved tremendous success overseas. Heck, we also love to claim successful Malaysian-linked personalities as our own such as Malaysian-born Guy Sebastian, the first Australian […]
Peter Ng is not your average jock. The 23-year-old lad is currently juggling life as a national basketball player and coach, and an undergraduate student at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Bangi, Selangor.
IN a move to encourage healthy living and fitness, the Health Ministry recently announced that they will be introducing a ‘no lift day’ in the ministry’s complexes, hospitals and health departments after the fasting month. On that particular day, which will be held on a weekly basis, everyone will have to take the stairs – […]
By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my TODAY marks the first day of the most anticipated sporting event of the year – the London 2012 Olympics. All the athletes and officials would have already been in London for the days leading up to the event – with their smartphones, tablet devices and laptops in tow. Yup, London 2012 […]
One of the BRATs writes about her experience at Hamburg’s famous Schlagermove parade. By ROXANNE LOW PAU-LING alltherage@thestar.com.my EVERY July, people from all over the world look forward to the famous Schlagermove parade in Hamburg, Germany. The celebration started with 50,000 visitors during its first year in 1997, but that number is dwarfed by the […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WE’VE all heard of our top Olympians like Datuk Lee Chong Wei and Pandelela Rinong, but there are also another 28 Malaysian athletes there in London who’re all just as eager to do us proud. Many of them are young athletes who will be at the games for the very first […]
By TRECIA TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my IN 2009, South Korean girl group Kara inadvertently created a huge craze over what came to be known as the “butt dance”, an over-the-top dance move choreographed for their most popular single to date, Mister. For many K-pop fans, it was the dance move that made the song a hit, as […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my ELECTRO-POP artiste Darren Ashley started composing music at the age of 12. He completed his primary and secondary education in Thailand, and he believes those years have helped develop his unique taste in music. Ashley was exposed to different kinds of music at his schools where he befriended people from all […]
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my IF YOU’RE one of those people who likes to brag about your car’s fuel efficiency, make sure you don’t get into that conversation with the students from Dhurakij Pundit University, Thailand who were at the Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2012 competition. Why? Because they had just found a way to […]
After our #RAGEchat made the news on Wednesday, revealing that most young people were actually against the Education Ministry’s plan to allow handphones in schools, several teachers tweeted us on the issue as well. Most of them seemed equally opposed to the idea, as they believed it would cause unnecessary distractions, more disciplinary issues […]
Learning about river By THAM YING HUI alltherage@thestar.com.my Rivers are the veins of the Earth, a life source for all living beings. Our rivers provide for us, their functions branching out in countless ways as our civilisations developed, yet most of us are taking rivers for granted, even when we know they are not […]
By ANGELIN YEOH alltherage@thestar.com.my THINK of a chemical engineer and the last thing that comes to your mind is probably “stylish”. But at the recent Uniqlooks Malaysia Grand Finale at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre, Saiful Hifzudeen was the most stylish of them all. Saiful is the grand prize winner in the male category […]
We spoke to an incredibly well-mannered Justin Bieber ahead of his performance at MTV World Stage.
Two cosplayers will be representing Malaysia at the World Cosplay Summit in Japan.
By ANGELIN YEOH alltherage@thestar.com.my IT’S HARD to believe that Muhammad Faiz Effendi is only 22 years old, as the lad has already set his sights on improving the lives of the underserved in Malaysia through a unique social venture. Faiz led team X-Change from Universiti Tun Abdul Razak to emerge second-runner up in the third […]