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Last Friday was a day for celebrating women. In conjunction with International Women’s Day, the Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) initiated the One Million Men. One Million Promises campaign, asking men to tweet a pledge of action in support of women. R.AGE joined in the International Women’s Day tweetathon to discuss how we perceive women. […]
A photo branding a 13-year-old from Malacca as a rapist went viral last week, complete with the boy’s full name, MyKad number and home address. Thousands upon thousands of bloggers and Facebook users shared the photo even before the incident was verified, and most of them took no effort to conceal the boy’s face or […]
We don’t often use personality pieces as our cover stories, but last week was one of those rare occasions. Mohd Hafiz, 26, born deaf and with cerebral palsy, overcame the odds to graduate with a degree in software engineering a few weeks ago. And he didn’t just graduate – he got a perfect 4.0 GPA […]
IS blogging becoming a thing of the past, or shall we say, so 2012? In our previous cover story, R.AGE touched on the subject of blogging, and what the future has in stall for the medium – if it has a future at all. With social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, anyone can post […]
So, the world didn’t come to an end after all (just as we thought). Last week, we asked our readers to tell us some of the things they regret not doing in their lifetime (assuming that the world was going to go kablooey back then), and threw them a challenge – to fulfill their goals […]
IN our cover story last week, we highlighted the challenges former residents of shelter homes face when trying to make it on their own. After “graduating” from an orphanage in Kuantan, Pahang at 18, Azrul worked at a fast food restaurant to support himself. Determined to make a better life for himself, he saved money […]
LAST Friday we spoke about the #iwasbullied campaign on our Red FM radio show, R.AGE On Red. We had comedian Phoon Chi Ho join the show, sharing his own “#iwasbullied” experience and how he managed to cope with it. One of our colleagues, StarMetro journalist Oh Ing Yeen, was also on the show, talking about […]
ACCORDING to Rumah Solehah (a home for women and children living with HIV) project coordinator Fathiiah Hamzah, ignorance on HIV and AIDS-related issues is still prevalent among young people. The statistics released by the Malaysian AIDS Council’s Red Ribbon Youth Club shows that for every four cases of new HIV infection in 2011, one was […]
By ANGELYN HO alltherage@thestar.com.my ALMOST all of us have experienced love and “romantic” relationship during adolescence. It is part of growing up and experiencing life, but romance and courtship aside, teenage love is not as simple and innocent as many people believe. Teens have expressed their difficulties in making tough decisions in relationships; whether to […]
IN conjunction with Universal Children’s Day this year, R.AGE together with UNICEF Malaysia and Childline Malaysia moderated special #RAGEchat sessions (on Friday and Sunday) that covered issues pertaining to youths, namely teen love and relationship pressures. Here’s what the Tweeples had to say: What do you think being in a relationship is really about? @Nurul_Aiiin: […]