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By KEVIN TAN and CHRISTINE CHEAH alltherage@thestar.com.my You tweet, you eat – that was the basic concept behind last week’s Nuffnang FoodFest. Instead of paying for your food from one of the many vendors at the event, all you have to do is tweet about the vendor through a special mobile app (which you can […]
The low average starting pay of fresh graduates, increasing house prices and rising cost of living are issues we at R.AGE have written about quite a bit over the years. It really is nothing new. So why is it that Gen-Y kids in Malaysia are constantly getting flak for having it too easy? In […]
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my EVERY Friday, I like to take a few hours to do what we here at R.AGE call #RAGEchat, where we basically ask our followers on Twitter what they think about our stories. After a long hard week of interviews, photoshoots, research, writing and getting screamed at for not submitting our pages […]
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 […]
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 […]
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my IT IS the end of the year again, and that means another 31.5 million seconds have passed us by. If those seconds were precious moments to treasure, how would you rate your 2012? Good, bad or you can’t remember? Thanks to the Internet, our societal memory is improving. Archiving the history […]
By NIKI CHEONG alltherage@thestar.com.my A COUPLE of weeks ago, I was informed that my friend – Paul (not his real name) – in London was recently diagnosed with HIV. The person who told me, however, did not personally know Paul, but had read the news on his Twitter feed instead. This led to a long […]
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 […]