Malaysia’s Fight Against Covid-19
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DISCLAIMER: This article is merely a short summary and by no means a comprehensive guide to Covid-19. Data was updated until March 20.AT THE TIME of wri...
Covid-19 Exclusives: Schools May Be Shut, but the Learning Continues
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“BEEN HOME-SCHOOLING the kids, they aren’t listening and I’m having my 10th meltdown! Hats off to all teachers for teaching our children with...
Covid-19 Exclusives: Journalists are Also Essential Workers During Times of Crisis
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EVER SINCE THE World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, Zaim Aiman Ibrahim, a Penang-based journalist for The Malaysian Insight, has...
Poor Households Bear the Economic Brunt of Covid-19
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THE COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world into unprecedented times of uncertainty and turmoil. As the global numbers of positive cases and deaths continue to...
Expanding the World of the Blind and Visually-impaired
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FOUNDED IN 1926 the St. Nicholas’ Home for the Blind (SNH) is a pioneer in educational services and training programmes for the Blind and Visually-impaire...
A Nurturing Environment for Differently-abled Students in Penang
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EDUCATION IS CONSIDERED by most of us to be a universal right. However, the ability to make use of opportunities, especially at the tertiary education level, do...
Taking Steady Steps towards Civic Engagement
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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT or civic participation refers to actions taken by individuals or groups to address issues of public concern.But how does one learn to be civi...
Becoming A Saner Person during the MCO
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ON JUNE 10 Malaysia entered the recovery phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO); and though the world has started to acclimatise to the “new normal&rdq...
Millennials Surviving the Quarantine
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MILLENNIALS ARE FINDING themselves under unusual circumstances these days, as they navigate the indelible changes that Covid-19 has introduced into their lives....
Providing Nourishment for the Frontliners
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AS EARLY AS February, pictures of doctors and nurses with tired faces, imprinted with the tight elastic bands of their face masks and shields began circulating...
One Man’s Food Waste Can be Another Man’s Meal
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UNCLE TEOH TAKES out his knife and cuts off the bottom end of the radish that has gone bad. He tears off the lettuce leaves that have browned and puts them all...
Women in the Informal Sector Hit Hard by the MCO
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NO DOUBT, businesses and employees in the non-essential sectors have suffered from significant income losses. But it is in the informal sector that workers have...