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Menu Rahmah offers RM5 meals to ease living costs for B40 Malaysians. While it helps families access nutritious food, rising costs threaten its sustainability. A proposed app could track impact and support vendors, ensuring no one is left behind.

Budget 2024, themed "Economic Reform, Empowering People", charts Malaysia’s largest-ever fiscal plan at RM393.8bil. It emphasises fiscal consolidation, targeted subsidies, revenue diversification, and growth through human capital, digitalisation and SME support.

A survey conducted by the Ministry of Health in Malaysia shows that the national prevalence of depression in Malaysian adults is 2.3%—this translates to about half a million people. Men are generally less likely to seek help compared to women, and tend less to talk about their emotional distress.

What I discovered is that traditional performing arts in Malaysia offer more than just music, dance, intricate costumes and kenduri (ritual offerings), but also poetry—or rather “spoken poetry” in the form of doa, mantra, incantations and jampi.

IN THE ANNALS of modern Penang are a number of exceptional legacies left behind by the late Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu, such as the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Industrial...

What happens when a mother who cannot cook becomes a grandmother? What culinary heritage is there to pass down to the next generation?