Painting Motion Pictures
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THE MEANDERING RIVER to the left of the sprawling countryside in the painting of actress Umie Aida references Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous portrait, t...
Saving SMEs is Key to Economic Recovery
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TO FLATTEN THE recession curve, and to save SMEs and preserve jobs, the organisation Research for Social Advancement (REFSA) convened policy experts and industr...
Youth Unemployment Expected to Worsen
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SOME ECONOMISTS BELIEVE that the ongoing economic crisis set off by the Covid-19 pandemic can rival the 1929 Great Depression. In Malaysia the national unemploy...
Students Make Do in the School of Covid-19
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MALAYSIA’S EDUCATION SECTOR is embracing e-learning, but this adoption also brings to the fore the nation’s entrenched socioeconomic divide. Online...
Migrant Workers Face an Ever More Challenging Present, and an Ever More Uncertain Future
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THE MONTH OF May witnessed a string of raids targeting migrant workers in specific areas around KL. The actions took place, almost in catch-up mode, to ring-fen...
Covid-19 in Numbers
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WITHIN ASEAN, the top six countries for confirmed Covid-19 cases are Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei. Compared to the other...
Getting Back on Our Feet, and with Back Held Straight
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DISASTERS – natural or manmade – tend to affect a limited geographical area.A typhoon cutting across the Philippines, like Typhoon Vongfong in May...
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...
Volunteering is the Heart at Work
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MEET 24-YEAR-OLD law student Chin How Zet. Since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO), he has been assisting the needy and the underprivileged in his c...
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...
