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YOUNG people are learning about sex – but where are they getting proper information when it comes to the birds and the bees? Are they getting the oh-so-important “talk” from adults such as their parents and teachers or are they turning to other source of information? The Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) […]
Vegetarianism might seem like just another one of those diet fads to most of us, but in Malaysia, some young people are really getting into it – and very much for the right reasons. It’s not because they want to lose weight, and it’s not because PETA’s (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) tactics […]
ONE mother’s quest to help depressed teenagers find hope before they resort to suicide inspired our cover story last week on #depression. Dr. Florance Sinniah’s “Know the SIGN” campaign has been providing talks, depression screenings and volunteer counsellors to schools in Penang and Kedah; helping students realise they are not alone in feeling depressed or […]
By KEVIN TAN and PHYLLIS HO alltherage@thestar.com.my ONE fine day, Chee Yun Sam, a 22-year-old model, started getting a barrage of angry tweets and messages from his friends. Apparently, Chee had posted something rather racist on his Twitter account, and a lot of people weren’t taking too kindly to it. Only problem was – […]
Subscribe! youtube.com/RageOnlineTV On our YouTube channel this week, we have Malaysian drummer Arthur Kam, our Get Personal young personality of the week, performing one of his redonkulous solos exclusively for our cameras. The former child prodigy has performed with the likes of Jackie Cheung, Sadao Watanabe and Keiko Lee, not to mention pretty much everyone […]
Have you heard of the term “Phone Stacking”? Well, it literally means stacking phones on top of one another (not until it falls, of course), which is a practice to encourage people to interact with one another without the distractions of cell phones, or smartphones to be more specific. In our previous cover story, we […]
Cell-ing out By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my WHENEVER Lim Wei Ze, 18, and his friends from secondary school hang out, they have a simple rule – Disconnect to connect. Tired of their friends constantly tapping away on their smartphones instead of having actual conversations, they instituted the rule a few months ago so that they all […]
WE featured seven successful young individuals in our cover story last week, including CEOs and business owners, The enterpreneurs and high flyers shared with us how they found success, but what we wanted to know from our Tweeples was how young people today define success. So for last week’s #RAGEchat, it was all about #Success, […]
AHEAD of Mother’s Day last week, we interviewed women who had children before they were 25 for a story on young mothers. They talked about the challenges they faced in the early stages of motherhood as well as the ones they are still dealing with now. They discussed feeling disconnected from their peers, being left […]
HOUSE Officers, or doctors-in-training in Malaysia have been all over the news in the past few weeks. In response to the stories, our cover story last week touched on the challenges young doctors face. We spoke to doctors currently going through their housemanship period in Government hospitals, medical students and doctors who have gone through […]