If you are truly serious about getting married to a Malaysian mail order brides’ service, you have to do some background checking first. A reputable agency should offer you with a guarantee. You have to see if they have any history of defrauding their clients. You have to also make sure...
In a poignant concluding chapter, Teo peels back the layers of a wound as she recollects the reactions to her work over the years. Responses ranged from those who are surprised that poverty exists in swanky Singapore, to those who trivialise the plight of the people she describes, or deny ...
Melaka is home to a sizeable population of Straits Chinese, also known by the Malay term Peranakan ("half caste") or the Straits Chinese phrase "Baba-Nonya". They were mostly wealthy traders who settled in Melaka, Penang and Singapore and married Malay women, the children following Chinese re...
Studying in China has broadened his horizon, brought him to a new level of performance, and encouraged him to keep going on. After getting his bachelor’s degree (学士学位), Toh started to teach Chinese bamboo flute in Malaysia and Singapore. However, his determination to improve his ...
QUESTION TIME | Nurul Izzah Anwar’s misgivings about Mahathir, aired in aninterviewshe gave to Singapore’sStraits Times,has been both condemned and praised for calling Dr Mahathir Mohamad a former dictator and a person who is very difficult to work with. ...
I completed my fellowship training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 2015. I have been honoured to do visiting fellowship/scholarship at Singapore General Hospital and Kyushu University Hospital, Japan during my fellowship training period. And I just pursued a hands-on fellowship in ESD, POEM, ...
Does anyone know why you can’t find potholes in Singapore roads? Has anyone heard about the story during the good old days when the old man LKY was on board. One fine day he was on the road and his car hit a pothole, next day someone’s head in the ...
“I’ve never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or a woman—that’s not the reputation I’ve had since I was in high school, for God’s sake.” The same day, at a conference of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, in Washington, D.C., Bidenjokedabout getting ...
these initiatives have disabused many reformers otherwise willing to accept administrative incorporation of hopes of genuine influence. Overall, there are fewer consolidated state-sponsored, extra-parliamentary MOPs in Malaysia than in Singapore or the Philippines, even despite the launch, post-publication...
Maintaining one’s work through economic downturns is complex, and when unemployment is rampant, getting work becomes even more challenging. One alternative way workers seek to sustain their lives during the pandemic is to engage in precarious employment, making the unconventional and gig labour market...