The power and perils of social media today
ON Monday, a 16-year-old Form 4 student leapt to her death after a poll she conducted on Instagram showed 69…
Browsing: Just another point of view
What a difference a year makes
JUST over a year ago, who would have thought that we could all see a new government at the reins…
Chandran Rutnam – the man who brought Hollywood to Sarawak!
I HAD my first introduction to feature film locations scouting in Sarawak 32 years ago in February 1987, when I…
The importance of family and why reunions matter
IT was Winston Churchill who said: “There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that…
That Easter, 30 years ago, when I became born again!
AS a young boy, I was raised in a very staunch Buddhist/Taoist family where grandpa Ong Kwan Hin was the…
Are we too spoilt for choice in our hawker food stalls and new eateries?
FOR the past few years, I have noticed the proliferation of many new food courts, hawker food stalls, and medium-…
Revealing Sarawak’s hidden beauty as new roads open up
SINCE the starting point of the Pan Borneo Highway at KM0 Kampung Telok Melano opened up a couple of months…
In praise of the slow food movement and local traditional cooking
I HAPPENED to chance across a Wikipedia post which said, “Slow Food is an organisation that promotes local food and traditional…