Posts By Nicole Ng
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1CultureAmong the deities on this small Hindu temple in Perak stands a statue of… a Mat Salleh?
Regardless of whether you’re religious, atheist, or agnostic, myths and stories about gods and deities of various religions have always been rather...
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130HealthMeet ‘Kak Bomoh’, the nurse who built Malaysia’s first home for HIV-positive sex workers
What are some of the things you’ll think about off the top of your head at the thought of something like human...
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615BusinessHere’s how MARA allegedly laundered RM73 million using Australia and a cake shop
When you take a glimpse at the government agencies we have in Malaysia, you’ll find that we really have a thing for acronyms, like...
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436AutomotiveMahathir’s Proton Perdana was found abandoned in the UK. Here’s how it got there.
Recently, you may have caught wind of a video uploaded by Lost Adventurers, where they can be seen exploring a dilapidated garage in...
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526BusinessGenting HK’s currently RM8.4bil in debt and can’t repay it. Is Genting gonna collapse?
One can describe the Covid-19 pandemic that’s caught the world by surprise in numerous ways. You can call it a ‘wake-up call‘....
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8.0KBusinessThe story of an Interpol fugitive from Indonesia who may have a role in the 1MDB scandal
As humans, we’re naturally attracted to scandals and political drama, with these topics becoming dinnertime conversations and the like. For example, Malaysia’s...
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1.6KCultureThe govt is proposing a new watchdog for PDRM, even tho we already have one. But why?
If anything, the #BlackLivesMatter phenomenon has brought to the surface a serious conversation about police brutality, and that includes Malaysia. There have been...
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10.1KCultureThe story of Dr Noor Hisham – the man lauded as a ‘national hero’, and now ‘Tan Sri’
[UPDATE: 17/08/2020] We’re updating this article to include how the Health Ministry’s Director-General, Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah was recently awarded with the title...
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1.5KMAT-MATIKHow many times have each of our current MPs lompat party? We check all 222 of them
2020 has proven to be a pretty wild year – for the whole world, and especially for Malaysians. To start with, just...
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2.8KCultureIn 1786, Francis Light didn’t actually take control of Penang. He ‘rented’ it from Kedah.
Most of the time, we think we know everything about our country’s history, what with five years of studying our Sejarah textbooks...
