Education
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3.9KOMG, SPM is so secretive, it’s even filed under OSA… but why?
Ah, it’s the SPM season again and students may feel pressured to do their best to make their parents proud of them. This...
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392Should Malaysia abolish the death penalty, even for baby rapist-killers? Here are 5 things we learned from other countries
Recently the gomen has announced a moratorium on the death penalty and are currently looking at removing it altogether: ”All death penalty will...
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2.6KWe fact check 4 things Malaysians got wrong about Budget 2019
So the big news over the week is probably the announcement of none other than Budget 2019. It’s a pretty major thing,...
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3.1KDespite too many medical graduates, Malaysia is seriously lacking specialist doctors… why?
The Health Ministry wants to do a lot of things, like giving every Malaysian access to quality healthcare, upgrading both medical facilities...
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882Malaysia has lost MISERABLY in its war against drugs. Here’s the surprising reason why.
Like water shortages and 6% service taxes, Malaysia’s drug problem can’t seem to go away. Despite having some of the strictest laws on...
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9281214 awesome newspaper headlines from August 1957 (that you never saw in your Sejarah books)
[Ed’s note: This article was originally published in August 2014] When we made a trip to the National Library, one thing...
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752Vocational education brought much success to Germany… so why isn’t it working for Malaysia?
Low pay. Dirty work. No prestige. Uneducated. Not interesting. Useless. These are some of the perceived characteristics associated with vocational students in Malaysia....
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8816 secret reasons Malaysian graduates chose to study in the UK (that they didn’t tell their parents!)
So we all definitely know someone who has studied in the UK, or we are that someone. But with the UK aaallll...
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2.5K1 in 5 Malaysian Chinese school kids aren’t even Chinese. We find out why
[Ed’s note: This article was originally written in March 2018] Vernacular schools have sparked debate from some Malaysians, calling for them...
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1.3K3 badass protests organised by Malaysian university students in the 1970s
[This article was originally written in BM. Click here to read it.] For those who have studied in universities, you would’ve agreed that...