International
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2.2KIn 1915, British Malaya lost Singapore to a mutiny. So they got help from… the Japanese
When you think of Malaya in World War 1, you probably wouldn’t think it was a major part of our history. After...
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2.2KJAKIM says their transgender conversion camp is different from other countries. But how?
If you’ve spent enough time online, you may have come across several posts about things you can change in Malaysia. One of...
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2.0K6 unexpected things about mandatory quarantine, as told by Malaysian returnees
As you may have already known, there have been pictures circulating around the Internet on these persons under surveillance (PUS) who should be under mandatory home quarantine after returning from...
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3.0KIn 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...
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2.2KBosan at home? Here’s how you can hang out with David Beckham this weekend
Ever since the implementation of the Recovery Movement Control Order, some of us may have gone out and about to places like...
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2.1KMalaysia’s only the second country to remove its parliament’s speaker – Who’s the first?
As you have probably noticed, the uproar of the Covid-19 pandemic in Malaysia has kinda been dying down with the dwindling numbers...
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1.9K[UPDATE] Who is this angmoh whose viral video was featured by BERNAMA?
[UPDATE: 22/07/2020] We’re updating this article to include Dustin’s response to us. Updates can be found within the article in blue. ...
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1.6KIn the 80s, an MCA president was jailed in two countries – but may not have been guilty.
Tan Koon Swan, former MCA president, must have been one of the unluckiest Malaysian-Chinese politicians in history. Not only was he sacked...
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2.1KThere’s a proposal to amend the Dewan Bahasa Pustaka Act. Is this an end to Bahasa Wicet?
If you’ve spent enough time online, you may have seen (or used) words like ‘aq’, ‘xde’ and ‘ko’, among other short forms....
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1.7KMalaysia just suspended Pakistani pilots from flying in our country. Here’s why.
As we all know, the Covid-19 pandemic hasn’t been easy on practically everyone, tearing down the economy like Hurricane Katrina. But perhaps the...