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1.8K[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. Unless you’re on a social media detox challenge, chances are you’re aware...
2.2KThere isn’t enough land to bury the dead in KL. Do we have to dig up old graves now?
One of the many questions about death that we would be curious to find out would be how our lives would end. Or where you’d wanna be laid to rest. In fact, some of us...
1.5KIn 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 from MCA in 1983 under suspicious circumstances, he later ended up in Singapore’s...
1.8KStun guns are illegal for most Malaysians, but it can still be bought at just RM10!
If you’ve seen that one Marvel movie Thor from 2011, you may remember that one scene where this lady just straight up used a stun gun on the god of thunder himself and sent him to a...
1.4KThere’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. These words are commonly known as the Bahasa Wicet and it may be...
2.1KThis guy on MACC’s panel started out his career as… an extra in P. Ramlee’s movie?!
[This article was originally published in SOSCILI. To read the original version in Malay, click here!] You might have heard that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) had recently appointed 12 people to be in...
1.6KMalaysia 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 one industry that’s affected the most is the tourism industry. Even now, when the...
2.1KIn the 1800s, Johor and Singapore implemented the… Kongkek System?
[This article is based on one written by SOSCILI. To read the article in BM, click here!] Here’s a quick pop quiz: what are the symbols of Johor? Well, the most obvious one would...
3.5KThe govt may ban foreign workers coming to M’sia… but what about those already here?
[UPDATE: 17 July 2020] We’re updating this article to correct a mistake made by this writer for attributing the Malay Mail instead of the original report from BERNAMA. We apologise for the mistake made in...
1.8KIn 1978, the govt took over Bank Rakyat – now some of its shareholders want it back
Gone are the days of your grandpa hoarding his life savings under his mattress, and your grandma keeping her petty cash between her bosom. With banks everywhere in Malaysia, it’s hard to think of a...
