Growing pains of oil palm smallholders
ABOUT 65,000 smallholders across the country are feeling the impact of a foreign labour shortage. Most smallholder...
Tales from a chicken farm
MALAYSIANS from all income groups are feeling the effects of inflation, which is pushing the prices of food up. That, a...
Tens of thousands dance at Bon Odori
ABOUT 35,000 visitors thronged the Japanese Bon Odori festival in Shah Alam last night, a month after the event cam...
In search of bamboo for lemang
LEMANG is a traditional Malay food that is loved by all communities. The bamboo is used to cook lemang. For...
No chickening out for ayam ratu owners at rooster show
GENG Peminat Ayam Ratu Selangor attracted 86 ayam ratu (rooster show) fans from across the state in the Pertandingan Kes...
Sceptical parents delay kids’ Covid jab appointments
MANY parents are still sceptical about vaccinating their children against Covid-19 and have opted to postpone the vaccin...
More than 14,000 flood victims seeking shelter at relief centres
MORE than 14,000 flood victims have sought shelter at relief centres, with Pahang recording the highest number of e...
River shares its bounty with Nenek Tina
THE day is overcast but that will not stop Nenek Tina from going out to hunt for fish and shellfish in Su...
Leaving no one behind
CAMERON Highlands is one of Malaysia’s most important places for food. Workers on the farms are a mixture of migrants an...
They sell pen shells by the seashore
IT was noon at Pantai Siring in Malacca. Four men were gathered at the fishermen’s jetty waiting for low tide...
Business is booming for the coffin maker
Mohd Fozailah Hussain, a coffin maker in Kampung Sungai Sireh, Klang, Selangor, has seen orders more than...
Youth call for PM’s resignation at #Lawan protest
ROADS around Dataran Merdeka in the city centre were sealed off this morning ahead of a youth-led protest demanding Prim...
Locked down in a tiny room with an empty fridge
A MINI refrigerator stood open and bare in the tiny room. Roughly 8m by 8m in size, the room above a shophouse in C...
Hope blooms for flower growers of Cameron Highlands
FLOWER growers in Cameron Highlands are relieved to learn they are allowed to keep their farms open durin...
Veronica Lim Yi Hui