Inside the mask factory
DAMANYU is a mask manufacturer that employs only locals, in Semenyih, Selangor. The factory produces three-ply med...
Treated like cattle
THE room is narrow and, as described by Human Resources Minister M. Saravanan, like a buffalo cage, dirty and smelly. Th...
EMCO at Klang’s Top Glove workers’ hostels
TOP Glove’s workers’ dormitory in Klang has come under lockdown effective today till November 30. With the enhanc...
EMCO at Plaza Hentian Kajang
THE Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) will be implemented at Sungai Emas Flats, Jalan Emas 31 and Jalan Emas 3...
River pollution costs Selangor cockle farmers their livelihood
RIVER pollution in the west coast of Selangor has affected the livelihoods of fishermen, especially cockle farmers, in K...
Klang Valley gets all hot and bothered
MORE than 1.2 million households and business premises in the Klang Valley are without water supply...
Malaysia reopens under RMCO
THE country is under the recovery movement-control order (RMCO) until August 31, and with it, restrictions are further r...
Migrant workers dealing with MCO
NOT far from a construction site, five containers sit under a highway and serve as ‘home’ to migrant workers. A brace o...
Making of Covid-19 waste
THE challenges of Covid-19 go far beyond testing, quarantining and treating people in a medical system on a major scale....
This land is my land
THE Orang Asli in Kuala Langat, Selangor, are up in arms over the Selangor government’s plans to degazette 930ha o...
No challenge too great for OKU
AS at March 2017, there were more than 420,200 people with disabilities (OKU) registered with the Social Welfare Departm...
Hundreds march in KL to highlight climate crisis
MORE than 300 people, including children, took to the streets of Kuala Lumpur yesterday to “strike” against climate...
Sarong ‘train’ makes way through KL
IN conjunction with Malaysia Day, thousands of Malaysians yesterday wore sarong and other traditional attire in support...
Mums struggling to survive in Chow Kit
HARI Raya is only two days away. On Jalan Chow Kit, city folk are swarming the Ramadan bazaar there as they make their f...
Esther Sinirisan Chong