Author - jessie tan

Rapper Yung Raja opens cafe selling ‘world’s first’ thosai tacos made with mum’s decades-old recipe

Growing up, his mother's thosai was a breakfast staple for local rapper Yung Raja. Now, he's putting a new spin on the tradition with his new cafe The Maha Co, serving up what he calls the world's first 'thosai taco'. The cafe, which had its soft launch at the end of last year, marks the 26-year-old's...

Michelle Reis escapes death from life-threatening ailment

Instagram/michele_monique_reis Retired actress Michelle Reis has been discharged from hospital after being in intensive care for 48 hours. The 1990s Hong Kong star shared two photos from the hospital bed last Saturday (Jan 15) and wrote in her Instagram post that she had "narrowly escaped death". She later issued a statement with more details. In the early hours of...

China’s fan club crackdown a ‘turning point’ for multibillion-dollar industry prone to fraud and doxxing

China’s fan economy was estimated to be worth US$5.49 billion in 2019.South China Morning Post It all started with the milk. In May, Chinese fans of popular boy band talent show Youth With You were given the right to vote for contestants by scanning a QR code printed on the bottle cap of a sponsor’s product. The promotion...

Microsoft board to review sexual harassment, discrimination policies

Microsoft Corp will review the effectiveness of its sexual harassment and gender discrimination policies and practices in response to a shareholder proposal that passed at its latest annual meeting, the company's board said on Thursday (Jan 13). The review will produce a transparency report with results of any sexual harassment investigations in recent years against the...

Second alien moon identified is much like the first: Big and strange

An artist's rendering shows a moon with a diameter roughly 2.6 times that of Earth orbiting a large gas giant planet in another solar system located about 5,700 light years from our solar system, in an undated handout illustration. Scientists using what is called the transmit method have found evidence of the existence of this...

Indonesian investigators may need another year to probe Sriwijaya crash

Indonesian investigators may need another year to determine the cause of last year's crash of a Sriwijaya Air jet that killed all 62 people on board, according to an interim report released on Thursday (Jan 13). Under international standards, a final report would normally be issued within a year of the Jan 9, 2021 crash, but Indonesia's...

First person convicted under Hong Kong’s national security law drops appeal

Leaflets in support of Tong Ying-kit, the first person charged under a new national security law, are placed at a shopping mall near the High Court, in Hong Kong, China. July 30, 2021.Reuters The first person convicted under Hong Kong's national security law and jailed for nine years last July has dropped his decision to appeal,...

Politician Denies Logging is the Cause of a Wild Tiger Spotted Near School in Gua Musang

It’s only natural for wild animals like tigers to wander in their own habitat – the forests. However, questions may arise when they start to lurk outside the woods, in places where they are not meant to be around.  This leaves us wondering, are they looking for food that is possibly going scarce in the jungle,...

KJ: No Quarantine For Fully Vaccinated Travellers Who Were Recently Infected With Covid-19

Health Minister, Khairy Jamaluddin had just announced that travellers who are fully vaccinated but has a history of being infected with Covid-19 within 11-60 days DO NOT need to undergo quarantine when they arrive in Malaysia. Source: Kosmo However, they will be required to do an RTK test in front of the health officers at the international arrival doors...

Interview: Tom Hopper & Avan Jogia On Their Love For The “Resident Evil” Franchise & More

“Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City” is currently screening in Malaysian cinemas. As mentioned in our movie review, this version harkens back to Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich’s rendition of the film franchise rather than the original game’s creative roots. In this interview, Tom Hopper and Avan Jogia – who played the villainous Wesker and rookie...