Senior citizens getting ready for an early morning exercise session at Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur Remember those proverbs that our primary school English teacher used to drum into us? “Prevention is better than cure”, “A stitch in time saves nine”, and “Penny wise, Pound foolish”? Yet how many of us pay heed to these cautionary […]
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Steve Jobs 1955-2011 Design: Jonathan Mak, 19, of HK Steve Jobs, visionary extraordinaire, has left, leaving behind his legions of fans to mourn his passing on Wednesday 5 Oct 2011. The media will be going into overdrive fleshing out all the details and stories of this intensely private man whom US President Obama calls ‘one of
Interested? Sign up now. It’s FREE! Technological advances have made it possible for universities to deliver online courses to almost anyone anywhere in the world. Nothing new, but what is new is top universities like Harvard, MIT, Oxford and Stanford are now jumping on the bandwagon. These ivy league institutions are offering some of their
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I read a most touching story in the papers yesterday. Written by Dr Lee Wei Ling, it is a story about eternal love, of what it is like for a husband to lose a dearly beloved wife, of a man having to face life without his kindred spirit. It’s a very personal story made very
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It’s disappointing to say the least that this day – International Day of Older Persons – will pass as in previous years, without any mention. No press reports, no celebratory events, no governmental initiatives to mark the significance of this day in Malaysia. Elsewhere across the globe, from New Zealand to Canada, from Pakistan to
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At long last, the government has agreed to raise the retirement age. But it will take many more months of waiting before we can pop the champagne bottle. The new retirement age has yet to be fixed, and the Bill has yet to be debated in Parliament. Still, it’s heartening news. However, not everyone is
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For those who drive, it’s a daily grind on the city roads. My answer is YES. But the question I am more often asked is “HOW can you do without a car!” Indeed, coming from my friends, it’s not even a question, but rather, an incredulous exclamation. I gave up driving in 1998. At
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CEO of EPF, Tan Sri Azlan Zainol giving the keynote address at the conference. (Pic: The Star) I would like to share some of the messages I took home from the 2011 Conference on Private Pension and Healthcare which concluded yesterday. From Tan Sri Azlan’s speech: 7% of the population (almost 2m) is aged 60
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The Straits Times 24 Sept. (Click on image to enlarge.) Familiar? If you are retired, and thinking of applying for a credit card, forget it. Retirees and pensioners in Singapore have long complained that banks practise age discrimination when it comes to approving credit card applications. Whenever a complaint like this surfaces in the print
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In this day and age, and with the Internet, what’s the point of censoring anything? One of the censored pictures in full colour (and spread) from The New York Times. It’s annoying, and that’s putting it mildly, to open your morning subscriber’s copy of the International Herald Tribune and find the black-marker zealots have been busy at work
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