MCA President Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat recently announced that the government would review the selection criteria for Public Services Department (PSD) scholarships. He revealed in The Star news report that PSD scholarship recipients were selected based on four criteria: merit (20%), race (60%), Sabah and Sarawak citizens (10%), and students from underprivileged groups (10%). […]
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Remember this song by Russ Hamilton? What a lovely lullaby to sing to our little ones to get them to sleep! If you enjoy evergreens (think Russ Hamilton, Cliff Richard, Frankie Avalon, Johnny Tillotson, Ricky Nelson, etc) as well as inspirational and educational video clips, do check out fellow Malaysian Oh Teik Bin’s video-sharing website
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“Older adults are the fastest growing demographic on the Internet,” said Prof Vicki Hanson at a global World Wide Web conference held in Madrid recently. I’m not too sure if this is the case in Malaysia as reliable statistics are not available. What I do know is that there are still many seniors aged 60+
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The Small Stones, with Johnny’s elder brother Lawrence (far left). 12 hours of great non-stop music, from 2.00pm to 2.00am. That was what the organisers promised, and that was exactly what they delivered. (Click on the banner for a close-up view of the line-up.) I am talking about “A Tribute to Johnny” held yesterday at
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If you are suffering from a serious bout of bad-news fatigue like I am, it’s time to reach out for that medicine bottle for some comic relief! FLYING BACKWARDSTwo elderly gentlemen, who had been without sex for several years, decided they needed to visit a cat-house for some tail. When they arrived, the madam took
A cowardly act of violence against an elderly. (Photo: The Star) As a Johorean, I am aghast at the high crime rate in Johor. The latest incident was reported in the papers only this morning. A pregnant woman died after robbers pulled her off her motorcycle in Air Hitam, Johor. On April 22, an 80-year
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My mother will be 83 in October. Except for a couple of age-related problems, she is in relatively good health and physically independent. Still, a time will come when she will no longer be able to do things for herself. Would I be sufficiently equipped with the know-how to look after her? As her sole
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Thousands of Filipinos queueing up outside a mall during a job fair on May Day. (Reuters) MayDay! MayDay! This is the SOS distress cry that’s reverberating around the world – from North Africa which has an unemployment rate of 10.3% to Australia with 5.2%. This surely must be the longest labour pain on record –
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These much maligned porkies have now become Public Enemy #1. For the past week headlines around the world have been screaming SWINE FLU (now renamed Influenza A H1N1). At the moment it seems to me that the media is spreading more panic and pandemonium faster than the H1N1 virus is spreading. Pharmaceutical companies are seeing
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Malaysia’s new Deputy PM Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak There are 29 ministers and 40 deputy ministers in our new cabinet making a total of 69 MPs in the Malaysian Parliament. A look at their pictures (see previous post below) shows an overwhelming number are aged 50+. PM Dauk Seri
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