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Good and bad in “chasing A’s” in SPM

By LEE ZHI WEI

I was delighted when theCICAK asked me to express my opinion about students “chasing A’s” and taking more and more subjects for the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia exam (SPM), which was recently highlighted in the newspapers. It was very refreshing because for once, since I received my SPM results, I was asked something […]

Why journalists act like chickens

By MINDY McADAMS
Although Malaysia is a small country (about 26.6 million people, or less than 10 percent the population of the U.S.), its press and broadcast policies are worthy of study. Take the recent government edict issued to a dozen mainstream newspapers and five television stations telling them to ignore any and all online information […]

Fook in the kitchen

By WILSON C
Cooking oils can be so kinky these days.

Comprende, can or not?

By FLORENTYNA LEOW
Raise your hands if you:
a) are born-and-bred Malaysian, but
b) don’t speak like your average Malaysian (or for that matter, any character from Phua Chu Kang), even if you went to a local school
c) cringe and writhe in agony whenever you hear people pronounce things wrongly
I had my hands up all this time. […]

Getting 18A’s for SPM is easy!

By ANITA TAHIR
It’s been more than a week since the Malaysia Higher School Certificate (SPM) results were released by the education ministry. Even though it’s been 13 years since I sat for the exam, this topic never fails to intrigue me.
Recently, too many students have been getting A’s for SPM. It’s ridiculous. Ever since Nur […]

We’re not staying home and making babies

By POH SI TENG
There is a song from the classic musical The Sound of Music that reinforces sexual stereotypes. And it used to be one of my favorites.
The socially constructed gender roles in the song sung by two lovers in Salzburg, Austria, may have been appropriate for audiences in the 1960s, but it cannot and […]

Dare to document: Calling for submissions

By MARC VAGHT

The Freedom Film Fest was inspired by a Malaysian named Justin Louis. He was the first co-ordinator of Pusat Komunikasi Malaysia (KOMAS), an organisation that promotes human rights issues through creative and interactive storytelling.
In December 1994, a group of young activists went to Ulu Baram, Sarawak, to investigate possible rape incidents of Penan […]

Environmentally friendly Malaysians? Oh, please…

By BRYAN
The facilities are great.

But the mentality? Here’s paper thrown in a bin marked “plastic.”

And plastic stuffed in a bin marked “paper.”

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