BY ELENA CHAI
Mooncake Festival, known as Zhong Qiu Jie in Mandarin, is one of the most celebrated festivals among the Chinese community in Sarawak. A little distance away over the border, in West Kalimantan, the festival is often associated...
By Umie Syazwanie Mohd
BEFORE the advent of modern music in Sarawak, no public gatherings or celebrations — weddings, harvest festivals included — were complete without bermukun.
Bermukun is a traditional performance art of the Malays, Kedayans and Melanaus.
It comprises singing,...
KUCHING: If you love chocolates, you will like the cakes and biscuits that Norsurianie Suwel, 31, makes for sale.
Among the cakes and biscuits, she produces are rainbow cat tongue biscuits, kuih sepit berinti, chocolate brownies, chocojar, Nutella pods, chocolate...
By Petronella Langita Felix & Aisyah Azzahra Suhiri
KUCHING: Good self-esteem and interpersonal relationship, ability to perform daily routines, sense of satisfaction and gratefulness are some of the many indicators of good mental health, said senior lecturer with Universiti Malaysia...
By Umie Syazwanie Mohd
KUCHING: Medical and nursing students who had to undergo their practical at selected hospitals during this Covid-19 pandemic are left with little or no choice but to soldier on as medical and health frontliners.
Together with the...
By Nur Hazirah Shuk
KUCHING: “I decided to see a private doctor as the fever and cough, which I thought were normal (as a result of overeating durian), had lasted for four days,” said Alicia Ng, sharing her experience...
By Muhammad Basir Roslan
KUALA LUMPUR: A non-invasive procedure to treat uterine fibroids known as High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is set to change the treatment landscape for women nationwide.
According to Mahkota Medical Centre (MMC) Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Dr S. Selva,...
By Kalsum Mohammadin
Abang Yusup Abang Wasli and his family were in Kuching one day to celebrate his son’s convocation when his daughter, Dayang Siti Aisyah, bought him coffee which was served in a tin can.
That coffee in a can...
Creative careers are more than just fun and rewarding — they can also be lucrative, stable and a great way to work with and help people every day. Florist Ellen Kong says that trends may change but fresh flowers...
First of a three-part series
FOR well over a year now the world has been held to ransom by an unrelenting virus that has already claimed millions of lives, taken medical facilities to the brink, wrecked economies and destroyed livelihoods....
