Teachers use TikTok, YouTube to pique students’ interest in home-based learning
KUALA LUMPUR: The younger generation’s fondness of using social media applications such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube to interact and share daily routines has inspired teachers to use these tools in conducting the home-based teaching and learning programme (PdPR). These tools also keep students from feeling easily bored and unable to flex their limbs while […]
Whiz kid, 3, can identify over 100 flags
BY AFIEZUL SAMIT Recognising foreign flags is a daunting task for most people. However, for Arif Mirza Mazlan, who is just three years old, it is a fun thing. What is more interesting is that he knows more than 100 flags of countries around the world. Isn’t this great? According to Arif’s mother Nor Atikah […]
YouTube suspends Trump’s channel for at least one week
WASHINGTON: YouTube is suspending the channel of US President Donald Trump for at least one week, reported Sputnik news agency, quoting CNN. The US online video sharing service told CNN Business that a recent video on Trump’s channel had allegedly incited violence. YouTube plans to revisit the decision in a week. Earlier, Twitter and Facebook […]
I’m an accidental cook
No one is born a great cook; one learns by doing. — Julia Child, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality When my 24-year-old niece and her mother (my younger sister) visited an Iban friend in Johor Bharu, they had kasam babi (fermented pork) for dinner. My niece loved the pork, which had been preserved […]
BTS’ ‘Dynamite’ music video tops 600 million YouTube views
SEOUL: The music video of “Dynamite”, K-pop superstar BTS’ latest single, has surpassed 600 million views on YouTube, reports Yonhap news agency quoting its agency Tuesday. The dance video reached the milestone Monday midnight, nearly three months after it was released on the video-sharing site on Aug 21, according to Big Hit Entertainment. It is […]
i-STEEX online expo feather in Unimas’ cap
KUCHING: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak’s (Unimas) Faculty of Engineering has achieved a significant milestone by hosting the International Science and Technology Expo (i-STEEX) 2020 in conjunction with its flagship conference, the 13th International Unimas Engineering Conference (EnCon) 2020. This year, i-STEEX 2020 was conducted fully online through video competition on the YouTube platform. The Science, Technology, […]
Turning to YouTube to generate an income
BY SHANIKA ABDULLATIB KUALA LUMPUR: It is no secret that the entertainment industry has taken a battering as a result of Covid-19 but some enterprising local artistes and production houses have already turned to YouTube to generate a steady income for themselves. Among the local artistes who have huge presence on YouTube are Danny AhBoy with over 100 million […]
Les’ Copaque Production awarded by YouTube
KUALA LUMPUR: Les’ Copaque Production YouTube has been awarded the Diamond Creator Award from biggest video streaming platform YouTube for hitting 10 million subscribers. In a statement today, Les’ Copaque Production Sdn Bhd managing director Burhanuddin Md Radzi said with 10.3 million subscribers, Les’ Copaque Production has become the first YouTube channel in Malaysia to […]
Youtubers are not artistes: Awie
KUCHING: A person who only appears once in a youtube video performing a song cannot be considered as an artiste. This was the opinion of Malaysia’s iconic rock legend Datuk Ahmad Azhar Othman who is popularly known as Datuk Awie on social media platform “celebrities”. The 51-year-old lead vocal of rock band Wings sat down […]
Yuna to headline U Mobile’s show
KUCHING: Globally renowned Malaysian artiste Yuna will be the headline act in the finale of U Mobile’s #GroovesWithU, a series of music performances that will be streamed online for free. To mark this festive period, the #GroovesWithU finale is a Raya special so one can expect Yuna to belt out a couple of her Raya […]
