SINGAPORE – Four teenagers share what they wished their parents knew about their mental health struggles, while Dr Deva Priya Appan, associate consultant at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) department of developmental psychiatry, gives them some guidance and encouragement. I started having symptoms of anxiety when I was 16. They included unexplained nervousness, tremors, loss […]
SINGAPORE – When my daughters were in primary school, I remember helping them to bake cookies as gifts for Teachers’ Day. This happened only once or twice. It was probably because it was too much effort and yielded too few cookies. It could also be due to my constant reminders that, as a teacher, I […]
JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – All travellers entering Malaysia – including citizens – must verify their Covid-19 vaccination certificates with the authorities, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Adham Baba on Sunday (Sept 5). “Malaysians who have been inoculated in foreign countries such as Singapore have to go to the nearest district health […]
KABUL (AFP) – Taliban fighters have advanced deep into Afghanistan’s holdout Panjshir Valley, with resistance fighters saying they are keeping the Islamists at bay, but analysts warned they are struggling. Italian aid agency Emergency, which runs a hospital in Panjshir, said Taliban forces had reached the village of Anabah, where they run a surgical centre. […]
SINGAPORE – The Community Chest Vertical Marathon kicked off, virtually for the first time, on Sunday (Sept 5). It was previously a segment of the annual Community Chest Heartstrings Walk, organised by the Community Chest with Marina Bay Sands (MBS) since 2011. But now, with Covid-19 restrictions in place, it is a standalone virtual event. […]
SABAH (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Recent terrorist bombings in the Philippines and Indonesia have been linked to a family living in Malaysia’s Sabah state, say experts, who warn that familial extremism is a growing trend in the region. The perpetrators of the suicide bombings that killed 23 at the Jolo cathedral in the southern […]
TAIPEI – While she was alive, Ms Iyang Apay would never voluntarily speak of the horrible things she went through as a 15-year-old girl living on Taiwan’s picturesque east coast. She turned away groups of volunteers who visited her at her village in Hualien County in the 1990s, fearing that they would expose the secret that she […]
BANGKOK (AFP) – Pro-democracy protesters vented their anger in Bangkok’s heavy rain Saturday (Sept 4) after Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-cha survived a no-confidence vote in parliament. More than 300 demonstrators marched in central Bangkok’s main shopping mall district carrying red flags and wearing ponchos in the downpour. “The government should be gone. If things […]
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — When the man grabbed one of the knives at a Countdown supermarket in West Auckland on Friday and began stabbing shoppers, the police were just outside. They had followed him there. They had, in fact, been following him for months, since he was released from prison. Officials at the highest levels […]
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Japan is preparing to extend its Covid-19-induced state of emergency by around two weeks for Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures, the Mainichi newspaper reported on Saturday (Sept 4). Six other prefectures including industrial centres Osaka and Aichi will also be considered for extensions of the emergency period from the current end date […]