KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 13 -- Malaysian director Edmund Yeo brings a beautiful pathos to his adaptation of Li Zi Shu's acclaimed The Age of Goodbyes. Li herself was unsure about her book's adaptability as... Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 12 -- It hasn't been a month since the iPhone Duo's launch on October 23, and what was once a weakness (lack of app support) is swiftly being remedied. For instance: In Malaysia, p... Read More
Kuala Lampur, Nov. 11 -- Musliha, the cancer patient I had mentioned in a few of my columns, passed away over the weekend. She died at home, weakened and in pain, after being told there was nothing m... Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 6 -- Throughout human history, it has been a sad fact that rights have never been freely given so much as they have needed to be advocated and fought for. Telling the stories of th... Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 6 -- "What's this? What's this?" Reviewing the iPhone Duo feels a lot like being Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas. The iPhone 4 was my first iPhone, won in a rand... Read More
Kuala Lampur, Oct. 28 -- Sometimes you have to embrace cliches. A columnist getting cancer writing a book about it? Ah, how predictable, how mundane. That didn't stop me from writing one though. I'... Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 28 -- Malaysian concertgoers get a double treat next week when The Weeknd performs here for two nights, with a special guest in Japanese hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts. Creepy Nuts perfor... Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 23 -- As you're reading this, a crowd of Malaysians are triumphantly taking home iPhone Duos much like hunters after a successful foray into the woods. If you're perplexed at the r... Read More
Kuala Lampur, Oct. 21 -- I walked past a motorcycle workshop the other day and saw it had chained the grates over the nearby drains. Makes sense, I thought, and kept walking. Years ago, someone had ... Read More
Kuala Lampur, Oct. 7 -- I am an unabashed Pokemon fan. While I don't watch the cartoons as they're not for me (that's OK, kids deserve kids' media), I do enjoy the video games and keep up with the fr... Read More