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By Hani Zul Fossum To begin with, I’ve never dreamt to be someone else’s wife let alone a mother.  But everything changed when I met my husband who encouraged me to start a family with him.  We were blessed with our first daughter when I was 37. The pregnancy and delivery went on without much drama.  Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor...

A new concept in property sales has emerged as the largest value-based real estate agency in Queensland. Despite only being a year old, the brainchild of three former Purple Bricks’ principals has teamed up and formed One Percent Property Sales which has twice the number of agents and more than five times the listings of its nearest competitor. Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send in a...

By June Ramli Irwan Ismail never thought that he would be living on an island and scuba diving all day long. The former graphic designer for renowned publications such as the New Straits Times , Malaysian Insider and the Malay Mail took the plunge in 2018 after deciding to pursue a life as a full-time scuba diver. The decision to leave the city centre came to Irwan after moonlighting in the profes...

By June Ramli Retired airforce technician Safwan Saleh never thought that he would be designing his own label after leaving the job five years ago. Despite having zero knowledge in designing, it never stopped the 34-year-old father with an engineering degree to give it a go. Recalling his early days, Safwan said he just finished up a 10-year-contract with the Royal Malaysian Airforce when he decid...

Nippon Paint has once again been crowned the top paint brand amongst Malaysians at a recently concluded Putra Brand 2020 Awards which was held virtually this year. The brand came in first in the home improvement products and stores category which evidently cemented its position as a market leader and total solutions coating provider in the country. Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send...

By June Ramli Jeff Sanders wants to see more astute marketing in Australia being carried out for the ‘new old.’ And by that, he means tasteful targeted marketing for baby boomers between the ages of 50 to 75. Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailystraitscom/message Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dailystraitsdotcom . Hosted on...

By June Ramli Simon Leprince has always been fascinated with the French language since childhood.  Born and bred in Malaysia, Leprince admiration for the language grew even more acute after watching his cousins speak fluently in the language whenever he visited his parents’ hometown in Pondicherry, India. Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor...

By June Ramli Shan Ramdas had always wanted to manage a golf club but the break to his dream career did not come easy.  Upon graduating with a Sports and Management degree from the prestigious University of Malaya, Ramdas remembers how he had to settle for numerous odd jobs in the interim before his day came. “When I graduated, it was during the 1999 recession and jobs were hard to come by. “...

By Azlimi Zakaria The year 2020 had the world gone viral with COVID-19, both literally and figuratively.  The sneaky culprit COVID-19 virus had found the best way to spread among us humans via our daily (bad) habits, like not keeping our unwashed hands to ourselves or not covering our mouths and noses when we sneezed.  Due to this, within months the outbreak had turned itself into a glob...

By June Ramli Australian trained accountant Intan Juliana has her work cut out in the next few months. This serial entrepreneur wants nothing more than for her newfound venture Fitflo Activewear to be one of the top fitness brands in Indonesia for modern and active Muslim women. And she is going all out to make that happen. Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send in a voice message: https...

By Sulastri Aziz One of the most rewarding and noble careers in the world is being a teacher. To me, that is because one is tasked with moulding the next generation of thinkers, leaders and so on. As a person, I have always known that teaching was the profession for me. Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dailystraitscom/message Support this show...

By June Ramli Ahmad Fuad Osman is no stranger in the artistic world. As even a simple Google search on the man will tell and show you his body of impressive work. A down to earth artist who is known to produce a lot of statement pieces, Ahmad conceded that being a full-time artist was no walk in the park. But nonetheless, he said a career in the art scene can be rewarding if one was willing to put...

By Diana Talit As we all know, the unexpected event that was the pandemic had devastating consequences in New York. I felt really scared and frustrated at the height of the pandemic around April till June of last year. I was worried because many opportunities such as travelling, meeting new people for work and even my social life took a back seat. Manhattan, where I live, was literally a dead city...

Devanandan Batumalai was on his usual route home from work when he received word that he was being headhunted for a senior position in Myanmar. He remembers the day clearly as he got the call. “I was stuck in a traffic jam in the Smart Tunnel in KL when the call came from a recruitment agency in Singapore,” he said. Read the full story at dailystraits.com --- Send in a voice message: https://ancho...

Opinion By Siti Syameen The year opened with the news of Naver’s acquisition on Wattpad for over AUD$773 million in January. For those who are unfamiliar,  Wattpad is a website for writers to publish new user-generated stories. The app founded by University of Toronto alumni Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in 2006 is about to write a new chapter in its own story. While most people might won...

By June Ramli A professional boxer based in Brisbane was shocked one day when his three-year-old daughter wanted to learn how to punch someone. At first, Kato Akeripa Falefehi just laughed it off but soon realised that his daughter Lesli Valu wasn’t mucking around. Not wanting to disappoint her, Falefehi decided to give in and teach Lesli a thing or two about boxing. He was soon blown away by what...

By June Ramli Two Sundays ago, on Valentine’s Day to be exact, I decided to volunteer my time to help manage a rowing competition that was held by the Balmain Rowing Club in Sydney, Australia. It was an interesting experience that I thought I’d share with everyone here. First of all, I’d like to say I’ve never been an athletic person, but since moving to Australia and to a suburb in the Inner West...

By June Ramli YTL Corp Bhd revenue increased by 10 per cent to RM4.59 billion for the quarter ended 31 December 2020 compared to RM4.18 billion for the previous quarter ended 30 September 2020. The company’s profit before tax grew 44 per cent to RM196.9 million for the three months ending 31 December 2020 compared to RM136.8 million recorded in the previous quarter, while profit after tax grew by...

By Fazleena Aziz KUALA LUMPUR: Unless you have been living under a rock, baking is the new thing. It would seem like everyone is a baker these days to earn an extra income or to make a living. Just a quick browse through Instagram, one can see the list of new bakers mushrooming around the corner offering a range of sweet and savoury delicacies that feed the needs of the masses. dailystraits.com sp...

Comment by Fazleena Aziz The death toll of the Coronavirus pandemic stands at  2.35 million as this article is being written with over 107 million cases recorded worldwide. The numbers are indeed staggering but more people have died of hunger and there is an ongoing famine in war-torn Yemen. The impact of this pandemic goes beyond deaths and recoveries. Coronavirus has affected people differe...

Comment by Fazleena Aziz It comes as no surprise that varsity students in Malaysia are seeking sugar daddies to support them or in essence to help them keep up with their lifestyle and financial woes. In a recent article published by Malay Mail and several news sites, Malaysia has some 42,500 sugar daddies, placing itself third in Asia. Log on to www.dailystraits.com to read the rest of this artic...