Founder of Nirvana Asia Ltd, Tan Sri David Kong Hon Kong, 66, has come a long way from being the son a poor rubber tapper family in Kuala Lipis, Pahang to become one of the richest men in Malaysia. Forbes stated his net worth as US$900 million as at 3 April 2020. In 1990 he established Nirvana Memorial Park in Seminyih, Selangor on 323 acres of former plantation land. On 3 August 2000, he listed Nirvana as  NV Multi Corporation on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia (then the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange). In an interview with the Star newspaper, Tan Sri David Kong said, “I simply had a dream to provide seamless, worry-free death services,...

The Pandemic has devastated the cruise industry across the board globally. The first to send a warning out in early May 2020 was Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) which announced that it may not survive the Coronavirus and it couldn’t guarantee that it could continue as a going concern. But it managed shortly thereafter to secure US$2.23billion funding from bond and equity investors  “to cover over 12 months of voyage suspensions” according to Bloomberg. That was a big relief to NCL.  

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise operator which owns Carnival CruiseLine, P&O Cruises, Princess Cruises, Seabourn Cruise line, Costa Cruises,...

Datuk Dr Andrew Mohanraj Chandrasekaran, Commonwealth Scholarship holder to study Medicine at Calicut Government Medical College India, Scholarship by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists to pursue a Fellowship in Community Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, President of the Malaysian Mental Health Association and Board Member, World Federation for Mental Health – and a man of our times.  

He pioneered sustainable psychosocial rehabilitation and community mental health services in Acheh after seeing the devastation on human life and its aftermath by the 2004 tsunami. He was there as a volunteer with...

When someone you love walks out of your life or just disappears, what do you do? Keow Wee Loong, 32, threw a few essentials into his backpack and started walking North, to Ipoh. Perhaps going the proverbial south was too much for him. But he just had to go somewhere - away from the house that reminded him of her voice, her smell, her laughter, her affections for him which were now just painful memories.

The Star’s article titled “Caring M’sians the remedy” (Nation, 14 Sept 2020) by Mohd Izzat Mohd Khalizan documented how Wee Loong had kindness shown to him by ordinary Malaysians along the six day solo journey till he arrived in Ipoh....

The National Visual Arts Gallery (formerly known as the National Art Gallery) has a new Chairman with effect from 1 May 2020 – Datuk Tom Abang Saufi, 56, an established Malaysian fashion designer who resides in Kuala Lumpur. She will plan the post MCO direction of the National Visual Arts Development Board (NVADB) and will oversee NVADB programmes and direction. One of the latest initiatives of the NVADB was the launch of www.gogallery.my the free digital platform for all art lovers and the Malaysian art industry to connect, share, sell and buy art.  

Datuk Tom Abang Saufi set up her fashion business in the capital in her early 20s...