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Sheela Chandran ANN/THE STAR – Widow Lalita Ramasamy almost fell into depression after her mother, Kaliyanee Mayandi, 71, died due to cervical cancer last November. Lalita found it hard to accept her mother’s death, which affected her physical and mental health. To overcome her grief, the Penang-based woman turned to crochet, her long-lost hobby, to […]
Julia Marnin THE STAR / DPA – The most commonly reported COVID-19 symptoms in recent weeks have changed since the SARS-CoV-2 virus started to spread across the globe, a study has found. The top symptoms were mostly similar regardless of vaccination status, according to the Zoe Health Study, a long-running research project based in the […]
KARACHI (AFP) – The assassination attempt on former prime minister Imran Khan and his accusation it was a plot involving a senior intelligence officer has pushed Pakistan into a “dangerous phase”, analysts said. Khan escaped with bullet wounds to his legs from an assassination attempt on Thursday as he led supporters on a highly publicised […]
Becky Krystal THE WASHINGTON POST – You’re hosting a cookout, so you make a run to the store. As you tip various ingredients and supplies into your cart, you realise you need a plan for the non-meat eaters. You haven’t really played around with them before, but you grab a couple of packages of plant-based […]
THE STAR – A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted North Sulawesi province in central Indonesia yesterday, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country’s meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said. The quake rocked at 7.03am Jakarta time, with the epicentre at 69 kilometres (km) southwest of Kepulauan Sitaro district and the depth at 255km under the seabed, […]