Salt had a big night yesterday when two of the books we produced in 2011 were honoured at the National Book Awards ceremony in Kuala Lumpur. Forever Green: A Sustainable Future with Deramakot – on the Sabah Forestry Department’s groundbreaking work establishing the Deramakot forest reserve – bagged the Best Luxury Book Award in the [...]
An update on Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian
Salt is proud to share with you the recent feature article from The Star on Rita Sim’s book Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian. In the article, they outline the main points of the book and explore the content with some commentary from Rita Sim. We are so happy it is getting such wide coverage and recognition! [...]
20 predictions for the future
A week ago the BBC Magazine published an article exploring some predictions made by American civil engineer John Watkins in 1900. Most of Watkins’s predictions were astoundingly accurate (notably digital colour photography, mobile phones, television, and free university education), while a few others were perhaps a little ambitious (phasing out C, X, and Q from [...]
A new school year with UNICEF
To kick off the new year, UNICEF is drawing attention to the plight of children with no access to education. Their ongoing collaboration with a number of local and international partners aim to achieve the Education for All goals, which upholds the rights of all children to an education, and thus improve their lives beyond [...]
