Editor’s Note: This post is part of an occasional series on words we found and took an immediate shine to…. When: late 1970s. I first met this word when I was eight years old (or thereabouts). It was just after dinner, and my family and I were standing in front of our house in Sea [...]
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Directing Madu II
Part 3: We interrupt this programme… I’m supposed to tell you about bumping-in, which is the fancy term for “setting up”, but we’re not doing that until next Monday morning (Apr 3). Marta the designer and Anand the set builder have finished the actual construction (almost everything has been recycled from something else) and Marta [...]
On being an intern
I remember the first day I arrived at the offices of Salt Media, eager to impress. I had dressed sharply for the occasion: a sky blue Massimo Dutti shirt and dark Zara Man trousers, set off with my good leather shoes. “It’s quite casual over there,” someone had advised, so I decided to forgo the [...]
Lubna makes her mark
While we were in Dubai for the Dubai World Games Expo 2010, SALT met with a young Malaysian woman who is giving Malaysian entrepreneurs a hand as they try to break into the Middle Eastern market. Read on for more about her: SHARIFAH Lubna Hanim Alsagaff looks like she belongs in the lead role of [...]
Politics: Women’s final frontier
What kind of political representation do Malaysian women have?
