If the amount of face-time we give to our computers, tablets and smartphones is anything to go by, many of us are spending a generous chunk of our time surfing online. But what, exactly, are we doing there? According to a new study from the Pew Research Centre, 53 per cent of 18 to 29 [...]
Ten questions for 2012
It’s been an eventful 2011, both in Malaysia and in the world in general — a three-fold disaster in Japan, the Arab Spring, our homegrown Bersih 2.0 movement, two failed apocalypses, and the assassination of Osama Bin Laden — we can’t say this year was a boring one. And now that we are in the [...]
The Palestinian Film Festival KL
The Colour of Olives (2006) is a film that follows the life of the Amers family in the harsh landscape of what is now known as the Palestinian Territories. Malaysians will have the chance to watch the 97-minute film at the Palestinian Film Festival this Friday at 5pm. In addition to this, The Palestinian Film [...]
Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian
SALT is happy to announce the launch of Unmistakably Chinese, Genuinely Malaysian – a book we had the pleasure of working on with Rita Sim from Sin Chew Daily newspaper. The book explores how the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia is not properly understood – as outsiders we assume that all Chinese are the same, but [...]
