We return with our monthly mental health clinic with consultant clinical psychologist Paul Jambunathan. On this segment, we address your concerns regarding mental, emotional and psychosocial issues. 

If you need emotional support, you can call Befrienders at 03-79568145/8144 or email [email protected].

Malaysia is one of only 25 countries that denies Malaysian women the right to confer nationality on their children on an equal basis as Malaysian men. Many are calling for Malaysia to amend the federal constitution to allow both men and women to confer their citizenship on their children born outside of Malaysia through the same process. We find out more from Bina Ramanand, the Lead Coordinator and Co-founder of the Foreign Spouses Support Group (FSSG) and Suri Kempe, the Programme Manager of Musawah.

Allyson Felix has now won more world titles than any other athlete. So why do the news headlines mention another athlete too, rather than only focussing on her feat?

Addressing the climate crisis is something that needs everyone’s participation. We discuss what the role of the arts can be.

While the haze seems to clearing up thanks to the monsoon rain, forest fires are an annual annoyance to almost everyone around the world. Can tech be a saviour in our quest to make the world free of forest fires? A gel developed by Stanford researchers may be the solution.

Forever 21 is yet another major brand that has struggled to survive in changing times. Them filing for bankruptcy reflects a shift in the way young people shop. There are lessons to be learned here about shopping behavior, generational gaps, and how some brands - no matter how huge - can lose their market share in a short amount of time.

Down in Singapore some travellers using online travel booking sites have ended up paying more than they bargained for because of the non-transparent pricing and marketing practices used on these sites. Has this happened to you?

In the spirit of nurturing change in line with Vision 2020, Acumen Academy Malaysia has launched the Acumen Fellows Programme - an intensive leadership development programme for individuals building solutions to tackle our country’s biggest social needs. Oga Chan discusses how she intends to cultivate moral leaders through the programme, and the importance of structures like these to highlight and hopefully towards solving problems of inequity.

Small, independent boutique hotels around the world are struggling in this climate. They don’t have the financial clout to make their presence felt, leaving them at risk of big-chain buyouts and being stomped out of the market. But there may be a solution for these hoteliers - ZUZU Hospitality Solutions wants to help hoteliers focus on hospitality by delivering higher revenue through their yield management solution.

Global roles and responsibilities of corporate directors have risen in tandem with higher levels of corporate governance. However in Malaysia, directors are sometimes seen as cronies and just a boys' club.  By recognising the issue, the SC formed Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia (ICDM), a one-stop shop for all boards and directors in an attempt to raise the standards of directors . We speak to Michele Kythe Lim to find out their plan whilst asking if the regulators can do more.