CRAZY IDEAS. Instinct. Gut feeling. It’s all part of what it takes to start a business. This was discussed during The Nut Graph’s fifth Found in Conversation event on 24 Oct 2010 on creativity and innovation in business. AirAsia X chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani, The Body Shop managing director Datin Mina Cheah-Foong and Red […]
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Revolutionising education
By The Nut GraphON 25 July 2010, The Nut Graph and three experts grappled with what needs to be done to restore our public education through the forum Found in Conversation: Creativity and Innovation in Education. On the panel were educator and dancer-choreographer Datin Marion D’Cruz, 3R executive producer and social commentator Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, and Learning […]
“Segregation drives me nuts”
By Nick Choo
FILM and television producer Lina Tan graduated with a Mass Communications degree in 1991. She has worked in production houses in Malaysia and Singapore, and has produced for, among others, the Disney Channel and AXN. In 1999, she founded Red Communications, under which she has produced and directed many local TV commercials and programmes. She talks to The Nut Graph in the Red Communications office in Petaling Jaya on 13 May 2010.
Resisting the force-fitters
By Nick ChooRafidah Abdullah (all pics courtesy of Rafidah Abdullah) AFTER graduating from University of Malaya with a Bachelor of Laws degree, Rafidah Abdullah entered the entertainment field as one of the original presenters of 3R, an infotainment programme for young women. She began writing scripts for 3R and went on to write for other television programmes […]
How 3R changed Malaysian TV
By Marina MahathirSOMETIMES the best ideas start with simple conversations. I was worried about the numbers of women becoming infected with HIV and was trying to think of a way to educate them about the virus. I was also conscious that education alone was not enough; women who became infected were invariably women who had no rights […]
Teladan American Idol
Oleh Shanon ShahSAYA kagum dengan Kris Allen, juara American Idol musim kelapan. Bukan kerana saya rasa dia layak memenangi peraduan realiti tersebut, tetapi kerana dia seorang penganut agama Kristian yang menarik. Allen, yang sudah berkahwin dengan seorang wanita muda yang sangat comel, nampaknya sungguh senang dan mesra dengan naib juara American Idol — Adam Lambert. Adam Lambert […]
