FITNESS centres are increasingly exercising the productivity pitch to attract corporate memberships, writes OOI TEE CHING Healthy employees are happy workers. And happy workers make a productive workforce which contributes towards bigger profits for employers. This is the marketing pitch a growing number of exercise centres in the Klang Valley are using to to boost [...]

For some women the term “beauty myth” conjures up Naomi Wolf’s feminist tome on the politicization of the fashion and diet industry.  But for the small group of predominantly women who gathered on May 24 in Mishkenot Sha’ananim for a conference entitled “The Beauty Myth feminist theory was conspicuously absent. Instead most of the presenters [...]