Indian spiritualist and humanitarian Amma, known as "The Hugging Saint,'' blesses followers. - REUTERS filepic
What’s in a hug? Much more than meets the eye, say researchers. It’s therapeutic, soothing, eases stress and chases away your cares. But as we have seen, it can touch a raw nerve or two.
YOU know you have some weird relatives when they travel more than 400km from Kedah to your house in Petaling Jaya, only to freshen up and then head off to some mall in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.
There, they plonk themselves down with a couple of thousand people and wait, sometimes for up to 12 hours.
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