An Ambitious Overview of Penang’s Art Scene
by
Rachel Yeoh
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Tourist Arrival Trends
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SEVERE DISRUPTIONS FROM the Covid-19 pandemic have caused Malaysia and Penang’s robust tourism industry to suffer. Deemed a major contributor towards the econom...
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Imagining and Injecting Malaysiana Into Fantasy Fiction
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PART OF THE reason many of us desire to visit western countries is because they have been represented to us as magical, wonderful places in literature. The way...
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