Slowing Climate Change
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This article first appeared in our May 2013 issue. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we put together for you in this issue some of our most memorable arti...
The Man Who Industrialised Penang
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This article first appeared in our July 2010 issue. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we put together for you in this issue some of our most memorable art...
CPO Shuhaily Zain: To Lead Is to Train (Part Two)
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IN FEBRUARY 2023, Penang Monthly published the first part of an interview with Dato’ Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain, the Chief Police Officer of Penang, which was titl...
CPO Shuhaily Zain: Beyond Mere Enforcement of the Law (Part One)
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On 15 December 2022, Penang Monthly’s editor Dato Ooi Kee Beng interviewed Dato’ Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain at his office at the Penang Contingent Police Headquart...
The Dubious Grouping of Ages
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I ASSUME THAT he who sees a cup as half empty will try to conserve what he has, while he who sees a cup as half full will proceed to fill it further. I also ass...
Happy Accidents that Bred Academic Impact and Excellence: Ooi Kee Beng in conversation with Danny Quah (Part One)
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One of the most influential academics and economists in the world today is Penang boy, Danny Quah. A citation impact study done in 2020 by Stanford University p...
Getting Back on Our Feet, and with Back Held Straight
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DISASTERS – natural or manmade – tend to affect a limited geographical area.A typhoon cutting across the Philippines, like Typhoon Vongfong in May...
The Future of Tourism—Only as Bright as We Make It
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SINCE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL became possible post-Covid, I have, for various reasons, been staying in at least five countries for substantial periods of time, inc...
Farizan bin Darus: Disruptions Await Society and the Civil Service (Part Two)
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THIS IS PART Two of an interview Penang Monthly's editor Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng had with Dato' Seri Haji Farizan bin Darus on April 15, 2021. Farizan retired as...
Introducing the Penang Walk Zones Project
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IF THERE IS one motto that Penang Monthly can use to describe its mission and vision, it is "Knowing Penang". That means capturing to the best of its ability al...
From Free Port to Modern Economy. Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990
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Published by Penang Institute and ISEAS (Singapore) 2019Introduction (Abridged)WHILE Tun Dr Lim Chong Eu (1919-2010) was undoubtedly a major actor in the early...
E&E and E&E: Penang’s Two Economic Legs Showing Strong Muscles
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As with Singapore three decades later, Penang, on being taken over by the British in 1786, immediately depended on the benefits of being a free port. The contin...