Jeffrey Hardy Quah - Penang Monthly

Paradise Being Lost, All Is Not Well on Penang’s Beaches

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 This article first appeared in our September 2011 issue. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we put together for you in this issue some of our most...

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RIDING THE TECH TIGER

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Curry Khoo.I meet Curry Khoo for the first time at Starbucks in Auto-City in Juru. It is afternoon and I am actually running late – Google Maps is l...

Stormy weather in Penang

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AT THE TIME of this interview, Kelvyn Yeang was in his Tanjong Bungah home/studio helping a friend fix his electric guitar, the guts of which had spilled out. T...

Giving it everything

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According to 20something Chee Beng Kean, “There’s a void in the market in terms of computer knowledge. The usual practice for it services companie...

Earth Hour under the rain tree

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Dr Goh Ban Lee speaking at the 1st Penang Blueprint Roundtable.At precisely 8.30pm the electric lights went out, blanketing the grounds of the Socio-Econo...

By George Town! A festival to inherit

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About four months ago, the Penang state government put out a call for people to submit their ideas for the year’s 2010 Unesco celebrations, conceived to b...

Building the Penang Bridge

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LIAW YEW PENG could have been a doctor. His grades were good enough, and he enjoyed subjects like biology. Many of his peers had chosen to go into medicine. Car...

Priced off Penang: Who can afford an island home?

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Property prices in Penang have skyrocketed in recent years, particularly in the northeastern region of the island, and young Penangites now face the prospect of...

Lim Chong Eu Revisited

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Tan Sri Khalid Ahmad SulaimanPenang state executive councillor (1974–1982) and former Penang state Barisan Nasional secretary.Tan Sri Khalid Ahmad Sul...

Life on the List

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Puan Maimunah Sharif.ENOUGH TIME has now passed for PEM to start asking what the most signifi cant and most noticeable changes are. We also wish to find o...

Keeping Penang watered

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IT HAS BEEN a busy couple of months for the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP, more commonly referred to as PBA). On December 28, 2010, the water company c...

Best Step Forward For Public Transport

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IT IS A FAMILIAR SIGHT: every working day, right after quitting time, the Penang Bridge is filled with thousands of cars (with plenty of empty passenger seats...