Giving Guests More
7 min read
MARCO GIOVANNI BATTISTOTTI is a familiar face in the Penang hotel scene. A larger than life figure, figuratively and literally speaking, the half-German half-It...
Sunway Rising
5 min read
Tan Hun BengTAN HUN BENG was 10. He was trying to concentrate in class when the din began, easily drowning out everything the teacher was saying. Outside...
Penang Philharmonic -Giving A Face to The City
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Today, the orchestra has some 80 members, playing everything from the violin to the oboe to the double bass. Its members consist of the young and the old, rangi...
The GTGP – A Prototype for Urban Regeneration
10 min read
Just like Think City, the George Town Grants Programme (GTGP) is unique, and is the first grants programme of its kind in Malaysia. All applicants fill out a...
Doctors Made in Malaysia
4 min read
Is Malaysia capable of offering world-class medical training? As far as Prof Datuk Dr Zainuddin Wazir, president of the Allianze University College of Medical S...
Visualising the Poverty Line
6 min read
What does it mean to be poor, really?That was the question photographer Stefen Chow asked when he started The Poverty Line. The undertaking is unusual for a p...
MPPP to Host Top Tourism Forum
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Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and MPPP president Patahiyah Ismail (right) launching the Penang TPO brand on April 15 this year.One of George Town'...
The Imam Guide in the Garden
4 min read
Raja Mohamad Izan Raja Yusoff takes his job at the Tropical Spice Garden seriously. “Our responsibility is to tell the truth about our plants.” Ther...
What The Higgs Happened?
7 min read
What did we discover?The jury is still out! The measurements we have made have not yet achieved sufficient precision to say conclusively whether or not this i...
PDC's New Plan to Attract MNCs – Build and Lease
5 min read
As the global economy grows more and more uncertain, the last thing the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) needed was a multinational corporation telling them...
Luang Prabang Possesses a Charm that Outshines Excessive Tourism
5 min read
I checked into the Villa Maly, a lovely boutique hotel a short walking distance away from the centre of town. This establishment shows perfectly why Unesco deci...
Sailing The Seas around Penang
4 min read
Pen Marine was formed in 1988 to promote leisure boating in Malaysia, as well as to provide storage for boats. Oh Kean Shen and his partner, Pheh Hoe Huat (who...