Jeffrey Hardy Quah - Penang Monthly (Page 3)

BJ Habibie – Leading a Country in Transition

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JEFFREY HARDY QUAH: You’re seen today as the transitional leader between the Suharto era and the post-Suharto era. But during your administration, did you...

Kid Stuff

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Robots made of Lego? Kids building their own motors? Water rockets blasting off towards the sun in defiance of Granny Gravity’s eternal pull? That’s...

Making tourism lasting

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Prof Badaruddin Mohamed remembers a time when few people were interested in the phenomenon of tourism, or at least tourism research.“In 1990, the numb...

Earning the business in the airline business

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As Malaysia Airlines (Mas) senior vice president for global sales and distribution Duncan Bureau gave his presentation at the inaugural Asia Pacific Tourism, Ho...

Penang – A future centre for classical music in Asia?

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At the Penang Philharmonic Orchestra’s (PPO) new venue on Lebuh Pitt, young musicians calmly practice their shiny instruments as others mingle and help th...

Aiming for developed yet healthy cities

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Anthony Capon’s first trip to Penang was as a medical student in 1981, and 30-odd years later, he is stunned by how much Penang has changed. “One of...

The mystery we call development

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In the late 1970s, Canadian diplomat David Malone found himself in Sudan, tasked by his government to check in on its $30mil aid programme. Six big projects wer...

The Art of Sonny Liew

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Sonny Liew.In Seremban, a young Sonny Liew stumbled across an issue of the British anthology comic series, 2000AD. “My mind was blown,” he sai...

Probing root problems with music, the Kareem Salama way

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Kareem Salama had what he called a “very traditional American upbringing” in Oklahoma. His Egyptian parents, both engineers, migrated to the US in t...

Highlights of George Town Festival 2015

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 The Metamorphosis, Android VersionIn France sometime in the near future, as war rages in the background, Gregor wakes up one morning to find that he...

Taking Penang Chinese cuisine abroad

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At 51, Andy Leong is currently the executive Chinese chef at the exclusive Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok, the latest position in a long, eventful culinary career...

A Sky of Stars: Penang Shines as a Sporting State

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Mention squash and Datuk Nicol David comes to mind for most of us. The longest reigning world No. 1 (a whopping 108 consecutive months!) until September last ye...