Penang Institute Localises the George Town Literary Festival
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ALREADY FAMOUS FOR its street food and street art, Penang is determined to capture the word on the street too.…
Khoo Kongsi: 118 Proud Years of History
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FROM SIN KANG VILLAGE in Fujian, China, men sailed south for greener pastures. Steer left, and you would arrive in…
We Are What We Throw Away
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HOW MANY OF us like to look through rubbish? Ipoh born artist Chin Pik Wun is one who would raise…
A Maestro Comes Home
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When Soprano Loh Siew Tuan first began singing in a Methodist church choir as a child, little did she imagine that it would someday lead her to perform at London’s Wigmore Hall.
Forkbeard’s Odyssey Lands in Penang
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TRAGEDY, COMEDY, LOVE and adventure. The musical, Forkbeard, set in 11th-century Scandinavia, contains all the ingredients for an epic historical…
Anatomy of the Penang Shophouse
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MIXED DEVELOPMENTS AND integrated communities are a trend today among property developers. But long before the shiny brochures promoting these new home concepts...
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Vulnerable and Exposed: Saw Teong Hin on the Travails of Filmmaking
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WHEN SAW TEONG HIN started his filmmaking career in KL, he began at the bottom rung. But to even get a foot in, he had to leaf through the Yellow Pages from A t...