More and More Malls in Penang
9 min read
Penang’s retail landscapeIn recent years, shopping malls, hypermarkets and departmental stores have been rapidly growing on both the island and the main...
1Care – A Careless Reform
6 min read
IntroductionAneurin Bevan (1897-1960), the UK’s Minister of Health immediately after the Second World War, once stressed that where medical needs exist,...
Civil Society and Pakatan Governments
6 min read
Interestingly, many individuals from nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) made the decision to join (then) opposition parties and contest in the 12th General El...
Microcredit, Macro-Goals
6 min read
Poverty eradication has always been a tall order, and approaches to do so over the years have been subject to much debate.You may have heard of Prof Muhamma...
What ’s The Deal When Government Gives Away Money?
5 min read
Speaking as a layman, I’m aghast that the government is giving out so much money these days, as if there’re lots more where it’s coming from...
Encore, Penang World Music Festival
5 min read
It wasn’t so long ago that Penang played host to some of the best international acts that the music world had to offer. This was at the Penang World Music...
The Thought Bazaar
3 min read
Carbon dioxide rockets shot up from makeshift launching pads, and their plastic bottle cargo parachuted down briskly to the ground. Every zipping projectile t...
PSC Pillars Talk Science
5 min read
Datuk Wong Siew HaiPillar leader for the Penang Technology Centre Chairman, Malaysian American Electronics IndustryTell us a little more about the proposed...
Penang Sets Its Sights On Science
4 min read
It’s been 40 years since multinational corporations (MNCs) first set up factories in Penang. The technological innovations involved have undergone seismic...
The Common Good in Penang's Progress
17 min read
Is development good or bad?Private development, we are seeing with increased intensity in Penang, is actually a deal made between private business and its cus...
Gender Equality and The Millennium Development Goals
4 min read
Malaysia: The Millennium Development Goals at 2010 paints a general but holistic picture of the status of Malaysia since the midterm review in 2005. I was impre...
Women: Economy and Employment
6 min read
The 2009 International Labour Organization (ILO) report on Global Employment Trends for Women warned that, with the deepening of the recession in 2009, the glob...