Lighting the way
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CAMBODIA IN THE early 1990s was not the investment location of choice for the “big guns” of the Western business elite, despite its proximity to the...
Taking bigger than baby steps to transform the economy
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PENANG CHIEF MINISTER Lim Guan Eng recently demanded that the Prime Minister Department’s Performance and Management & Delivery Unit (Pemandu) gives a...
The Humanities are needed more than ever
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Taken from the keynote address at the Opening Dinner of the Ninth Regional API Workshop of The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API...
Things tourists cannot experience
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Above: The PalanquInn Heritage Suites.I WAS SURPRISED when I visited Penang recently to discover that there’s a boutique hotel operating on Bangkok...
Malaysia needs an equitable healthcare system
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Malaysia’s relatively equitable health system of the pastAny humane society must adopt the principle that healthcare is a right of all its citizens and...
Greening communities in Penang
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GOING GREEN IS no longer simply a buzzword, nor is it a passing fad. This is becoming obvious to more and more people. In this decade alone, many have come to...
Cities, People & the Economy: A Study on Positioning Penang
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PENANG HAS ALWAYS had to depend on its people for economic survival. For the last 40 years, this has been achieved through a development model focused on medium...
Dr Juergen Schloesser: Everything possible, nothing easy
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What is the management rotation system like at the B.Braun headquarters? What determines which individual gets posted for international assignments?We look fo...
Eco-towns – The Asian Experience
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OPINIONS VARY WHEN it comes to the definition of an Eco-town; essentially, an Eco-town is a township that incorporates environmental protection and management p...
Memories of Penang Hill
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Leith (1775–1842) was the Governor of Prince of Wales Island from 1800 to 1803. Immediately after he took up this position, he successfully negotiated w...
The Many Sides of Good City Living
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ONE OUT OF TWO people in the world already lives in a city today. In 40 years, seven out of 10 will be doing that. Rapid urbanisation around the world has put t...
Improving Penang’s wet markets
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DESPITE THE GROWING popularity of air-conditioned and generally clean shopping malls, wet markets still exist in Penang. Not only that, they are still popular m...