What's Your Penang?
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A LONG TIME AGO, I was standing on a London tube platform watching rats scurry under the rails. Something caught the edge of my eye, a vaguely familiar beach...
What Is The Truth About The Baling Talks?
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WE TEND TO THINK OF the Baling Talks of 1955 as a serious attempt by the government to negotiate peace with the Communists.But if we were to study the actua...
Learning Heritage From Penang
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A DELEGATION FROM the Indonesian National Heritage Trust, made up of architects, planners, archaeologists, heritage property owners, government officers, acad...
The Past Is The Present
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SOMEHOW heritage became an unquestionable value in itself in the everyday life of George Town ever since its Unesco World Heritage listing, and often there is n...
Rivers of Tears
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HANGING AROUND Lorong Kulit on a rainy evening isn’t everyone’s idea of an artsy night out; the area is better known for its daytime fruit stalls an...
George Town –Where Design and Culture Must Continue to Merge
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GEORGE TOWN CANNOT help telling a thousand tales. The “outstanding universal values” that emanate from its foundation of culturally informed design...
Household Debt in Malaysia – Is It Sustainable?
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ONE IMPORTANT LESSON from the financial crisis of 2007–2009 is that economic stability and financial fragility are not only influenced by consumer price...
Pricing The Homemaker
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TWO-THIRDS OF economic wealth is generated by human capital; and the catalyst in this staggering equation lies in the process of parenting. More interesting, a...
The Face of A Movement
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AMONG ALL THE photographs taken during the Bersih 2.0 rally, one stands out. In it, a petite grey-haired lady clad in a yellow T-shirt is seen standing in fro...
Bersih 2.0 A Desire For Democracy
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THOESE WHO PARTICIPATED IN, or followed developments leading to the gathering organised by Bersih 2.0 on July 9, 2011 must have come out of it with mixed feelin...
Keep Solid Waste Local
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ON A MALAYSIAN online directory listing, Alam Flora Sdn Bhd’s description of itself reads: “We’ve been entrusted by the Government to manage t...
Addressing The Housing Issue
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Ong Ee LynnDEMAND FOR HIGH-END property in Penang has been robust and finding new houses or apartments on the island in the RM250,000–RM350,000 rang...