Penang Monthly

Penang Monthly, by Penang Institute, is the voice of Penang, offering insights on its people, politics, economy, culture, and society, with a focus on local and national issues for curious Malaysians.

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Malaysia’s Performance On The MDGs: A Differentiated Picture

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Dr Lin Mui KiangIN 2011, the United Nations (UN) and the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) published The Millennium Development Goals at 2010, th...

What Do The State Budgets of Penang and Selangor Tell Us?

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WE ARE LIVING in times beset by talk of financial difficulties all over the world.The Eurozone crisis continues to unfold with the economies of Spain, Greece...

Give Butterworth A Coastal Park

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IN THE JUNE 2010 issue of this magazine, I published an article entitled “Butterworth remains the Ugly Duckling”. It was about the failure of the to...

Ideas and Actions For A Green State

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Phee Boon PohIN 1992, Malaysia signed the United Nations’ Earth Summit Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Rio de Janerio. This gave r...

2012 Budget Under The Microscope at Penang Institute

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A week after the 2012 Malaysian Budget, the Penang Institute (formerly known as SERI) held its annual flagship event – the Post Budget Dialogue – to...

Budget 2012 Reveals Malaysia’s Structural Problems

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Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods th...

Penang News

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Water sports law to be enforcedThe Penang state government will begin to enforce the Personal Watercraft (Penang) Enactment 1999, following numerous jet-ski...

Heritage Trees of Penang

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When you browse through a bookstore to search for books on cultural landscapes, it is not uncommon to find many that deal with the built environment, and how...

Penang's Maritime Potential

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Connecting oceansConnecting oceans Location at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca and its long coastline provide Penang with a substantial maritime ad...

The State of Non-Muslims in Penang and Selangor.

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The season for cheer last December was slightly dampened by several events in the months leading up to Christmas. Christmas carollers were thrown into confu...

Continuing A 125-year-old Internationalisation Strategy

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ErrataIn “Managing Malaysia’s first EMC lab”, published in issue 12.11, the term “technopreneur” was described as “Entre...

PPSMI:A Different Perspective

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An overviewPengajaran dan Pembelajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam Bahasa Inggeris or PPSMI - to teach and learn mathematics and science in English –...