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.
The CISSPR team at the PSDC. From left : lab manager Chee Lay Hen, test engineer Cheng See See and tests specialists Wan Khairul Hazli bin Wan Mustapha, A...
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...
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...
Phee Boon PohIN 1992, Malaysia signed the United Nations’ Earth Summit Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Rio de Janerio. This gave r...
A week after the 2012 Malaysian Budget, the Penang Institute (formerly known as SERI) held its annual flagship event – the Post Budget Dialogue – to...
Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods th...
Water sports law to be enforcedThe Penang state government will begin to enforce the Personal Watercraft (Penang) Enactment 1999, following numerous jet-ski...
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...
Connecting oceansConnecting oceans Location at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca and its long coastline provide Penang with a substantial maritime ad...
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...
ErrataIn “Managing Malaysia’s first EMC lab”, published in issue 12.11, the term “technopreneur” was described as “Entre...