MCAT: Much room for improvement
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For those who missed the colourful brochures, advertisement banners and opening of the 1Malaysia Contemporary Art Tourism (MCAT) Festival 2011, it was an a...
Yachting Awaits Development in Penang
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When you gaze out over the sea around Penang, there is emptiness, the absence of boats of various shapes and sizes, save for the ubiquitous ferries, the occasio...
Alive But Not Well, The State of Penang's SMEs
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Plenty has been written about Malaysia being locked inside the so called middle income trap. The view is that the country is too expensive to effectively compet...
Some Ways of Increasing Quit Rent Revenue
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I wish to convey my opinion on how the Penang state government can improve its tax revenue collection for the sake of welfare and development projects. One of t...
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...