Razan Rose - Penang Monthly

The City Stadium – Where Sports are Worshipped

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We do it at home, we do it at the mamak stall, we do it in front of the Astro store in shopping malls. Football matches are great fun to watch, but what’s...

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The Force behind the Festivals

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The Borneo Jazz Festival (BJF), held May 13- 14 at the ParkCity Everly Hotel in Miri, has grown immensely in just a decade. In its 11th year now, the festival h...

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A Pulsating Play that is a Stroll of Rediscovery

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Singaporeans Lim Yu-Beng and Tan Kheng Hua are no strangers to Malaysians – especially Tan, who is famously known as Margaret Phua from the long-running h...

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A Model Village that Stays Vibrant

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Penang’s beginnings as a port city and its subsequent bloom into a cosmopolitan centre have left it a unique multicultural society with various strands...

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Ropewalk Bagan – A Treasure Awaiting Hunters

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Mention flea markets and Lorong Kulit’s Ropewalk immediately comes to the mind of most Penangites.In the 1970s this famous flea market was actually foun...

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A Lifeline for the Urban Poor

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It is said that the larger and more developed a city is, the greater the chances of seeing people living out on the streets. And so, when a city is big enough...

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Celebrating George Town’s History of Diversity

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The George Town Heritage Celebrations (GTHC) is an annual celebration done to commemorate George Town’s inscription as a Unesco World Heritage Site on Jul...

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Photo Studios Softly Fading Away

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Photography became popular – along with printing machines and gramophones – at the end of the nineteenth century.By the 1920s, photography had bec...

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Communicating History, Connecting Generations

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The Youth Arts Camp (YAC), well into its fifth year now, attests to the strong intent of inculcating art as a learning tool and further developing a creative-cr...

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