Regina Hoo - Penang Monthly

Opening Art Up – An Island-wide Welcoming of the Public into the Studio

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It was a weekend not to be missed for art lovers and aesthetes. Open Studios Penang – a festival that celebrates the paint and brush, and the artists behi...

Swedish Firm Brings ERP to Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs

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As businesses aim to increase productivity and decrease cost, having a reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is one way to ensure production factor...

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Keepers of Heritage

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Suffolk House, the Carpenters’ Guild Loo Pun Hong, Han Jiang Ancestral Temple… the Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) has been a bastion for Penang&r...

Coworking Brings Connections to Cherish

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The advantages of working in a shared space can be plenty. Penang Monthly speaks to three coworkers about the many social and individual benefits they...

Techies Helping Others To Help Themselves

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We all know that Industry 4.0 is changing work processes and demanding new skillsets. This has led many local firms to work at reskilling and upskilli...

George Town Festival Tests the Digital Waters

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Teochew Puppet and Opera House is a long-time performer for GTF.PENANG WOULD HAVE been a hive of activity last July, with preparations in full swing for t...

A Literary Festival Celebrating Cosmopolitan Confluence

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Mikro-cosmos, an enduring connection forged through language, literature, words and ideas, informs the theme for the George Town Literary Festival this year, ha...

Grit, an Entrepreneur’s Currency

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“I THINK THE essential quality hasn’t changed, but at this point, it’s probably grit on steroids,” muses Tony Yeoh, CEO of Digital Penang (DP). We are discussin...

Penang’s Tourism Players Needing All the Resourcefulness They Can Muster

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“PIVOT” is a fashionable term in tourism these days. It suggests a need for recalibration as local players scramble to appeal to a different market...

Still So Much to Learn about Long Covid

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FOR IVY CHAN, January 2021 will forever be remembered as the time she had a close call with death. She had developed a fever just before Christmas, and afraid t...

Designing Solutions for Social Change

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LEARN. IMBIBE. REGURGITATE. These are hallmarks of rote learning and its derivatives are wide-ranging, from the attrition of critical and creative thinking to a...

Pet Healthcare Options in Penang

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ONE WOULD THINK that since afflictions such as gastrointestinal disorders, chronic kidney diseases and the Big C are suffered by both humans and mammals, that i...