Leaving the Island for Greener Pastures
5 min read
Moving from Penang Island to the mainland might have been deemed foolhardy a mere decade ago, but today, drawn by new and attractive development projects, quali...
Sustainability Starts Where We Stand
13 min read
In October 2018 the Penang state government became the first state in Malaysia to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the United Nations Human Settlem...
Losing the Religion that is Social Media
5 min read
Religious Elegance.City of Many Tales.It’s a tech-warped world we’re operating in today. The increasing number of social med...
Homemaking Fathers
4 min read
David* was working in a management consultancy when his first child, a daughter, was born. “My wife and I believed that we needed at least one parent at h...
The Digital Journey Begins for Many Industries
7 min read
The digital wave of innovations has compelled industries across the board to digitise their operations and services to not only remain modern and rele...
Are Our SMEs Ready for Smart Solutions?
4 min read
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of Penang’s manufacturing industry, yet many are still very much rooted in tradition, applying proce...
Mak Yong – A Rich Regional Tradition under Threat
8 min read
Mak Yong performances of the old usually last for a week or more.The ancient, ritualistic folk theatre Mak Yong was declared a Masterpiece of the Oral and...
Malaysia’s Refugees Are Not People in Transit
7 min read
Rohingya children.It’s difficult to tell apart a refugee and an asylum-seeker from an undocumented migrant or even a trafficked person; we are incli...
Writing the Cycles of Womanhood
2 min read
Provocative with a generous dash of genius, Hiromi Ito gained prominence in the Japanese literary scene in the 1980s. Among her English readers, Ito is best kno...
Listen! Are Those Not Sounds of Borneo Echoing Down the Streets of Penang?
4 min read
With a name like Sada Borneo, one would think that the band had its start in Sarawak. But guess again.Sada Borneo was in fact formed in Penang, more specifica...
Embracing Life Despite Cancer
5 min read
At 17, Alicia Ong was excitedly on the precipice of adulthood when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), or in her words “the good s...
Telling Tales that Mesmerise, Provoke and Inspire
5 min read
Kamini Ramachandran, as a profession, enchants many with the tales she tells, carefully plucked from the expansive repertoire she inherited from her maternal gr...