Timothy Choy - Penang Monthly

Need for Speed: Penang’s Broadband Dilemma

7 min read

It was not too long ago when the modem sang a dial-up tune every time I wanted to connect to the internet. Mum’s occasional phone call meant tha...

Timothy Choy

The Sharp Turn from Tourist to Traveller

5 min read

HAVE YOU SEEN bus-loads of tourists disembarking at places where you, as a local, wouldn’t personally patronise? It usually has some tell-tale sign: an obscure...

Timothy Choy

Eyes Set on Industry 4.0

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Major changes are coming. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the integration of physical and digital technologies, is underway. Within the manufacturing industry...

Timothy Choy

Embracing A.I.

9 min read

Campaign period in Malaysia can get rather overzealous.According to the World Bank, Malaysia’s economic growth will continue at a moderate pace over...

Timothy Choy Ng Peng Zui

Is Penang Daring and Techy Enough for the Digital Age?

12 min read

Digital technology is redefining the way we live. It used to be that businesses took years to establish a global footprint; today, such a presence can...

Timothy Choy

Making Affordable Housing an Economic Enabler

5 min read

Housing is a basic need. However, the Median Multiple approach developed by Demographia International considers houses in Penang to be unaffordable.1 According...

Timothy Choy Ng Kar Yong

More than Just Digital Buzzwords

5 min read

GLOBAL TRENDS ARE pointing towards the use of digital technologies as the new frontier of industry growth, with discourse centred on big buzzwords like artifici...

Timothy Choy

Locally Familiar, Globally Recognised

4 min read

MANY A TIME, the obvious complexities of everyday items elude us. Take the device many of us treat as extensions of ourselves: the mobile phone. CNBC estimates...

Timothy Choy