Democracy is essentially local
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Penang Monthly
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Federalism going down the toilet
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Something that Malaysians have had to realise in recent months is that political power in the country has over the years become so centralised that local govern...
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In search of good Penang fiction
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Map of the Invisible World by Tash AwWhy has penang not produced a writer of note for more than two decades? The last Penangite who could be considered of...
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