Festivals in numbers

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Giving the people a say – it’s their money after all

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Sometime in December last year, at a forum on the state and national budget organised by Lee Khai Loon, the state assemblyman for Machang Bubok, I threw out a c...

by Steven Sim

Marina Mahathir: Malaysia is my colour movie

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Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir is the keynote speaker at the fifth George Town Literary Festival (GTLF), which takes place on November 27-29 . On a daily basis, M...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The strange rise and sudden fall of the Chinese stock market

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At the end of 2014, China had a very normal stock market1. Measured by the size of the stock market, China’s market capitalisation of US$4tril, close to 4...

by Herbert Poenisch

Herbert Poenisch

November 2015 Feature

Festivals of significance: A writer’s view of literary festivals

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We hardly heard any mention of them 20 years ago, but today it seems that every country, every town, every little village has one: yes, a Starbucks. But I&rsquo...

by Tan Twan Eng

Tan Twan Eng

November 2015 Feature

In Malaysia, every year is a year of festivals

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Timing is everything, and for local writer Keith Hockton to have released his book, Festivals of Malaysia, this year, well, one might have thought he had inside...

by Louise Goss-Custard

Louise Goss-Custard