From Free Port to Modern Economy. Economic Development and Social Change in Penang, 1969 to 1990

As a student, Derek Neoh was not keen on studying and homework. “But I had a strict father,” Neoh says, “and he always emphasized the importance of education.”...

THE SEMICON SOUTHEAST ASIA event hosted at Setia SPICE Convention Centre from 21 to 23 June 2022 is a part of the ongoing celebration of Penang’s 50th year of m...

ACTING AS a key entrepot for the Far East, Penang in the 19th and early 20th century flourished. The free port system that the British tended to impose in its p...