Hiking through Penang Island’s “Down Under”
by
Rexy Prakash Chacko
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The B-Movie – A Welcomed Mental Asylum
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I DON'T LOVE them; I don’t hate them. But I think they are indispensable. They are very much a necessary by-product of the film industry, the way any form of ar...
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Which Came First, the Chneh Hu or Pasembur?
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FRIENDS AND RELATIVES from the post-war generation would remember the famous chneh hu stall at Padang Brown. Unfortunately, the stall is no longer there. There...
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