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“I Am Home”: Putting Social Harmony on Show
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FOR GENERATIONS, people from around the globe have come to Penang to make a better life for themselves and their families. Today, the descendants of these early...
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On Urbanity and Wealth, and the Future of the Countryside
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URBANISATION IS AN oft-cited sign of radical socio-economic changes in a country.The process at some point could be one of necessity, where the agricultural sec...
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