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Festivals in numbers

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2015 is the Year of Festivals for Malaysia. The tagline, “Endless Celebrations”, showcases Malaysia as a tourist destination with bountiful and dive...

by Penang Monthly

Making words perform art

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On November 27-29, the George Town Literary Festival will once again be back in town to colour Penang with the monochromatic black-and-white grandeur of the pri...

by Marco Ferrarese

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