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New Migrants Bring New Meals to Malaysia

9 min read

NO OTHER COUNTRY embodies the proverbial melting pot quite like Malaysia. As we know, this is most evident where its culinary diversity is concerned. Over centu...

Elroi Yee

How Food Price Increases Are Affecting Malaysians

1 min read

Footnotes:[1] According to UN Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO), undernourishment is defined as not consuming enough calories to maintain a normal, activ...

When Penang Was an Axis Submarine Base

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ON THE MORNING of 27 April 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser submarine I-29, codenamed Matsu, was sailing slowly through choppy waters up the M...

Breaking Down Budget 2024: Malaysia’s Path to Fiscal Consolidation, Economic Growth and Social Wellbeing

9 min read

BUDGET 2024, presented by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in parliament on 13 October 2023, and subsequently passed at the policy stage on 2 November 20...

Going Vegetarian

4 min read

First published by Pulau Pinang Magazine, a celebrated bi-monthly magazine that covered the culture, history, traditions and lifestyle of Penang. Edited by Khoo...

Let’s Talk About Men’s Mental Health

5 min read

“AFTER I WAS diagnosed, I felt insecure, and I worried about what people would think of me; my employees, my colleagues, my investors… I had all these doubts an...

Kristina Khoo-Rhodes

The Vibrancy, Variety—and Silent Endurance—of Indian Cultures on Show

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FARIZA ARIFFIN, a Muslim of Indian descent—who also happens to be my sister, had a eureka moment after watching a Chinese play at Auditorium A, KOMTAR, earlier...

Fadzrina Ariffin

Notional Treasures Hidden in Oral Traditions

5 min read

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH poetry has always been mercurial, fluctuating and ambivalent. I do not indulge in it as religiously as I do in essays, personal stories and...

Mohd Izzuddin Ramli

George Town and Adelaide Come Together Again

3 min read

IN THE ANNALS of modern Penang are a number of exceptional legacies left behind by the late Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu, such as the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Industrial...

Getting The Next Generation Excited About Cooking

6 min read

I HAVE A tugging fear that our culinary heritage might be slipping away. Food tastes are strongly influenced by a mother’s and grandmother’s cooking, and over t...

Dr. Ong Jin Teong

Serious Malnutrition in Malaysian Children

4 min read

ONE MAY THINK that in Malaysia, where food is easily available, malnutrition would not be a significant issue. The reality is not too far from grim, however. Th...

Dato’ Dr. Amar Singh HSS

Enjoying Extravagant Chicken Rice

5 min read

HAINANESE CHICKEN RICE is an often-overlooked Penang hawker delight among its celebrated cousins like Char Koay Teow and Laksa. Chicken rice can be found throug...

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