The Hefty Sacrifices Homemakers Make
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Thirty-nine-year-old Caroline Teoh is armed with a master’s degree in Business Administration and worked as a financial advisor in a multinational company...
Climate Change: A Timeless Concern
CLIMATE CHANGE. The phrase rings with an alliterative charm, yet it evokes a notion that is far from simple. It invites us to consider our relationship with the elements and the forces that govern our world.
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Justin Heyes.Executed well, comedy is as much an art form as music, dance, theatre and visual arts, requiring passion, inspiration, thoughtfulness and rel...
The Th’ng Tok: Dishes of the Long Table
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OVER SEVERAL CENTURIES, armadas of Chinese junks journeyed southwards with cargoes of coveted luxury goods and treasures, calling on ports along the Straits of...
Innovations in Traditional Food Manufacturing
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WHEN WE THINK about soy sauce and Chinese herbal soups, we often see images of family meals and comfort food. In Chinese families, a bowl of hot herbal soup and...
Kenduri in Kelantan: Collective Feasts to Commemorate Life's Many Events
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SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, human beings have felt the need to commemorate special occasions—be it as individuals or communities. We celebrate the universal experien...
Penang Food at a Crossroads
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PENANG’S STREET FOOD has always been a crowd- puller. Part of it has to do with Penang’s early history as a port. That inspired into being a smorgasbord of food...
Appreciating and Defending Penang’s Glorious Local Food Supply Chain
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MARKET SUNDAYS WITH Grandma was always an exhilarating experience. I am always a four-year-old when I gingerly shuffle across the slippery pitted concrete. The...
Will the Market for Art Ever be the Same Again?
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BRICK-AND-MORTAR art galleries are hugely impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic because of the lockdown and the consequent economic crunch.Poster of We...
A Malaysian Artist Under Lockdown in Italy
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May 4, 2020I’M WRITING THIS as a small shift begins to unlock the wheels of the Italian economy – the country has been in total lockdown since Mar...
Opening Art Up – An Island-wide Welcoming of the Public into the Studio
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It was a weekend not to be missed for art lovers and aesthetes. Open Studios Penang – a festival that celebrates the paint and brush, and the artists behi...
A Jungle in a Bottle, Anyone?
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Ever seen mosses and ferns inside a laboratory flask, and done a double take? What you would have been observing was a self-sustaining enclosed ecosystem &ndash...
Swedish Firm Brings ERP to Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs
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As businesses aim to increase productivity and decrease cost, having a reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is one way to ensure production factor...
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