Our Food Goes Wherever We Go
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Totem Park Maggi Mee (Dormitory version)Ingredients:1 x packet of Maggi Mee1 x eggInstructions:Boil water. Pour into rice cooker and turn on.A...
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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Economy Rice Stalls – A Digest of Malaysian Struggles
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On the surface, the concept of economy rice is deceptively simple. You will always recognise the economy rice stall. There will be a simple buffet-style display...
Permaculture – No Green Thumb Required; Just Passion
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My grandfather had a garden where he planted flower bushes, fruit trees, vegetables and herbs. Before I was born, he reared chickens and geese, but I suppose he...
Dikir-Dangdut and the Defiant Spirit of Kelantanese Women
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ROSALINDA KEPT HER head down and her eyes fixed on the floor as she walked out of the Gua Musang Lower Syariah Court in June 2014. Hot on her heels was a throng...
Jawi Pekan Cuisine – Unique to Penang, Yet So Evocative of Other Foods
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Along Lebuh Armenian, where the Jawi Pekan – or Jawi Peranakan – traditionally settled, is the family-run Jawi House establishment. Chef Nurilkarim...
A Bright Future Awaits Oyster Farming in Penang
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A farmer handling baskets of oysters.Before the 1980s, oysters in Malaysia were mainly cultivated in the wild, harvested between mangrove roots and expose...
James Dollery Fettes of Penang Waterworks: A Life of Civil Engineering and Service (Part Two)
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DURING A MEETING on 30 April 1909, the President of the Penang Municipal Commission, James Wilson Hallifax, asked Leonard Moore Bell how long “the new engineer”...
Antibiotics in Animal Feed May Be on the Way Out
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WE ARE WHAT we eat, as the saying goes. We keep diligent tabs on our food consumption by studying food labels for their ingredients, nutritional values and bene...
A Future for Fig Farms in Malaysia
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RESEARCHERS FROM the School of Biological Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have developed tissue culture techniques to produce healthy fig pl...
CPO Shuhaily Zain: To Lead Is to Train (Part Two)
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IN FEBRUARY 2023, Penang Monthly published the first part of an interview with Dato’ Mohd Shuhaily Mohd Zain, the Chief Police Officer of Penang, which was titl...
Hawkers in Passing – Personal Accounts and Short Stories on Berita Harian in the 1960s
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IN 1963, a student essay for a weekly writing competition, held by Berita Harian, dubbed the bicycle the ”economic vehicle”. The author Yeow Peng Keat contempla...
USM Research Finds Worrying Infections in Penang’s Nutmegs
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Photo 1: A nutmeg tree in one of the fields in Penang.THE NUTMEG IS one of the most widely cultivated fruits in Penang, using an area of more than 50 hect...
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