Where Does the Line Go in “Sharenting”?
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“SHARENTING” CAN BE defined in dual terms. One, as a congregation for parents on social media to share experiences and stories of their children in exchange for...
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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Penang-born Precision Engineering Firm Continues Moving Up the Value Chain
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KOBAY TECHNOLOGY HAS as its core business highprecision engineering, with peripheric tradings in property development. It was founded as Polytool Technologies i...
Growing Pains for Penang’s Gaming Industry
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WHEN MALAYSIA ANNOUNCED its first lockdown last March, gamers scrambled to purchase video game CDs and game consoles, with retailers like Game Tag and Impulse G...
A Brief Explanation of Content and Algorithms on Social Media
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YOU ARE SITTING at your computer reading about an 8-year-old earning millions on YouTube, while another 20-something-year-old just became the next international...
The Swelling World of the Influencer
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INFLUENCER CULTURE HAS become a major phenomenon. Scroll through your Instagram feed and most likely for every third photo you see, a “sponsored post” will appe...
Grit, an Entrepreneur’s Currency
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“I THINK THE essential quality hasn’t changed, but at this point, it’s probably grit on steroids,” muses Tony Yeoh, CEO of Digital Penang (DP). We are discussin...
Surveying the Lower Slopes of Penang Hill
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AFTER THREE MONTHS of the many MCO phases, Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow finally announced that recreational parks and hiking spots were to be reopened on...
ESCAPE – Making Tourism Sustainable by Maintaining High Standards
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TUCKED DEEP IN Teluk Bahang is the kampung-concept theme park ESCAPE, the brainchild of chief ESCAPE officer Sim Choo Kheng. Inspired by his childhood adventure...
Helping George Town Businesses Go Digital
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A LIFESTYLE SWITCH can be difficult, which is why the “George Town in the New Normal” project was introduced. To cope with the economic toll brought...
Penang’s Tourism Players Needing All the Resourcefulness They Can Muster
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“PIVOT” is a fashionable term in tourism these days. It suggests a need for recalibration as local players scramble to appeal to a different market...
Hungry Ghost Celebrations Hugely Downsized
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THE SEVENTH MONTH of the Lunar calendar is often referred to as the month of the “Hungry Ghost”. Believers hold rituals and ceremonies to pay respec...
Jeju and Penang: Two Islands, But Two So Very Different Bus Rides
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JEJU, PRESENT DAY: The electronic readout at the chrome and glass sheltered bus stop tells me my bus is two minutes away. The bus stop provides free Wi-Fi, so I...
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