End Vaccine Apartheid
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VACCINE COSTS HAVE pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue, with most low-income ones not even lining up. Worse, less vacc...
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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Still So Much to Learn about Long Covid
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FOR IVY CHAN, January 2021 will forever be remembered as the time she had a close call with death. She had developed a fever just before Christmas, and afraid t...
Light at the End of the Covid Tunnel
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ON FEBRUARY 24, then-premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin became the first Malaysian to be inoculated with the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine; this marked the start of th...
Absorbing the Ambience of the Peninsular North by Train
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THERE IS SOMETHING romantic about railways. In Penangite Wan Phing Lim’s essay, Slowly, Slowly into the Night, she documented her journey from Johor to Bu...
A Brief History of Money in the Malay Peninsula
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BEING A PLACE where the winds meet, the Malayan Peninsula has witnessed the use of many types of currency. For example, the Malacca Sultanate made use of wang p...
An Updated Classic to Remind Us of Malaysia's Cultural Splendour
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THE BABA OF Melaka: Culture and Identity of a Chinese Peranakan Community in Malaysia is an updated edition of a book originally published in 1988, written by M...
Farizan bin Darus: Disruptions Await Society and the Civil Service (Part Two)
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THIS IS PART Two of an interview Penang Monthly's editor Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng had with Dato' Seri Haji Farizan bin Darus on April 15, 2021. Farizan retired as...
Malaysia’s Top 100 Auction Lots Across the Decade
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Ibrahim Hussein’s Man with Possessions, 1964. Oil on canvas (122 x 122cm).WHO IS THE No. 1 Artist in Malaysia?Going by the market record of prices...
Tropical Spice Garden Evolves to Survive Covid-19
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PENANG HAS NO shortage of eco-tourism attractions. There is the Botanic Gardens, replete with a long history; the Penang City Park, formerly the Youth Park, whe...
The Middle Bank Can Anchor a Green Future For Penang
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AIR PASANG PAGI, surut pukul lima (a high tide in the morning, ebbs at five) is a traditional Malay pantun (poem) that describes tidal movements in Penang. Over...
Penang's Walkability in Numbers
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A STUDY BY Stanford University from 2017 found Malaysia to be among the most inactive nations.1 It ranked third-last in the average number of steps taken per da...
Introducing the Penang Walk Zones Project
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IF THERE IS one motto that Penang Monthly can use to describe its mission and vision, it is "Knowing Penang". That means capturing to the best of its ability al...
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