After 15 Rousing Years, The Penang Renaissance Still Resonates Clearly
We are at one of those self-appraising points in time when we—not only Penang Monthly, but also Penang Institute as a whole—stare hard into the rearview mirror in order to orientate our journey forward.
IT WAS the fire that did it.His entire office was burned to the ground, leaving nothing behind. “I lost everything,” Jimmy Lim said, his usual g...
Ooi Geok Ling: “It’s high time we stop promoting Penang primarily as a sun, sea and sand destination. We’re under-selling Penang if we resor...
Early 19th century views of Prince of Wales IslandPenang can lay claim to many firsts, but one of the most illustrious is that it was the place where the...
Fifteen years or so ago, Malaysia’s Second Industrial Master Plan introduced the strategy of “manufacturing plus-plus” which was fondly descri...
Susanna Helena Hernesniemi’s paintings (opposite page) often reflect a sense of disorientation and ambiguity of place.Strange how artists locate to...
THE PENANG OUTLOOK FORUM provides a platform for the assessment of Penang’s past achievements, present capabilities and future growth potential. This ye...
There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world today, and the number is growing. This means that the demand for safe, high-quality halal food will rise ast...
Petrina Lin Weilynn was born in Penang in 1986 and bundled to Hong Kong when she was just a few months old. Her father has been working at Hong Kong’s Sou...
Something that Malaysians have had to realise in recent months is that political power in the country has over the years become so centralised that local govern...
Both the state governments of Penang and Selangor announced in March this year that they had written separate letters to the Election Commission asking for loca...
Map of the Invisible World by Tash AwWhy has penang not produced a writer of note for more than two decades? The last Penangite who could be considered of...
Dr Goh Ban Lee speaking at the 1st Penang Blueprint Roundtable.At precisely 8.30pm the electric lights went out, blanketing the grounds of the Socio-Econo...