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.
Will Penangites finally learn to use the mysterious orange object?“It’s not easy being green,” sang Kermit the Frog, it hasn’t bee...
The hamlet of Sungai Bakap used to be on the North- South trunk road, and when it was, it steadily flourished, together with its neighbours Simpang Ampat and...
Forlorn letterboxes in a Rifle Range block.When Khoo Cheng See started the House of Hope five years ago, she had no idea what she was getting herself into...
Any penangite born less than 40 years ago will not have known a Penang that was not a hub for the world’s electronics industry. Before the 1970s, the stat...
From the successful development of Korea’s steel and shipping industries to Israel’s software cluster, and from the US’s semiconductor giants...
Penang under the East India Company 1786-1858Andrew BarberAB&A. 2009; Hard cover;160 pagesReview by Ooi Kee BengThe salience of the approach Barber ch...
AS A MAJOR manufacturing country, Malaysia is necessarily a huge market for many imported commodities. It is important to clearly identify the more expensive im...
IN MARCH 2010, members of the PSDC Management Council were in Phuket for its highly important bi-annual Offsite Meeting. Such gatherings are now a tradition and...
ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL pillars of any modern democracy is a free mass media. It is through transparent and responsible reporting by independent journalists that...
Volunteers manning a barricade.FORTY-YEAR-OLD Lieutenant-Governor A.E.H. Anson, a veteran of the Crimean War, had just arrived in Penang to take up the ap...
Dylan PassmoreLIKE MOST CITIES, George Town has traffic problems. This is illogical as the city has less people today than say, 40 years ago. The populati...
LIAW YEW PENG could have been a doctor. His grades were good enough, and he enjoyed subjects like biology. Many of his peers had chosen to go into medicine. Car...