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.
When i took over as executive director for the Socio-Economic and Environmental Research Institute (SERI) 10 months ago, my goal was to bring the Penang think t...
Ho Eng Seng returned to Penang in 1986 from Stanford University with degrees in Anthropology and Economics. The timing was bad, however. The country was in th...
An intellectually-disabled person working in a retail outlet.Disabled people in the Malaysian workforceMalaysia is signatory to numerous conventions on...
Property prices in Penang have skyrocketed in recent years, particularly in the northeastern region of the island, and young Penangites now face the prospect of...
Datuk Tay Hooi Keat, “Weld Quay, Penang”, 1968-80, 60 x 90 cm, oil on canvas.Cecil Rajendra is a pioneering human rights lawyer and acclaimed...
There is a policy document, I am told, that says 40% of Penangites shall, in the near future, be living on the island and the other 60%, on the mainland. One...
Abdullah Ariff , “After the storm”, 1956, 38 x 56cm, watercolour.At the first Henry Butcher (HB) Art Auction Malaysia, the profile of pioneer...
2010 promises of economic transformation in Malaysia. The key message is loud and clear – Malaysia must not become a middle-income country which loses its...
Ooi Phaik Choo has not always been a hawker. She was formerly a seamstress but now sells pork innard porridge with her husband, Woo Yew Weng, a former electrici...
Ever since the PDC was formed in 1969, it has spearheaded Penang’s development into a modern economy. The PDC’s groundbreaking industrialisation eff...
EMILY OF EMERALD HILL is a classic drama that traces the life, loves, travails (and recipes) of an overbearing Singaporean Nyonya trapped in her gilded cage. Th...
Penangites are a lucky lot. Besides luxuriant hills, a city centre worthy of being classed a Unesco World Heritage Site and endless tasty street foods, they get...