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.
Sydney On October 28, 1914, the Germans disguised their ship as an Allied vessel and entered Penang harbour. Before their enemies could respond whe...
MANY OF US WILL remember for years to come the moment when we learned the news that Steve Jobs had died.For me, it was somehow strangely sublime; I was atte...
WE ARE LIVING in times beset by talk of financial difficulties all over the world.The Eurozone crisis continues to unfold with the economies of Spain, Greece...
The ins and outsA state’s financial statement is divided into three parts – consolidated revenue fund, consolidated trust fund and consolidated lo...
IN THE JUNE 2010 issue of this magazine, I published an article entitled “Butterworth remains the Ugly Duckling”. It was about the failure of the to...
Phee Boon PohIN 1992, Malaysia signed the United Nations’ Earth Summit Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Rio de Janerio. This gave r...
A week after the 2012 Malaysian Budget, the Penang Institute (formerly known as SERI) held its annual flagship event – the Post Budget Dialogue – to...
Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods th...
Water sports law to be enforcedThe Penang state government will begin to enforce the Personal Watercraft (Penang) Enactment 1999, following numerous jet-ski...
When you browse through a bookstore to search for books on cultural landscapes, it is not uncommon to find many that deal with the built environment, and how...
Today, the orchestra has some 80 members, playing everything from the violin to the oboe to the double bass. Its members consist of the young and the old, rangi...