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.
The advent of the digital era, characterised by seamless and instantaneous transfer of information and unprecedented levels of global interconnectedness, has se...
At the end of this month, we’ll be celebrating the 55th anniversary of our independence. For the occasion, I’m prompted to think about where we ar...
It may be the top man’s vision but it is people like Jeff Ooi who are pounding the pavement in order to fulfil the promise of free WiFi service for Penang...
You were instrumental in establishing Shark Savers here in South-East Asia. How did you get involved with the organisation?I’m a diving instructor, so t...
As the global economy grows more and more uncertain, the last thing the Penang Development Corporation (PDC) needed was a multinational corporation telling them...
The George Town Festival 2012, under the directorship of Joe Sidek, opened on June 15, under a “starry starry night” with a spectacular performanc...
Ooi Kee Beng: Let’s discuss the recent rise of civil society activism in Malaysia. We had a half-year of rallies in mid-2007, starting with 600 people f...
A TASTE OF BELONLet's start with the Belon oysters. Belon is a river in France where these juicy oysters were originally found. "These wild oysters are as pow...
Penang is in a property boom at the moment with a record number of development projects being found on both the island and the mainland. This trend will most...
He is fastidious to a fault. Notorious for his creative conceit and an excruciatingly slow burning developing process (“I am a process photographer,&rdquo...
The book also intriguingly states that when Francis Light in 1786 settled in Penang, an island thought by the Europeans to be uninhabited, “he found 58...
Public housing in East Asia has traditionally been distinct from European social housing. A Unitary system in Western Europe stems from a conception of social w...