April 2010 - Penang Monthly

Capital movements and Penang’s manufacturing sector

11 min read

BUSINESS NEWS in the past few months has highlighted concerns about capital flight – how Malaysia’s foreign reserves have fallen sizeably despite a...

Placing Penang in Asia

3 min read

AS A CITY, Penang has gone from being one of Asia’s most important metropolises to being an increasingly insignificant part of Malaysia. In that, it pai...

Liew Chin Tong

Penang blueprint

2 min read

THE MALAYSIAN ECONOMY is at a crossroads; it has stopped being a high growth economy and is no longer a low-cost centre. Furthermore, the global economy is a ve...

A focus on female artists

9 min read

FOR NG KIM HEOH, 2010 presents new challenges and an uncertain future. After years of teaching and working her way up to the post of senior assistant in a sec...

Getting the private healthcare sector into shape

3 min read

WHERE HEALTHCARE is concerned, be it the public or private sector, the focus has to be on improving delivery systems and keeping costs low. The public sector, c...

Qigong instructor promotes spontaneous health

4 min read

Nai has done everything, from construction to computer repairs. Now, he’s found a new calling.PENANG is the only state in Malaysia where people of C...

Betting on better public transport

7 min read

THE IMAGE OF a CEO with a full business suit opting to hop onto an LRT or monorail instead of taking his chauffeur-driven car is not one we Malaysians can eas...

Replanning Malaysia’s town planning

5 min read

An apartment in Paya Terubong.THE TANJUNG BUNGAH Residents’ Association in Penang has been campaigning against development on hill slopes in the vic...

Beating childhood learning difficulties

13 min read

DESPERATE and helpless, Mei Sing searched for professional help and friends recommended the BOLD-PSDC Centre in Island Park (Bureau on Learning Difficulties), P...

Rising from the ashes

8 min read

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...

Taking tourism to the next level

16 min read

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...

A defensive psyche is colonialism’s legacy

2 min read

It has become more and more palpable to scholars that the geography of a place, with the attendant peculiarities of terrain, climate, water supply, transport,...