April 2011 - Penang Monthly

Cities, People & the Economy: A Study on Positioning Penang

6 min read

PENANG HAS ALWAYS had to depend on its people for economic survival. For the last 40 years, this has been achieved through a development model focused on medium...

Hoy Cheong the Art-ivist

9 min read

Playing For A Dying Mother, based on a painting by Puvis de Chavannes, for the Lyons Biennial in 2008.HE MAY NOT HAVE done a painting in 20 years, but his...

Dr Juergen Schloesser: Everything possible, nothing easy

5 min read

What is the management rotation system like at the B.Braun headquarters? What determines which individual gets posted for international assignments?We look fo...

Eco-towns – The Asian Experience

5 min read

OPINIONS VARY WHEN it comes to the definition of an Eco-town; essentially, an Eco-town is a township that incorporates environmental protection and management p...

Memories of Penang Hill

4 min read

Leith (1775–1842) was the Governor of Prince of Wales Island from 1800 to 1803. Immediately after he took up this position, he successfully negotiated w...

The Many Sides of Good City Living

7 min read

ONE OUT OF TWO people in the world already lives in a city today. In 40 years, seven out of 10 will be doing that. Rapid urbanisation around the world has put t...

Best Step Forward For Public Transport

5 min read

IT IS A FAMILIAR SIGHT: every working day, right after quitting time, the Penang Bridge is filled with thousands of cars (with plenty of empty passenger seats...

Improving Penang’s wet markets

4 min read

DESPITE THE GROWING popularity of air-conditioned and generally clean shopping malls, wet markets still exist in Penang. Not only that, they are still popular m...

The Vast Potential of Gender Responsive Budgeting

8 min read

PENANG'S AMBITION TO BE an international city has a number of implications and Penang’s Chief Minister, Lim Guan Eng has acknowledged the need for, amongs...

James Lochhead

Giving Guests More

7 min read

MARCO GIOVANNI BATTISTOTTI is a familiar face in the Penang hotel scene. A larger than life figure, figuratively and literally speaking, the half-German half-It...

Penang’s Investment Numbers

9 min read

Introduction“There are no free rides” as the saying goes. To have output and growth, we need to make investments. Sir Roy Harrod in 1939 and Evsey...

Ong Wooi Leng

The Winning Formula: Why Investors Choose Penang

17 min read

TO A FIRST-TIME VISITOR Penang can feel like it’s stuck in a time warp, caught between its colonial trading past and electronic manufacturing heydays; san...