April 2015 - Penang Monthly

Penang’s aviation and maritime sectors by the numbers

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Penang International AirportPenang International AirportPenang International Airport is the country’s third busiest airport in terms of passenger tr...

Soldering a regional platform for semiconductors

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The annual Semicon Singapore event, a regional exposition of the semiconductor industry, has been taking place for the last 21 years. However, this time around,...

Ong Wooi Leng

Penang’s semiconductor industry moves from assembly to R&D

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Since the opening of Malaysia’s first Free Industrial Zone in the 1970s, Penang’s economy has been thriving, based on export-oriented labour-intensi...

Ong Wooi Leng

Seeing art in passing time and peopled space

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Lee: Engaging pioneering communities.Art today can involve the most ordinary of people doing the most ordinary of things, fulfilling the Beuysian dictum o...

Through the eyes of a refugee child

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When Universiti Malaya anthropology lecturer Kamal Solhaimi Fadzil began his project last year, he was not sure it would get anywhere. It seemed a tough job, an...

Carolyn Hong

Remembering Krishen Jit

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Krishen Jit was a history academic at Universiti Malaya and he sustained his “Talking Drama” column in New Sunday Times for many years. Thus, people...

Does Malaysia’s animation industry have a future?

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There is much to see when we look east. As kids, many of us would have wished for a robotic blue cat with a magic pocket, or at least a desk with a drawer that...

Ch’ng Chin Chin

The Athi Nahappan Report revisited Part 2: Local elections are part of a larger reform agenda

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The most cited recommendation of the Athi Nahappan Royal Commission of Enquiry must be the restoration of local government elections. Today, half a century late...

Koay Su-Lyn

A walk on the Cheapside

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Blink and you’ll miss it. Locksmiths and hardware shops obscure the entrance to a narrow alley just off the bustling Lebuh Chulia. Taking its name from a...

GST: Tiptoeing into structural deficit

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The factors behind the present volatility in the currency markets can be categorised into roughly three large themes. Firstly, after years of quantitative easin...

Lim Kim-Hwa

Papua New Guinea: where colours and cultures clash in peace

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In August and September each year, Papua New Guinea erupts in a dazzling flurry as crowds of men and women congregate in dance and music, draped in all the colo...

Bertrand Linet

Revolutionising cancer detection, one gene at a time

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Prof Datuk Dr Choong-Chin Liew has many feathers in his cap – studying under one of the co-founders of insulin being one of them. Liew is perhaps most fam...