Healing Penang Hill
6 min read
The railway track was badly affected by the landslide and the funicular train service was suspended.The freak storm on the night of November 4 battered Pe...
The Storm that Shook Penang
23 min read
Every time it rains now, Penangites get skittish – and for good reason. It has been five months since the freak storm hit the state. The storm of November...
How are Art Fairs Faring?
7 min read
Latiff Mohidin's Provoke (oil on board, 1964).Pagoda II (oil on canvas, 1964).Malam Merah (Red Night) (oil on canvas, 1968)....
Mayor of the World
8 min read
Dato' Maimunah Mohd Sharif with the children of Mathare.On December 22, 2017, the mayor of Penang, Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif, was appointed Executi...
Outraged Enough to Go Vote or Cynical Enough to Stay Home?
12 min read
So many bizarre and inconceivable things have happened in recent years to damage Malaysia’s international reputation and self-image that, for a mortified...
Penang Pushes on with Flood Mitigation
9 min read
2017 was a challenging year, and it was no exception for state executive councillor Chow Kon Yeow.Heading the Flood Mitigation portfolio for the state (along...
Can the Erasure of Malaysian Arts be Reversed?
5 min read
What does Malaysian literature mean today, and what is required for a work of literature to be considered national literature? Can literature in Chinese, Tamil...
Taking the Next Step in Travel
6 min read
Yeoh Siew Hoon made a career out of her love for travel.Penang lass Yeoh Siew Hoon, a prominent figure in the Asia Pacific tourism industry, has enjoyed s...
Coworking – Much More than Just Sharing Office Space
7 min read
The word may sound wrong, but Penang had better get used to the idea of “unconferences”. The fourth annual edition of Coworking Unconference (CU) As...
Redefining and Refining Urban Living
6 min read
The World Urban Forum (WUF) was established by the UN in 2001 as “a nonlegislative technical forum”.1 Serving as an international conference focusin...
Hang Tuah and the Keris Which Heals the Wound it Caused
13 min read
The story of Hang Tuah fascinates me. But to the question of whether he existed or not, I do not have an answer. However, that does not at all affect my interes...
Time for Malaysians to Show Power
6 min read
A question commonly posed to me is what made me decide to choose politics as a vocation.I wonder about it myself sometimes. Although it may not appear to...