April 2021

Laurence Loh: Raising Consciousness of Penang’s Heritage, Restoration by Restoration

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THE NAME LAURENCE Loh has over the past decades become synonymous to the conservation of cultural heritage, having saved many of Penang’s dilapidated hist...

A Rocky Road to Economic Recovery

7 min read

DISCUSSIONS AT THE Penang Economic Outlook 2021 webinar organised by Penang Institute on January 27, 2021 made it clear that industrialists and think tankers ar...

Letting Sound Play on Sight, and Vice Versa

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TO PARAPHRASE SHAKESPEARE, “If music is the food of love, paint on.”Visual artists in Malaysia are faced with a widening spectrum of creative expr...

How MBSP Keeps Seberang Perai Cleaner

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THERE IS A long-held perception that Penangites are averse to 3D (dirty, dangerous and difficult) employments. This opinion was put to the test when in 2011, cu...

Malay Folk Remedies Live On

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The therapy room at Bekam Klinikal Pulau Pinang.THE MALAY PROVERB tak lapuk dek hujan, tak lekang dek panas – not weathered by rain, not scorched by...

Aliya Abd Rahim

Penangite Launches Podcast Featuring Women Entrepreneurs

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MY LOVE FOR podcasts started almost a decade ago, when I bought my iPod from a duty-free shop at Changi Airport. Coming from an entrepreneurial background, my p...

Krista Goon

A School for Forward Tech Thinkers

6 min read

THE ROW OF heritage shop houses along Lebuh Acheh fronts a revolutionary school for new technologies. Forward School is the brainchild of tech aficionado Howie...

Aga Khan Trust for Culture Aiding the Restoration of George Town’s Northern Coastline

8 min read

Islamic Cairo. Al-Azhar Park, a 60 ha garden near the historic city (completed 2005). Photo: AKTCIN LATE 2013 representatives of the Aga Khan Trust for Cu...

Francesco Siravo