August 2022

As a student, Derek Neoh was not keen on studying and homework. “But I had a strict father,” Neoh says, “and he always emphasized the importance of education.”...

THE SEMICON SOUTHEAST ASIA event hosted at Setia SPICE Convention Centre from 21 to 23 June 2022 is a part of the ongoing celebration of Penang’s 50th year of m...

ACTING AS a key entrepot for the Far East, Penang in the 19th and early 20th century flourished. The free port system that the British tended to impose in its p...

PENANG BEGAN ITS industrial journey amid a challenging economic backdrop in the late 1960s; in 1967, the free port status of this trade-dependent entrepot was r...

THE MOUNT ERSKINE signal station was built for “the purpose of obtaining earlier communication with vessels entering the harbour”. Previously, incoming ships co...

ADAPTIVE REUSE, a term commonly used by architects, refers to extending the lifespan of old abandoned buildings by reusing the existing spaces for a new purpose...

IN INDONESIA’S kabupaten (regency) of Ponorogo, people tell the story of the mythical battle between their king, Kelono Sewandono and the magical lion-like crea...