Cover Story - Penang Monthly (Page 4)

“Listeners Calling”: Radio Enters its Second Century in Malaysia

14 min read

IMAGINE BEING ON the lookout for new music in the prewar days, and you had already exhausted the collection of the local S. Moutrie and Co. Ltd., local agents o...

Pet Healthcare Options in Penang

9 min read

ONE WOULD THINK that since afflictions such as gastrointestinal disorders, chronic kidney diseases and the Big C are suffered by both humans and mammals, that i...

Continuing Penang’s Supply of World Sport Champions

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WHEN PLAYING FOOTBALL on the streets as a young lad, I always attempted to achieve Ronaldinho’s elastico or Ronaldo’s shimmy. Every kid in my neighbourhood was...

The Future Depends on the Creative Economy

11 min read

WHEN MICHELLE YEOH made history by being the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for her role in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and triggered a nationwide wa...

Saving Our Schools

16 min read

At the beginning of the 1964 school year, teachers in a California primary school were told that some of their students had shown extraordinary results on an...

Hwa Yue-Yi

Penang in the Age of Social Media

12 min read

In the twenty-first century, snail mail has become old school and social media platforms have taken over in connecting the world. The intricate term “so...

Speedy Growth for Cruise Tourism

14 min read

Cruise ships docking at Swettenham Pier.The weak ringgit, attractively priced hotels and George Town’s inscription as a Unesco World Heritage Site h...

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...

Are We Happy with Our Buses or Are We Not?

17 min read

Public transportation in Penang dates back to the 1880s, when the first steam-powered tram, measuring 12.5km, ran from Weld Quay jetty to Air Itam Road, with...

So What Are You Reading Today?

11 min read

The Prince of Wales Island Gazatte.Penang’s history of publishing is a remarkable one. In 1806, when it was made a Presidency of India, the first is...

Feeding Penang

16 min read

Penang – food haven par excellence. And it goes without saying that its people are a proud lot, fiercely defensive and boastful of their hybrid cuisines....

RIDING THE TECH TIGER

15 min read

Curry Khoo.I meet Curry Khoo for the first time at Starbucks in Auto-City in Juru. It is afternoon and I am actually running late – Google Maps is l...