Light at the End of the Covid Tunnel
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ON FEBRUARY 24, then-premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin became the first Malaysian to be inoculated with the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine; this marked the start of th...
Introducing the Penang Walk Zones Project
10 min read
IF THERE IS one motto that Penang Monthly can use to describe its mission and vision, it is "Knowing Penang". That means capturing to the best of its ability al...
Online Schooling: A Necessity that is Not Yet a Virtue
7 min read
CAN ONLINE CLASSROOMS reap the equalising benefits of Education that previously eluded traditional learning? Or will it share the same fate? Whether it was read...
How Far on Your Digital Journey Have You Come?
9 min read
PENANG’S GOAL OF becoming a Smart State is still a nascent one since the concept itself still lacks a single universally acknowledged definition, tending...
“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
9 min read
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...
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...