The State of The Economy
10 min read
Let’s get it right. The Budget is a fiscal plan informing the people how the government intends to raise and spend money in fulfilment of grow...
Life on the List
14 min read
Puan Maimunah Sharif.ENOUGH TIME has now passed for PEM to start asking what the most signifi cant and most noticeable changes are. We also wish to find o...
Keeping Penang watered
15 min read
IT HAS BEEN a busy couple of months for the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP, more commonly referred to as PBA). On December 28, 2010, the water company c...
The Winning Formula: Why Investors Choose Penang
17 min read
TO A FIRST-TIME VISITOR Penang can feel like it’s stuck in a time warp, caught between its colonial trading past and electronic manufacturing heydays; san...
Innovating Up To Speed – Measuring Penang’s Innovative Capabilities
28 min read
RECENTLY, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the plan for the development of Greater Penang, which would comprise the state of Penang and exten...
Challenges for Malaysia’s Economy
11 min read
THE TOP MANAGMENT in leading industries in Penang has been getting more and more worried over the last few years. Some of the most important prerequisites for c...
George Town –Where Design and Culture Must Continue to Merge
10 min read
GEORGE TOWN CANNOT help telling a thousand tales. The “outstanding universal values” that emanate from its foundation of culturally informed design...
Making A City Liveable The Secret Is Economic Growth From Below
17 min read
The fuss about economic growth and citiesAccording to the Economic Intelligence Unit of The Economist, Vancouver topped the World’s Most Liveable Citi...
Paradise Being Lost, All Is Not Well on Penang’s Beaches
14 min read
“YOU CANNOT SIT HERE, I just realised that,” Juergen Bosch says, looking at our surroundings as if for the first time, though we’ve been...
Entering New Territory With Open Tenders
11 min read
“What we really are is anti-corruption.” — Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan EngBy and large, it has achieved its objectives. Yet at the sa...
Alive But Not Well, The State of Penang's SMEs
15 min read
Plenty has been written about Malaysia being locked inside the so called middle income trap. The view is that the country is too expensive to effectively compet...
Budget 2012 Reveals Malaysia’s Structural Problems
12 min read
Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods th...