Are Our Trishaws Doomed?
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THE END OF World War II introduced trishaws to Penang, and between the late 1960s and the early 1970s, more than 2,500 of these vehicles plied the streets of Ge...
Suffering the MCO in the Services Sector
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PENANG’S SERVICES SECTOR is a shadow of its former self. On top of an already flailing entertainment industry and a row of F&B outlets biting the dust...
Tourism Development is Now Everyone’s Business – and Responsibility
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COVID-19 HAS TURNED the tourism industry on its head. The concept Responsible Tourism previously only focused on people mitigating negative economic, environmen...
Upgrading Penang’s Shopping Possibilities
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THE SHOPPING MALLS Gurney Plaza and Gurney Paragon along the popular Gurney Drive seafront promenade form the backbone of Penang’s luxury tourism. They ca...
Still So Much to Learn about Long Covid
5 min read
FOR IVY CHAN, January 2021 will forever be remembered as the time she had a close call with death. She had developed a fever just before Christmas, and afraid t...
Tropical Spice Garden Evolves to Survive Covid-19
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PENANG HAS NO shortage of eco-tourism attractions. There is the Botanic Gardens, replete with a long history; the Penang City Park, formerly the Youth Park, whe...
Batu Lanchang Market Food Court Stays Afloat with Digital Ordering and Pick-up Service
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THE BATU LANCHANG Market Food Court may be decades old but the food vendors there are making sure the place does not close down because of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Covid-19 Complicates Retirement Plans
7 min read
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL crisis of 2008 had a brief negative impact – through asset values and inflation – on retirement savings, but luckily in Malay...
Parenting in a Pandemic: Tension, Stress and Guilt
5 min read
NO INSTRUCTION MANUALS nor guide books were available on “How to parent under lockdown”, especially not in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic....
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...
Lessons for the Education Sector to Learn from Covid-19
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AS OF APRIL 21 – at the height of Covid-19 – schools in 191 countries were forced into mass closure. An estimated 1.5 billion students globally were...
Digital Onboarding in Numbers
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION is a core focus area of Penang2030. To enhance the usage of digital technology among Penangites, the state government has implemented a v...