December 2015

Small acts of courage to make the world a better place

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If he was not a household name before September 2, 2014, he should have become that after he, on that day, became the first academician in Malaysian history t...

When art espouses politics…

5 min read

Apart from performing at many formal events, The BangsArt is also active playing on the streets to raise funds.University students used to be active in th...

Mohd Izzuddin Ramli

The high life: Growing up on the peak

7 min read

From George Town, Penang Hill is a quiet presence, a thought that barely registers even as it looms in the background. It appears intermittently throughout the...

A bungalow on the Hill

6 min read

The first structures to appear on top of Penang Hill were almost certainly a flagstaff for signalling the arrival of shipping, together with a small building to...

Mike Gibby

Malaysia – Where politics must be ethnically inclusive and exclusive at the same time

5 min read

What any Malaysian knows at heart is that the Malay community will always dominate the politics of the country. This means in concrete terms that Malaysia&rsquo...

Penang as an entrepreneurial state

12 min read

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng at the T. S. Eliot lecture theatre, Merton College.Penang is the second smallest state in Malaysia, with a land size of only 1...

Lim Guan Eng

The renewal of Butterworth continues

6 min read

First of all, art is creation. A meaningful passage between the inner sensibilities of an artist and the outer world. A process that leads individuals to unleas...

One Heck of a Hill

11 min read

Visitors to Flagstaff Hill – the traditional name for Penang Hill – have more than doubled in the last five years. There may have been some complain...

Matthew Tan Kiak Hin

Carolyn Hong

A hike to the top via Moongate

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Every hiker in Penang feels the irresistible urge at some point to climb to the highest point in Penang, and so they embark on one of the many routes leading to...

Louise Goss-Custard

Small acts of courage to make the world a better place

When art espouses politics…

The high life: Growing up on the peak

A bungalow on the Hill

Malaysia – Where politics must be ethnically inclusive and exclusive at the same time

Penang as an entrepreneurial state

The renewal of Butterworth continues

One Heck of a Hill

Penang Hill at a glance

Calmness caught in epic colours

Christmas in the mountains of Sarawak

A hike to the top via Moongate