Indeed, becoming literate used to be one of the best career moves anyone could make. In ancient China for example, extended families would concentrate their r...
I shall tell you a secret. Whenever in Dublin, I actually prefer browsing through bookstores to bumming down at a public house for a piece of steak washed dow...
SOCIOLOGY IS THE study of how a certain society functions, and central to that ambition is the study of how different genders relate to each other in that socie...
Like people in most developing countries, Malaysians suffer automobiles not only as a necessary tool for modern living, but as a purported key driver of the e...
The revamped PEM has now been around a year since the preview issue came out in September 2009. The response has been consistently good.As we expected, imme...
The biggest trick that the nation-state concept has pulled on modern man is the proposal that there is an essential line between the external and the internal...
A friend once desperately and exasperatedly wished to know what he had been in earlier lives.“Why?“ I asked him with half a mind.“Well,&rd...
A cover on migrant workers raises a lot more questions than we can hope to answer in a monthly magazine. But it is a worthy attempt nonetheless. We really nee...
Ethnocentrism is not the opposite of multiracialism. For some reason, we tend to suppose it to be so. The truth of the matter is, the contradistinction betwee...
It has become more and more palpable to scholars that the geography of a place, with the attendant peculiarities of terrain, climate, water supply, transport,...
Urbanisation is not a process that people in Penang think about.This is not strange, since British George Town came into being in 1786 for trading and strat...
The revamped Penang Economic Monthly marks the beginning of reawakening Penang's potential. It’s about remembering its past, rethinking its future, and rebuilding a vibrant, innovative Penang.