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Working Mums Struggle to Manage Movement Restrictions

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OF THE MANY ways Covid-19 has changed the lives of working mothers everywhere, being at home while working, and educating and caring for the children may be the...

Testaments of Their Times

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Jubilee Clock Tower in George Town, Penang.It is easy to tell the time today – you have it on your wrist, or in your pocket, or on your desk, o...

Rejoicing in George Town’s Diverse Rituals

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Kuah Li Feng.This year, the George Town Heritage Celebrations, held from July 6-8, highlights the rituals and festive events of the various...

Keepers of Heritage

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Suffolk House, the Carpenters’ Guild Loo Pun Hong, Han Jiang Ancestral Temple… the Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) has been a bastion for Penang&r...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Heritage

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It’s the word du jour, “heritage”. International organisations vote to acknowledge and list it (for protection purposes, among...

In Search of a Place to Call Home

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In Butterworth, 10-year-old Mohamed Noor is playing football with his friends in an alley behind a row of shophouses. The children are speaking fluent...

Not Just Passing Through: Marine Mammals Are Native to Our Northwestern Shores

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MANY MOONS AGO, as a young post-doctoral scientist just returned to Malaysia after a decade of studying abroad, I was looking for a site where I could begin my...

Blue Carbon: A Fragile Defence Against Climate Change

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LIGHT SPILLS ACROSS the still waters of Middle Bank, one of the largest groves of seagrass in the Strait of Malacca. Crabs and cockles find shelter beneath undu...