Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 25)

Keeping Alive Penang’s Reputation as a Jewellery Design Centre

9 min read

RETURNING CUSTOMERS ARE always welcome, even if they arrive to the little shop at the corner of the KOMTAR Gold and Jewellery Centre with a list of detailed spe...

Penang’s Gold and Jewellery Trade: A Generational Shift is at Hand

6 min read

THE SUDDEN MARCH rush to buy gold took even Penang’s seasoned jewellers and goldsmiths by surprise. A few timely factors had converged, such as the loosening of...

Anecdotal Accounts of Chinese Women Migrants to Southeast Asia

5 min read

In Penang Monthly’s Campbell Street-themed issue, we explored how the street gained infamy as a prostitution hub (see August 2021, A Red-light District Worthy o...

Dr. Kuah Li Feng

The Poetics and Politics of Main Puteri

5 min read

WITH TROUBLED THOUGHTS, Din Puteri leans against a corner post of the balai, next to a row of trays filled with offerings of eggs, yellow glutinous rice, banana...

Mohd Izzuddin Ramli

A Literary Festival Celebrating Cosmopolitan Confluence

5 min read

Mikro-cosmos, an enduring connection forged through language, literature, words and ideas, informs the theme for the George Town Literary Festival this year, ha...

Where Does the Line Go in “Sharenting”?

4 min read

“SHARENTING” CAN BE defined in dual terms. One, as a congregation for parents on social media to share experiences and stories of their children in exchange for...

Priyanka Bansal

Growing Pains for Penang’s Gaming Industry

4 min read

WHEN MALAYSIA ANNOUNCED its first lockdown last March, gamers scrambled to purchase video game CDs and game consoles, with retailers like Game Tag and Impulse G...

A Brief Explanation of Content and Algorithms on Social Media

6 min read

YOU ARE SITTING at your computer reading about an 8-year-old earning millions on YouTube, while another 20-something-year-old just became the next international...

The Swelling World of the Influencer

3 min read

INFLUENCER CULTURE HAS become a major phenomenon. Scroll through your Instagram feed and most likely for every third photo you see, a “sponsored post” will appe...

Grit, an Entrepreneur’s Currency

3 min read

“I THINK THE essential quality hasn’t changed, but at this point, it’s probably grit on steroids,” muses Tony Yeoh, CEO of Digital Penang (DP). We are discussin...

ESCAPE – Making Tourism Sustainable by Maintaining High Standards

4 min read

TUCKED DEEP IN Teluk Bahang is the kampung-concept theme park ESCAPE, the brainchild of chief ESCAPE officer Sim Choo Kheng. Inspired by his childhood adventure...

Helping George Town Businesses Go Digital

3 min read

A LIFESTYLE SWITCH can be difficult, which is why the “George Town in the New Normal” project was introduced. To cope with the economic toll brought...

Esther Ping Dominic