Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 26)

Penang’s Tourism Players Needing All the Resourcefulness They Can Muster

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“PIVOT” is a fashionable term in tourism these days. It suggests a need for recalibration as local players scramble to appeal to a different market...

Hungry Ghost Celebrations Hugely Downsized

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THE SEVENTH MONTH of the Lunar calendar is often referred to as the month of the “Hungry Ghost”. Believers hold rituals and ceremonies to pay respec...

Pan Yi Chieh

Jeju and Penang: Two Islands, But Two So Very Different Bus Rides

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JEJU, PRESENT DAY: The electronic readout at the chrome and glass sheltered bus stop tells me my bus is two minutes away. The bus stop provides free Wi-Fi, so I...

Marc de Faoite

Building an App for a Crisis

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TO BUILD A properly functioning app for urgent public use is no small feat. Take for example the now defunct Penang Contact Tracer application, or PGCare for sh...

Enzo Sim

Is Penang Truly Inclusive for Persons with Disabilities?

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Ernest, Jia Hui and their eight-month-old daughter. Photo: Ooi Tze Xiong.LIVEABILITY IS VERY much a layered concept. Since the 1960s, discourse on city pl...

Penang through the Eyes of Young Resident Foreigners

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HAILED A RETIREE’S paradise, Penang welcomes expatriates from all over the world to call the state their home. But curiously – and excitingly &ndash...

Serving is a Sikh’s Legacy

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THE WADDA GURDWARA Sahib Penang runs a free community kitchen, and all are welcome to dine there regardless of religion, race, gender, age or social class. But...

Esther Ping Dominic

Pianist Foo Mei Yi: “Enjoyment of Music Makes the Musician”

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Foo Mei Yi. Photo by: Kaupo Kikkas“MY FIRST MEMORY of the piano was at a Yamaha Music School back in Seremban. I was touching four and my mother, wh...

Sarah Daniel Jacob

Will the Pandemic Raise Awareness of Penang’s Need for a Proper Concert Hall?

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THE PENANG PHILHARMONIC Orchestra (PPO) held its last publicised concert on March 1 before its plans for the year ahead was forced to be on a momentary interlud...

Penang Needs to Develop Public Appreciation of the Performing Arts

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EVEN BEFORE the Covid-19 outbreak, the performing arts in Penang were already struggling. In fact, if one considers the huge amount of artistic talent that is a...

Cher Yee Xin

Peri-urbanisation in Penang: A Potential to Exploit or a Threat to Overcome?

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PERI-URBANISATION DESCRIBES the transitional process of an area peripheral to urban centres, the end result of which boasts an interesting blend of rural and ur...

Buying a House in Penang to Retire To

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I HAVE TO admit, I have not always liked Penang. I had been somewhat fond of it, but this had been more for sentimental reasons; I met my wife there as an under...