Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 6)

Cohu’s VP Seeks to Revolutionise Penang’s Tech Future

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ONE MAN, one job, one company, one vision—this sums up Wai-Kong Chen’s career as an innovator of high-speed digital instrument design. Now, as Vice President of...

PDC: Sights Set On Further Growth For Penang

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PENANG HAS witnessed a remarkable economic transformation over the years, and at the heart of this evolution stands the Penang Development Corporation (PDC). Es...

Facing Mental Health Challenges in the Workplace

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DEPRESSION AMONG MALAYSIANS has been on the rise, with figures escalating from 1.8% in 2011 to 2.3% in 2020. Mental health expert and director of the Internatio...

Pawsitive Connections: Adopting Animal-Assisted Therapy in Malaysia

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OVER THE COURSE of history, our connection with animals has transformed in numerous ways, reflecting the varied cultural, social and economic settings of human...

Women’s Centre for Change: Protecting and Supporting Victims of Gender-based Violence

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ACHIEVING SOCIAL CHANGE is impossible through government intervention alone. The scale of contemporary social problems demands the engagement of multiple stakeh...

Penang’s Operatic Past: A Legacy of Passion and Dedication

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IT HAS BEEN two decades since the last big-scale Italian opera was staged in Penang and it is almost unthinkable now to imagine that this quiet little island wo...

Lights, Camera, Action: Penang’s Niche in Movie-Making

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CHEONG FATT TZE Mansion and Eastern & Oriental (E&O) Hotel were thrust into international spotlight in 2018, when Jon Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians premie...

Vulnerable and Exposed: Saw Teong Hin on the Travails of Filmmaking

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WHEN SAW TEONG HIN started his filmmaking career in KL, he began at the bottom rung. But to even get a foot in, he had to leaf through the Yellow Pages from A t...

Raging Against the Machine: Reflections on Pendatang, Abang Adik and Maryam Pagi Ke Malam

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WHAT DO (a) a family living in a speculative, segregated Malaysia; (b) two brothers squeezed into a Pudu flat and; (c) a woman of royalty who owns an art galler...

Art Exhibition Extraordinaire at the Ng Fook Temple

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CHINESE TEMPLES IN Penang serve as a place for worship, for ancestral prayers and for celebrations, such as the Mooncake Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Howe...

Embracing the Joy of Having Toys

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AS KIDS NOWADAYS gravitate towards tablets and gadgets, the toy market is being kept afloat mostly by adults. According to data from NPD Group, a huge number of...

A Pageant to Highlight Beauty’s Depth

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THE SAYING THAT beauty is only skin deep is evident in beauty pageantries. But one stands as an exception in Malaysia as it calls attention to the self-empowerm...