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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...

Iylia De Silva

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...

Malaysia as a Global Educational Hub: A Win-Win-Win Situation

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ACCORDING TO THE Ministry of Higher Education, there were 136,497 international students enrolled in Malaysia in 2019, with 93,569 enrolled in tertiary institut...

A Penang Comprador: “There Was Always Carlsberg beer in the House”

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TAN HENG SOON (1894-1962), a Straits-born Baba, was a comprador for the Danish East Asiatic Company, a prestigious European company established in 1897 by H.N....

Fishing for a Living: The Case of Pulau Aman

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Photos by Jay Penfold

The Social and Economic Impact of Rising Temperatures Expected to be Strong

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CLIMATE CHANGE IS a global phenomenon whose impact on different regions varies in intensity. The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change has identified sub-S...