That Little Wine Bar
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Penang’s at Little Wine Bar offered me just the kind of place I was seeking. An opportunity to “chillax” with friends and catch up on their pa...
Smoking opium in Penang, 1854
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It destroyed countless lives and countless families, and came to be associated with Chinese culture despite the trade being run largely by the British as part o...
In Awed Appreciation of PAGO-PAGO
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Dark Pago-Pago, oil on canvas, 1967.It is moot if so many Pago-Pago works of Malaysia’s great artist Latiff Mohidin can ever be assembled again unde...
Shaping George Town Festival
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How do you put together George Town’s biggest annual festival with very limited time, funding and space? That’s what Joe Sidek has to think about ev...
Cindy Gallop Connecting Change-makers
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Cindy Gallop would like to be remembered as somebody who changed the world, or at least as somebody who tried.
Attention, please! Public Health Services Need Improving
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When Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak visited Penang on December 8, 2012, he promised to build 20,000 a ordable condominiums and a monorail if the BN w...
Curing the Healthcare System
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As a matter of fact, public health and sanitation are included in the so-called Concurrent List, which theoretically means that that area of administration invo...
Off The Beaten Track in Hong Kong
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Hong Kong is not all concrete, and actually has quite a lot to offer to nature and outdoor enthusiasts. A favorite weekend pastime of Hong Kong inhabitants is hiking.
Legacies of Leprosy
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I first became interested in the Sungai Buloh leprosarium when I produced a documentary in 2007 about the people living there. Established in 1930, it used to be one of the biggest leprosarium in the world. It is now known as the National Leprosy Control Centre.
Penang Hospital for the Orient
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Nearly four years ago, a CNBC special report highlighted Malaysia’s rapidly expanding medical tourism sector. It was a surprise for many viewers that the US-based network focused on Penang’s private hospitals considering that Malaysia’s capital has 24 private hospitals compared to Penang’s 12.
Medical Tourism Revenue
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Medical tourism traditionally involved tourists cum patients from developed countries travelling to normally less developed countries to get treatment while o...
WU LIEN-TEH The Father of Modern Medicine in China
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Born in Penang in 1879 to a family of immigrants from Taishan, China, Dr Wu Lien-Teh received his primary and secondary education at Penang Free School. At 17,...