Speedy Growth for Cruise Tourism
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Cruise ships docking at Swettenham Pier.The weak ringgit, attractively priced hotels and George Town’s inscription as a Unesco World Heritage Site h...
Eco-engineering Penang’s Coastline
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As the human population rises, coastal areas become increasingly developed: more than 40% of the world’s population and 60% of the world’s largest c...
Empowering the Hearing Impaired
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The World Health Organization reports that 360 million people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, and a staggering 32 million of these are children. In...
Teh Aik Lum: Jit Sin’s Dedicated Chairman
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Datuk Seri Teh Aik LumCan you briefly tell us about yourself?I was born in 1935 in Guangdong Province, China. I came to Malaya when I was 11 years old....
Tourist Arrivals and Hotel Occupancy in Penang
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Penang’s total number of hotel guests has steadily hovered at around six million since 2008, except in 2013. As can be seen from Figure 1, nearly half of...
Between Worlds, Contemplating Impressionism
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Good things come in twos, as a “2-in-1”, in what is the National Gallery Singapore (NGS)’s current art-peritif, under the banner of Century of...
“Placemaking” Penang’s Public Art
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In recent years, Penang has become famous for its creative street art. The eclectic murals, sculptures and art installations definitely upgrade Penang’s...
Sounds of the Archipelago Echo in Gamelan Melayu
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When I arrived for my first gamelan Melayu rehearsal at the Wak Long Music Centre in Penang, Mohd Jufry Yusoff, affectionately known as Cikgu Jufry, was already...
AIESEC Goes Rojak!
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AIESEC has been making its impact on the world since the Second World War, when a group of young people determined that cross-cultural understanding was essenti...
Is Penang Ready for the Coworking Movement?
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Coworking is not a new concept, especially among Penang’s workplace futurists and digital nomads. Pionereed by Brad Neuberg in 2005, the idea is to combin...
We Are Equal Only Through Our Vote
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Freedom cannot be understood apart from power. Like with all good dichotomies, it is never clear where the one turns into the other, or lives off the other.To...
Inspirational Lessons From Tony Fernandes
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It was fitting that I was flying high on a United Airlines flight to San Francisco when I read the new book by Tony Fernandes, group CEO of AirAsia, as he tol...
