Will 2017 Crow or Croak?
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Advertisement2016 has been a year of surprises and shocks. Uncertainty became the new normal, as a combination of factors – Brexit, Trump's Whit...
Penang Malays: Icons of Reform and Tolerance
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AdvertisementMuch of the discussion concerning Malays in Penang since Merdeka, spurred by the federally controlled Malay language mainstream media, ha...
Events
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ExhibitionLondon-based Penang artist James Sum will showcase 100 of his best works in James Sum’s Retrospective Exhibition. Sum was awarded the...
The Think Tank Turns Twenty
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Penang Institute, which publishes Penang Monthly, turns 20 this year. Established in 1997 as the Socio-economic and Environmental Research Institute (SERI), the...
Learning Mutual Respect May Be Easier Than We Think
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How does one show respect? How does one show tolerance? How does one show acceptance? These are important questions to answer when the ethnic and religi...
The Enemy that is Ourselves
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Compilations of articles have in the past decade been a popular format through which political analyses and discussions about Malaysia are publicised. T...