January 2019 - Penang Monthly

Ripples from the Sales and Services Tax

11 min read

The historic change of government on May 9, 2018 saw the removal of one of the previous administration’s most unpopular economic policies: the GST. Introd...

Numbers on the Penang Economy and Labour Force

3 min read

Penang’s gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita GDP have been growing steadily from 2012 to 2017, with average annual growth rates of 5.9% and 6.1% r...

Ng Kar Yong

Budget 2019: Balancing Fiscal Responsibilities and Economic Growth

4 min read

The 2019 Budget, the first budget under the new government, was tabled by Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng on November 2, 2018 in Parliament.With the theme &ldqu...

The Economy Remains Widely Robust

10 min read

According to the latest World Economic Outlook report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the global economy is expected to remain robust at 3.7...

Batu Gajah: The Forgotten Capital of Kinta

12 min read

Once a small village along the Kinta River, Batu Gajah rose to prominence in 1881 when it became the new river port for the Papan mines. Three years later, it w...

Koay Su-Lyn

A Glorious Age Passes in the World of Comics, Cartoons and Caricatures

7 min read

DEATH, to artists of some repute, is an immortality, the proverbial life-after-death, with the legacy of the largesse of works by the deceased defining the age,...

Young, Malay and Female

3 min read

In the Federal Constitution of Malaysia, all Malays are born Muslim. However, Merdeka Centre polling has shown that they tend to identify themselves by religion...

Ordinary people? No such thing!

4 min read

At the Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives – Everyday Stories of Inspirational Women book launch in November.Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives &nd...

Stories That Need Telling

4 min read

Womanhood, or more specifically, women and their relationship to men – either through family, marriage, the State or religion – form the crux of Say...

Women Thriving in the New Economy

6 min read

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail delivering her keynote address.What are the benefits of closing the gender gap in economic particip...

More Women in Politics Now!

10 min read

Women’s representation in politics is making progressive strides under the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government. Among the 55 Cabinet members, the coalition no...

Governing with a Vision: Part Two

14 min read

Step by Step Towards Gender InclusivenessBy Andrea FilmerChong Eng.Holding office since 1995 where she was the sole opposition representative in the s...

Andrea Filmer