FIRST TIME ARRIVALS to Penang as well as many Penangites are stunned not only by the construction “frenzy” of high rise residential buildings but...
A CAUCASIAN who claimed to be an expert asked Toya where the batik painting exhibition was, blithely unaware that he was looking at batik paintings! That was at...
The snaking line as participants register for the conference.THE ANNUAL ASTD International Conference is marketed and positioned as the place where s...
How the independent Federation of Malaysia would incorporate its various parts was not a given thing, and the issues up for negotiation in 1956–1957 wer...
FOR DELL MALAYSIA managing director Datuk Simon Wong, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an important facet of Dell’s corporate culture. Given Del...
IN A PEM column last year, I wrote extensively about local government elections and the laws and policies governing them in Malaysia. At that point, both the st...
A LONG TIME AGO, I was standing on a London tube platform watching rats scurry under the rails. Something caught the edge of my eye, a vaguely familiar beach...
WE TEND TO THINK OF the Baling Talks of 1955 as a serious attempt by the government to negotiate peace with the Communists.But if we were to study the actua...
A DELEGATION FROM the Indonesian National Heritage Trust, made up of architects, planners, archaeologists, heritage property owners, government officers, acad...
SOMEHOW heritage became an unquestionable value in itself in the everyday life of George Town ever since its Unesco World Heritage listing, and often there is n...
HANGING AROUND Lorong Kulit on a rainy evening isn’t everyone’s idea of an artsy night out; the area is better known for its daytime fruit stalls an...
GEORGE TOWN CANNOT help telling a thousand tales. The “outstanding universal values” that emanate from its foundation of culturally informed design...