Socio-economic Inequalities
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Imbalances of income distribution across states of MalaysiaWhile Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis and Kedah show the least uniform income distribution in 2004,...
Making It Hard To Ignore Complaints
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The thing about democracy is that there are no experts. It assumes that a decision for a public action cannot be made in isolation without everyone who is invol...
Penang and East Sumatran Ports 1824
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The volume is a good reminder of what the cultural, commercial and political diversity in the Straits of Malacca looked like before late colonial empire-build...
Strawalde Painting on Auction for PHT
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The work titled “Penang I” was done during the 81-year-old artist’s one-month stay at Rebecca Owens’ China Tiger apartments at China Str...
Sketch Where You Stand
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Ch'ng Kiah Kiean. No one pulls rank as everyone has the Koo Soo Kwong Choon Tong, Muntri Street (Chinese ink and watercolour on paper).A quirky trend of o...
MPPP to Host Top Tourism Forum
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Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and MPPP president Patahiyah Ismail (right) launching the Penang TPO brand on April 15 this year.One of George Town'...
Safeguarding Penang’s Water Supply
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Consider the facts. Of all water on earth, only 2.5% is fresh water and the remaining 97.5% is salt water. Approximately 68.7% of fresh water is trapped in glac...
A Tale of Two Water Supply Systems
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The issue of water has re-emerged in the state of Selangor. Peter Chin, Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water, recently issued a statement saying his h...
Each Citizen’s Duty to Combat Electoral Fraud
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The Bersih 3.0 rally on April 28, 2012 was historic. By conservative estimates, at least 100,000 people turned up in the march towards Dataran Merdeka in Kual...
The Imam Guide in the Garden
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Raja Mohamad Izan Raja Yusoff takes his job at the Tropical Spice Garden seriously. “Our responsibility is to tell the truth about our plants.” Ther...
The Working Poor
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“Poverty”, as defined by the World Bank, refers to the minimum level of earnings by a person per day. In 2009, the mean of the national poverty line...
George Town: A Work in Progress
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“I received so many calls and texts asking me if I’m for development or whether we want to stunt growth,” said Suraya Ismail, the moderator...