June 2020 - Penang Monthly

Will the Market for Art Ever be the Same Again?

7 min read

BRICK-AND-MORTAR art galleries are hugely impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic because of the lockdown and the consequent economic crunch.Poster of We...

A Malaysian Artist Under Lockdown in Italy

8 min read

May 4, 2020I’M WRITING THIS as a small shift begins to unlock the wheels of the Italian economy – the country has been in total lockdown since Mar...

Rebecca Ducke-Wilkinson

Nature Breathes Better as Covid-19 Keeps Humans Indoors

6 min read

THE YEAR 2020 started off with a bang and with the promise of many good things to come. But in January bushfires ravaged Australia and concomitantly, Covid-19 w...

Nursyazana Khidir Neoh

Working Mums Struggle to Manage Movement Restrictions

4 min read

OF THE MANY ways Covid-19 has changed the lives of working mothers everywhere, being at home while working, and educating and caring for the children may be the...

Data Privacy and Digital Trust

5 min read

THE DILEMMA OF limiting personal data privacy for the need to share information in the interest of public safety has heightened awareness of the issues involved...

Hacking the Next Normal

7 min read

COVID-19 SENT the world into disarray, and we now face unprecedented challenges in dealing with the ramifications of movement restrictions, and reviving our soc...

Covid-19: Fiscal Challenges Await Most Governments

7 min read

COUNTRIES ARE LIKENING the Covid-19 pandemic to war and indeed, we are observing wartime spending levels across the globe. Malaysia’s RM260bil fiscal stim...

Covid-19 and the Rohingya: Staying Home when One is Homeless

7 min read

MALAYSIA’S RESPONSE TO the refugee crisis amid the global Covid-19 pandemic has drawn sharp criticism, both on the national and international front. On Ap...

Braema Mathi

How Aware Are We?

9 min read

AS THE COMBINED Covid-19 cases reach a staggering 2 million and counting, global healthcare systems are being stretched beyond their limits.Initial public res...

Working for Peace and Justice is an Uphill Battle

5 min read

WORKING FOR PEACE is an attractive, but nebulous cause. Without Justice, conflicts are hard to avoid and peace gets disrupted. And so, the work begins again on...

Braema Mathi

Tackling Sexual Harassment

6 min read

SEXUAL HARASSMENT is about power, not sexual desire.The term first hit international airwaves in the 1980s – four decades ago. On the heels of the #MeTo...

Braema Mathi

Penangites: Do We Know Our Civil Rights?

1 min read

A survey conducted by Penang Monthly on civil rights awareness in Penang gathered 120 respondents, and revealed the following results.Correction: Please not...

Melissa Chan