June 2022

THERE IS THE pandemic, and then, there is the plantdemic – an emerging social phenomenon of mass buying exorbitant houseplants for, among other reasons, plain b...

KAMPUNG SELAMAT IS one of the few Chinese villages in Seberang Perai Utara. Over the decades, its transformation of economic activities bears witness to the dyn...

IN 2008, Prof Dato' Dr. Mokhtar Saidin, the director of Universiti Sains Malaysia's (USM) Centre for Global Archaeological Research (CGAR), and his team began d...

THE ADVOCACY for gender equality is a movement supported by many. Artists too, through various art forms, have been in the thick of the movement to highlight th...

WHEN I WAS a student in China in the 1970s, it was the norm to crowd and shove people on entering public buses and trains. If one were to queue (as my sensibili...

TELLING PEOPLE WHERE Tasek Gelugor is has always been a challenge for me – largely because most assume that it is a neighbourhood in the better-known Gelugor su...

WHEN WE SAY “Kuala Muda” to people, most of them immediately think of Pasar Bisik Kuala Muda, the Kuala Muda Whispering Market. This is a market that acquired t...

A TALK BY Pat Lim Chooi Ewe at the Penang Peranakan Festival in December 2021 about her family's version of kiam chai boey and khong assam expedited the complet...