June 2022 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

NFTs: A Flash in the Pan or a Herald of the Future?

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WHEN BEEPLE’S NFT, Everydays: The First 5,000 Days (2021), sold for US$69.3mil at Christie’s March 2021 auction, it triggered a seismic revolution in the art wo...

[Penang Walk Zones Project: Phase Two] Ecotourism: A Bright Future Awaits Seberang Perai Utara

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HAVE YOU EVER noticed how different Seberang Perai and Penang Island are even though they are nestled within the same state? The omnipresent rice fields and coc...

Events in June

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RUNOlympic Day Fun Run is now open for registration! The 6-km fun run intends to encourage the public to adopt a healthier lifestyle while allowing participants...

Seberang Perai Utara in Numbers

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SEBERANG PERAI WAS historically known as Province Wellesley, when in 1798, it was handed over by the Kedah Sultanate to the British East India Company. In recen...

Two Steps Back for Penang’s Theatre Scene

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SINCE 2011, the Performing Arts Centre of Penang (penangpac) has fostered shared spaces and built bridges between art practitioners, enthusiasts and members of...

Skin Whitening Ambitions: Why and at What Cost?

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THEY SAY “beauty has no skin tone” but fair skin has always been associated with status, beauty and even morality. In Malaysia, some workplaces prefer candidate...

What Do Straits Do—Separate or Connect? [Part One]

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DOES THE PENANG Strait separate Seberang Perai from Penang Island or does it connect one to the other?This question is not as glib as it may sound at first read...

Time for Comedy to Bloom in Penang

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“HI EVERYONE. My name is Juliana Heng. I have autism. Because of autism, I’m a bit slow. When you listen to jokes, you’ll laugh immediately. I’ll laugh a bit la...

“I Am Home”: Putting Social Harmony on Show

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FOR GENERATIONS, people from around the globe have come to Penang to make a better life for themselves and their families. Today, the descendants of these early...