Covid-19 Exclusives: The Art World in Quarantine
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WHAT DO ARTISTS and galleries/dealers do during lockdowns? Suffering a severe money crunch, they know sanguinely that it will be a new art market and landscape...
Covid-19 Exclusives: Schools May Be Shut, but the Learning Continues
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“BEEN HOME-SCHOOLING the kids, they aren’t listening and I’m having my 10th meltdown! Hats off to all teachers for teaching our children with...
Covid-19 Exclusives: A Hiker’s Guide to Staying at Home During the MCO
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WHEN THE MCO was first announced, I, like many other Malaysians, was taken by surprise. What began as a two-week affair has now extended to more than a month. &...
Covid-19 Exclusives: Journalists are Also Essential Workers During Times of Crisis
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EVER SINCE THE World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a global pandemic, Zaim Aiman Ibrahim, a Penang-based journalist for The Malaysian Insight, has...
Poor Households Bear the Economic Brunt of Covid-19
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THE COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world into unprecedented times of uncertainty and turmoil. As the global numbers of positive cases and deaths continue to...
Penang Lawan Covid-19 Off to a Strong Start
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THE STRUGGLE AGAINST Covid-19 will be a long one. To quote Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow: “This is a marathon, not a 100-meter sprint. We have to be...
Covid-19 Exclusives: Time to Dare Imagine the Best Possible New Normal
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THERE WERE FOREWARNINGS that something like the Covid-19 pandemic would hit the world; and yet, it came as a big surprise to most governments. To those that did...
Persons with Disabilities in Numbers
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ACCORDING TO THE Department of Social Welfare Malaysia, disability is listed into seven separate categories. These are hearing, visual, speech, physical, learni...
Expanding the World of the Blind and Visually-impaired
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FOUNDED IN 1926 the St. Nicholas’ Home for the Blind (SNH) is a pioneer in educational services and training programmes for the Blind and Visually-impaire...
A Nurturing Environment for Differently-abled Students in Penang
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EDUCATION IS CONSIDERED by most of us to be a universal right. However, the ability to make use of opportunities, especially at the tertiary education level, do...
Penang: A Home for Persons with Disabilities
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THE PENANG STATE government works contemporaneously with the federal government to provide aid and assistance for citizens in need.A top priority category is...