May 2021 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

Neighbourhood Support Sustains Small Businesses in George Town

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Photo: Regina HooWHEN ONE TALKS about new creative ventures, nine times out of 10 it has to do with the uniqueness of the products and services on offer....

Introducing the Seberang Perai Local Plan 2030

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SEBERANG PERAI IS a sizeable 73,841 hectares, or to be precise, it makes up 71% of Penang State’s total land mass. With the Island being well developed, l...

Pandemic or Not, there is No Such Thing as “De-globalisation”

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WHILE THE COVID-19 pandemic is sometimes portrayed as globalisation hitting a wall, it has at the same time raised public consciousness that globalisation as a...

Malaysia’s Creative Industry in Numbers

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AS DEFINED IN the National Creative Industry Policy (DIKN) 2009, the creative industry in Malaysia consists of three main categories which cover a total of 45 s...

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A Synergic Platform is Something Penang Almost Already Has to Build Back Better

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THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has obliged us to rethink the personal, the present and the proximate.Shaken by the arresting of our ambitions, stirred by disruptions t...

Same Same but Different

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