November 2018

Listen Up, Malaysians! You Are Now Individually the Agents of Change

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One of the greatest challenges that faces a society coming out of a period of authoritarian rule and bad governance is the need to break away from looking to po...

So What Are You Reading Today?

11 min read

The Prince of Wales Island Gazatte.Penang’s history of publishing is a remarkable one. In 1806, when it was made a Presidency of India, the first is...

Asian Art Dominates at Malaysia Expo

7 min read

Heri Dono's kinetic installation from the gilt-edged international collection of world elite collector Datuk Noor Azman Nurdin.Francis Bacon's F...

Jalan-Jalan Cari Datuk: Encounters

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A Malaysian friend tells me that, as a young boy, when he walked with his grandmother, she would say to him “Don’t pee on the tree, Datuk Kong lives...

Cheryl J Hoffmann

Siamese Ties in Need of Preservation

7 min read

Wallapa Buranawijarn.Penang has always had a sizeable Siamese community, and this relationship stretches back to the nineteenth century.On May 30, 1845,...

How to Survive Without Having to Migrate?

11 min read

What if you want to emigrate to the West but are not able to? Don’t worry – if you shift your paradigm, you don’t need to even worry about sur...

Ken Soong Michael Soong

Using Books to Connect Cultures

5 min read

Every time a festive season comes around, a full-page advertisement appears in major local newspapers. It features historical figures and talks about Malaysian...

Tho Mun Yi

Defending Literacy among the Visually Impaired

6 min read

New forms of media following the rise of technological advances have eclipsed the written word, and Braille literacy among the visually impaired appears to...