November 2021 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

Future-proofing Talents for the Digital World

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WITH THE TAGLINE “Think Tomorrow”, Wawasan Open University (WOU) is embarking on an exciting new way of future-proofing talents, with its newly introduced Schoo...

Events

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FESTIVALThemed “Mikro-cosmos”, the 11th edition of George Town Literary Festival (GTLF) will feature mostly online conversations, exploring the spirit of cosmop...

Strong Need for Religious Literacy in Malaysia

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RELIGIOUSLY DIVERSE AS Malaysia is, its people are strangely monolithic in literacy of the faiths of their fellow countrymen. Thaipusam, for example, takes on t...

IoT Analytics and Its Application in Marine Aquaculture

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USING IoT ANALYTICS, the Schools of Computer Sciences and Chemical Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia are working together with the fish farming community...

Assoc. Prof Dr. Nurul Hashimah Ahamed Hassain Malim

Street Industry 4.0

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Multiple Survival Channels for Penang’s F&B Sector

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THE MCO HAS taught Penang’s services industry many lessons, for example pursuing the plethora of available consumer channels, to onboarding digitally and quickl...

Crafting Stories Set in Southeast Asia for the World

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WRITER WAN PHING Lim (her preferred name order) was born in Butterworth and lives in KL. Many of the 14 stories in her recently published debut short story coll...

Marc de Faoite

Online Shopping in Numbers

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MALAYSIA’S INTEREST IN online shopping waxed and waned over the period of the pandemic. Combining this with household income data from the Department of Statist...

The Intriguing Invention of “Zero” and “One”

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ZEROES AND ONES fill our world today. The binary code that powers our computers could of course have been signified by other, even arbitrary, symbols, but they...