October 2020 - Penang Monthly

Jeju and Penang: Two Islands, But Two So Very Different Bus Rides

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JEJU, PRESENT DAY: The electronic readout at the chrome and glass sheltered bus stop tells me my bus is two minutes away. The bus stop provides free Wi-Fi, so I...

Marc de Faoite

Building an App for a Crisis

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TO BUILD A properly functioning app for urgent public use is no small feat. Take for example the now defunct Penang Contact Tracer application, or PGCare for sh...

Enzo Sim

Malaysians Move from Game-playing to Game-making

6 min read

GONE ARE THE days of the parent-child barter trade: “Score Straight As in your exams, and you’ll get that Gameboy Yellow you wanted.” Today, t...

Malaysia’s Top 100 Auction Lots Across the Decade

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Ibrahim Hussein’s Man with Possessions, 1964. Oil on canvas (122 x 122cm).WHO IS THE No. 1 Artist in Malaysia?Going by the market record of prices...

Study Shows that Penang is Steadily Embracing the Penang Smart Parking App

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THE PENANG STATE government launched the Penang Smart Parking (PSP) system in August 2019 as part of its journey towards fulfilling the vision Penang2030: A F...

Associate Professor Dr. Daisy Mui Hung Kee

STEM Education: Quo Vadis, Malaysia?

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STEM EDUCATION REMAINS an enigma to policymakers, even after decades of research. Since economic growth today hinges on technological development, and the latte...

Lessons for the Education Sector to Learn from Covid-19

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AS OF APRIL 21 – at the height of Covid-19 – schools in 191 countries were forced into mass closure. An estimated 1.5 billion students globally were...

Digital Onboarding in Numbers

6 min read

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION is a core focus area of Penang2030. To enhance the usage of digital technology among Penangites, the state government has implemented a v...

Ng Kar Yong

How Far on Your Digital Journey Have You Come?

9 min read

PENANG’S GOAL OF becoming a Smart State is still a nascent one since the concept itself still lacks a single universally acknowledged definition, tending...

Enzo Sim

The Smartphone and the Elderly

5 min read

THE SMARTPHONE BECAME a liberator of sorts for many of us when in-person connection was rendered impossible by lockdown restrictions and social distancing measu...

Seeing, Writing and Creating Better Possibilities

5 min read

THE PLOT, TITLE and aesthetics all make a novel. To some authors, the writing comes easier than sketching out the storyline, this often requires research that m...

Esther Ping Dominic

Penang Enhances Governance and Prepares for Socio-economic Recovery (September-December 2020)

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Penang2030, C4: Accelerating Programme Delivery and Institutional ReformsThe Covid -19 pandemic continues to affect the world. The situation in Wuhan, China s...

Chow Kon Yeow