October 2021 - Penang Monthly

No Creative Inertia for Malaysian Artists, Thank You

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WITH MORE PEOPLE getting vaccinated against Covid-19 with a view to achieving herd immunity, art spaces are opening up again, albeit still under SOPs such as we...

Introducing Culture Shot! Ethnically Diverse, Musically Intergrated

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THERE IS SOMETHING inexplicable about Penang and its local communities that is conducive to the free-flow of distinctive artistic expressions. Culture Shot came...

Chinese Tea Becoming Popular in Penang Again

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TO ENJOY A good cup of Chinese tea, much depends on how the leaves of the camellia sinensis plant is processed; through withering, oxidation, fixing or “kill gr...

Green Manufacturing: One Big Step Towards a Circular Economy

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GREEN MANUFACTURING... What is that? Well, as one might easily guess, it is about “greening” the manufacturing system. And one does that by reducing the use of...

End Vaccine Apartheid

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VACCINE COSTS HAVE pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue, with most low-income ones not even lining up. Worse, less vacc...

Still So Much to Learn about Long Covid

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FOR IVY CHAN, January 2021 will forever be remembered as the time she had a close call with death. She had developed a fever just before Christmas, and afraid t...

Light at the End of the Covid Tunnel

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ON FEBRUARY 24, then-premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin became the first Malaysian to be inoculated with the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine; this marked the start of th...

Urban Farming: A Sane Way to Live

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AFTER SUFFERING THE erosive effects of city life, some professionals have been choosing to leave their careers behind for the rewarding comfort of urban farming...

Re-learning the Importance and Possibility of Natural Air Ventilation during Covid

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THE PENANG HOSPITAL1 began life as a double-storey, colonnaded brick-and-timbre building. As was the norm for most bungalows in Penang at the time, the building...

Events

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VIRTUAL TALKCalling all new mummies! Here’s a chance to understand your babies better with the segment Decoding Your Baby's Body Language by The Asian Woman. Le...

The British-Siamese Boundary Stone: A Momentous Relic in Seberang Perai

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IN THE SMALL town of Pinang Tunggal towards the northeast corner of Seberang Perai Utara district stands the over-a-century-old British-Siamese Boundary Stone....

Budding Artists of Penang, Stifled and Side-tracked

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“HERE WE ARE, just around the corner.” We park next to an idyllic stream in rural Balik Pulau, and walk through what seems to be a secret hideaway into an orcha...