Vestiges of Penang’s Entrepot Days

by Pan Yi Chieh

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Realities of Living on the Clan Jetties

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The Clan Jetties community has been living with the sea as backdrop for generations. This inseparable connection with their environment has formed an essential...

by Pan Yi Chieh

Pan Yi Chieh

Guilds that Built Penang

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Penang became a regional entrepot in the early nineteenth century and with it, various kinds of constructions sprung up to meet the needs of public development...

by Pan Yi Chieh

Pan Yi Chieh

Tang Hon Yin – In Search of Magical Margins

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Still Life (30 x 21cm. Gouache on paper, 1959).THE Tang Hon Yin Retrospective is a fitting culmination of the artist’s Space Odyssey of half a centu...

by Ooi Kok Chuen

February 2019 Feature

Penang Art Society – Doing Art with Open Arms

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Ch’ng Huck Theng, current president of the Penang Art Society.Penang Art Society, established in 1953, is the oldest registered art society in the s...

by Nicole Chang

February 2019 Roll Of Honour

Penang – Motherland of Musicians

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As a small state, Penang is certainly not short of talent – perhaps it’s in the water we drink. It has produced many musical geniuses throughout the...

by Paul Augustin