Of Female Liberation and Suppression
2 min read
For all movements of liberation, the key to successful initiatives lies in identifying what the means of sustained suppression are, and to know which area is...
Tun Lim Chong Eu: The Past is Not Passé
4 min read
Tun Lim Chong Eu's reflections on history and politics show that, while we may be shaped by our past, we are not prisoners of it. Penang’s future hinges on learning from history to innovate and adapt.
Malaysian Envelopment
2 min read
How concepts relate to each other is always revealing. A close look at them always arouses new ways of thinking. The same goes for discovering the lost origin...
Feel Better, Be Bilingual
2 min read
Why is it so important to scientists to discover extra-terrestrial life forms? They know the odds are astronomically small.Well, they are hoping against hop...
A Monthly Dose of Penangiana
2 min read
It has now been two years since this magazine, Penang Economic Monthly, was revamped into a new colourful product meant for wider circulation and sale.The r...
Are Digital Disruptions Laying the Foundations for Holistic Education in the 21st Century?
6 min read
WITH DISRUPTIONS IN major industries changing the structure of daily economic life, all of us should sense very clearly by now that the education industry &ndas...
Drivers Behaving Badly
2 min read
What would happen if every car is obliged by law to have a CCTV camera mounted in front of the driver, which immediately beams his face prominently onto an LE...
How Laws Interact with Policies
3 min read
PENANG INSTITUTE’S PERSONNEL were given some pieces of good advice on February 18, 2020 concerning the relationship between the letter of the law and poli...
Securing Public Space In The Post-Imperial Age
2 min read
A history of Public Space in post-colonial countries is long overdue. Such a narrative would be a powerful one indeed if it also adopts the fall of empires as...
With Malaysian Politics on A Knife’s Edge, What Challenges Will Muhyiddin Face?
4 min read
If Malaysia ’s new government under Muhyiddin Yassin is a solid one, then one could perhaps begin declaring a new era in the country’s politics.Bu...
Covid-19 Exclusives: Time to Dare Imagine the Best Possible New Normal
4 min read
THERE WERE FOREWARNINGS that something like the Covid-19 pandemic would hit the world; and yet, it came as a big surprise to most governments. To those that did...
May We Remain Tentative When Understanding Others
2 min read
Calling a spade a spade is easy enough when you live in a small monolingual and mono-cultural society – such societies are necessarily small. But try do...