Using Books to Connect Cultures
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Every time a festive season comes around, a full-page advertisement appears in major local newspapers. It features historical figures and talks about Malaysian...
Ensuring Teochew Opera Has A Future
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Ling Goh was born into a family of Teochew puppets and opera performers. Her great-grandparents, Yang Bing Jin and Li Yu Feng, were performers in China who came to Penang to continue the trade with their son, Yang Qing Ying, Goh’s grandfather.
A Mualaf Celebrates Chinese New Year
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For the millions of ethnic Chinese in Malaysia, Chinese New Year is a huge occasion – hundreds or even thousands of ringgit are set aside for angpao, hous...
Evolution in Skills Upgrading for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Muhamed Ali Hajah Mydin.Parking attendants are being replaced with autopay systems. Similarly, supermarkets are increasingly introducing self-checkout mac...
Mothers – Queens of Our Hearts
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The saying goes that being a mother is the hardest job in the world – there are no sick days, no rest and no pay. Penang Monthly takes a look at three ins...
Raya at Home... and Away
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(From right) Anom Ahmad with her mother and sister.Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebrations are about kinship, strengthening ties – and food! Three childho...
Celebrating Hari Raya as a Mualaf
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Chinese-Muslim convert Muhammad Shamel Mirza Lam Abdullah shares how he celebrates Hari Raya Aidilfitri, and his deep-rooted love for his multiracial, multicult...
A Festival at Your Doorstep
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George Town Festival's various shows.It’s a bonanza of local and international acts as George Town Festival (GTF) returns for its...
Bringing Excess Food Back from the Brink
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Calvin Chan Yi Xuan was barely 20 years old when he won the Penang Green Idol, an annual competition organised by the Penang Green Council to reward and encoura...
Letting A Teen Think Like An Entrepreneur
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It was not an easy competition to start with – beginning at the school level, it proceeded to the state level, and then national and international. Each c...
“I Am Home”: Putting Social Harmony on Show
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FOR GENERATIONS, people from around the globe have come to Penang to make a better life for themselves and their families. Today, the descendants of these early...
Batu Aceh – A Heritage in Need of Protection
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MORE THAN JUST a final resting place, the old Muslim graveyards in Penang are home to gravestones known as Batu Aceh. These ornamented grave-markers are c...