Jeffrey Hardy Quah - Penang Monthly

Paradise Being Lost, All Is Not Well on Penang’s Beaches

14 min read

 This article first appeared in our September 2011 issue. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we put together for you in this issue some of our most...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Marisa Heah

Marisa Heah

RIDING THE TECH TIGER

15 min read

Curry Khoo.I meet Curry Khoo for the first time at Starbucks in Auto-City in Juru. It is afternoon and I am actually running late – Google Maps is l...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Stormy Weather in Penang

8 min read

Penang has long produced some of the best musicians in the country. Yet despite all the talent, recognition is getting harder and harder to come by.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Daniel Lee

According to 20something Chee Beng Kean, there's a void in the market in terms of computer knowledge. The usual practice for it services companies is just reselling computer products, and computer servicing.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Rising from the ashes

8 min read

Long before most Malaysians thought green was trendy, when recycling was something you needed a bicycle for, there was Jimmy Lim.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Rosalind Chua

Rosalind Chua

Earth Hour under the rain tree

3 min read

The Socio-Economic and Environmental Research Institute (SERI) celebrates its 13th anniversary and synchronises it with Earth Hour.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Gardens going to seed

7 min read

The public wants to be involved before a project is carried out.” But the public wasn’t informed, not until the projects were well under way. Then it was too late, and widespread outrage soon followed.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Ben Wismen

Ben Wismen

By George Town! A festival to inherit

4 min read

Penang celebrates its Unesco Heritage status with a pulsating fiesta. Performances by local and foreign talents will fill the whole month of July, giving no one an excuse for missing it.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Building the Penang Bridge

8 min read

Penang has a few iconic structures, the most photographed of which is the Penang Bridge, opened in September 1985. PEM talks to Liaw Yew Peng, the chief resident engineer for the project.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Priced off Penang: Who can afford an island home?

12 min read

Property prices in Penang have skyrocketed in recent years, particularly in the northeastern region of the island, and young Penangites now face the prospect of renting, or finding a home much further away.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Lim Chong Eu Revisited

16 min read

Those who worked with and knew Tun Dr. Lim Chong Eu share their recollections of Penang's former Chief Minister.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Rosalind Chua

Rosalind Chua

Life on the List

14 min read

ENOUGH TIME has now passed for PEM to start asking what the most significant and noticeable changes are, and what people have learned from the fact that George Town is now under global scrutiny, what measures are crying out to be taken, and what the future holds for this newly recognised treasure.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Rosalind Chua & Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Rosalind Chua