An Art Exchange on Penang’s Walls and Streets
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Urban Xchange, Penang’s first international street art festival, divided the state’s art sphere between purists and those who dare to be different.
The New Wave of Malaysian Fixi-on
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Petaling Jaya-based independent publisher Fixi conquered Malaysia's bestsellers charts with a new wave of pulp fiction that dares to defy Islamic conservatism and the country’s alleged low-reading rates.
Road Tripping with Long-Distance Parents
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When you have been living far apart from your parents for a long time, you acquire your own habits. And when they come to visit, playing host to and going on a road trip together with them can be a meaningful, albeit exhausting experience.
Foreign Students Learning the Hard Way
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Increasingly restrictive policies related to the issuance of student visas have transformed Malaysia from a rising education hub to a foreign student’s worst nightmare.
Malaysian Skinheads Against Racism
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Why would a bunch of KL kids who listen to Western Neo-Nazi bands such as Angry Aryan, but clearly aren’t Aryan themselves, adopt a worldview that specifically discriminates against their own race?
Resisting the Closing of the Malaysian Mind
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Eccentric professor Latif Kamaluddin writes powerful, mean verses that challenge Malaysians to think about where their modernity really comes from.
Penang’s frontline survivor
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One can glean that Kim Gooi has lived an amazing life just by looking at him: donning a slanting beret, his whole persona exudes the sense that he’s flirt...
The punk artists of Mount Kinabalu
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About 100km away from Kota Kinabalu, I find myself standing inside a sunscorched country house, looking at a line of A3-sized posters hanging on the walls.About...
Bukit Mertajam Offers Some Rare Authenticity
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Bukit Mertajam might be well off the tourist map, but it has much more to offer than what its reputation as George Town’s satellite suggests. We take a walk to the town’s centre and meet its protagonists.
Stories from some young Malay minds
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They say don’t judge a book by its cover, and in the case of Young and Malay: Growing up in Multicultural Malaysia, I couldn’t agree more. The spunk...
Making Words Perform Art
5 min read
At the George Town Literary Festival 2015, meet this group of people who create imagery and music with words.
Fusing Modern Skills with Traditional Crafts
5 min read
Art festival Urban Xchange 2015 brought together young artists and traditional handicraft masters to re-imagine Penang’s heritage.