All that Rozz-matazz
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WHO DID PEOPLE WATCH Before Rozz (BR)? Where did we go out at night? The answers are lost in a hazy mist; it’s hard to imagine a time when Penang had a ha...
The Shafee Yahaya Story: Estate Boy to aca Chief
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THIS NARRATIVE ABOUT Datuk Shafee Yahaya, former Anti Corruption Agency (ACA) chief who assumed the position from June 16, 1994 to September 11, 1998, written b...
The fine art of estimating economic health
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IntroductionWhen reports say that the economy is growing at six per cent, this number is the change in the real (i.e. adjusted for inflation) gross domestic p...
Horst Rosenmueller : Knowing what motivates others is the key
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What are some of the key highlights of your professional experience?In 2008, we established an R&D centre here in addition to the R&D Group based in R...
Happiness is a haircut
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AS A CHILD, whenever I was in need of a haircut my father would take me to our regular Indian barber. I never understood why we always patronised the same shop....
Lighting the way
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CAMBODIA IN THE early 1990s was not the investment location of choice for the “big guns” of the Western business elite, despite its proximity to the...
Taking bigger than baby steps to transform the economy
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PENANG CHIEF MINISTER Lim Guan Eng recently demanded that the Prime Minister Department’s Performance and Management & Delivery Unit (Pemandu) gives a...
The Humanities are needed more than ever
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Taken from the keynote address at the Opening Dinner of the Ninth Regional API Workshop of The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API...
Things tourists cannot experience
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Above: The PalanquInn Heritage Suites.I WAS SURPRISED when I visited Penang recently to discover that there’s a boutique hotel operating on Bangkok...
Malaysia needs an equitable healthcare system
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Malaysia’s relatively equitable health system of the pastAny humane society must adopt the principle that healthcare is a right of all its citizens and...
Greening communities in Penang
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GOING GREEN IS no longer simply a buzzword, nor is it a passing fad. This is becoming obvious to more and more people. In this decade alone, many have come to...
Cities, People & the Economy: A Study on Positioning Penang
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PENANG HAS ALWAYS had to depend on its people for economic survival. For the last 40 years, this has been achieved through a development model focused on medium...