Breakdown of Government Revenue, 2012
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Government revenue consists of three components – direct taxes, indirect taxes and non-tax revenues. Direct taxes consist of income taxes from companies,...
Meet Sesame, Meet Soy
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We are at Sesame + Soy, a Pan Asian Chinese restaurant on the first floor of G Hotel at Gurney Drive. Interestingly the re...
Managing Your Own High-Rise
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Penang has one of the highest densities of apartments and condominiums in Malaysia, and this is set to increase as more and more developments are constructed an...
Film review: The Rights Of The Dead
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Twenty five minutes. The length of this documentary is shorter than the interrogation of Teoh Beng Hock (which lasted nine hours), but it manages to convey with...
A Crane Without Bite
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I’ve always thought of musicals as the club sandwich of the performing arts world. Sure, a bacon sandwich tastes pretty good on its own, but throw in anot...
A Special Economic Zone for Sumatra
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Penang Institute was recently invited to the National Conference on North Sumatra’s Government-Industry Coalition, held in light of the region’s cur...
Letting SMEs Grow Penang
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SMEs or small and medium enterprises are defined differently in different countries. In Malaysia, they are defined according to sales turnover and employment....
Change of Mayor Too High-Handed to Ignore
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The issue of federalism and the need for decentralisation of government control emerged yet again during the recent Selangor fiasco of its MBPJ mayor’s...
George Town Literary Festival II
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What's new this year and what can audiences look forward too? We noticed that there are a number of returnin...
Why Not go for the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize?
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George Town is now 226 years old, and of course, it has gone through its share of trials and tribulations. The question is, is it a better city in which to stay...
Budget 2013: PUSHING THE LIMIT
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In Malaysia’s final national budget before the impending 13th General Election, the federal government is pushing its fiscal limits, aiming to satisfy i...
Penang news
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Airport to see growth in passenger trafficPenang International Airport is expecting to see passenger traffic grow by four to five per cent in 2012, due to s...