Wong Teik Aun - Penang Monthly

The Big Generative AI Challenge Assessing And Embedding Authenticity In Higher Education

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THE WIDESPREAD AVAILABILITY and use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as DeepSeek and ChatGPT, present significant challenges to…

by Wong Teik Aun

Indian Barbershops in Malaysia: A Fading Fashion

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INDIAN BARBERSHOPS HAVE become a unique institution in Malaysia, rooted in local history and the country’s cultural fabric. Beyond…

by Wong Teik Aun

Penang: A Natural Stop on The Hippie Trail

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“THERE ARE WESTERN papayas in Batu Ferringhi!” whispered some of the older boys in school. I was rather innocent then,…

by Wong Teik Aun

Social Publishing: An Alternative Model for Aspiring Authors

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A LITERATE and learned society relies on a supply of active local authors, a dynamic publishing sector and a strong culture of readership, all of which Malaysia...

by Wong Teik Aun

Social Capital Required for Upgrading Parks

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ONE OF THE main ways of environmental conservation is establishing nature parks or protected areas. Signatory countries of the UN’s Aichi Target 11 aspire that...

by Wong Teik Aun

Seeking Nash Equilibrium in the Tertiary Education Sector

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WHEN I WAS a student in China in the 1970s, it was the norm to crowd and shove people on entering public buses and trains. If one were to queue (as my sensibili...

by Wong Teik Aun

As Online Learning Goes Mainstream, We Will Need Less Physical School Spaces

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THE SIJIL PELAJARAN Malaysia (SPM) results for the 2020 school year turned out to be better than, or at least comparable to those of previous years. This is a n...

by Wong Teik Aun

A Good Time to Adopt the Industrialised Building System

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THE PANDEMIC PRESENTS an opportunity for structural improvements to the economy. In the construction sector, the time is indeed ripe for an evolutionary step to...

by Wong Teik Aun