Designed By Penang Cultivating Local Champions For The Global Semiconductor Value Chain
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Kenneth Ong
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A Reputation For Style Sustained By Heritage Brands
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Penang’s fashion heritage lives through brands that balance tradition with reinvention. From batik and tailoring to menswear and jewellery, these enduring names continue shaping how identity and style are expressed across generations.
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Mai Cerita: A Student Project With High Intercultural Ambitions
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN you bring together two distinct Malaysian puppetry traditions? In December 2025, I participated in “Mai Cerita, Hidupkan…
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The Inclusive Ownership Of Penang And Its Paradoxes
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What makes a Penangite is not birthplace, but attachment. In this reflection on identity and belonging, Penang emerges as a place shaped by contradiction—provincial yet cosmopolitan, fragile yet resilient—held together by the people who care enough to claim it as their own.
Managing the Times: Businesses Evolved to Thrive
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Penang’s heritage businesses survive not by resisting change, but by evolving without losing their identity. Across generations, trust, craftsmanship and adaptability remain the foundations of their enduring relevance.
