Larger Than Life
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Penang Monthly
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Adult Suffrage Comes to Penang and Malaysia, 1951
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Voter registration under way.The Report on the Introduction of Elections in the Municipality of George Town, Penang (Kuala Lumpur: Government Press, 1951)...
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Malaysia The Welfare State?
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EVER SINCE THE Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) muktamar in June, which had as its theme the “welfare state” policy concept, there has been a scram...
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Manning The State Government
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The Malaysian flag, now affectionately called the Jalur Gemilang, raised at the Stadium Merdeka in 1957 when Malaya became a new nation, bears a close resemblance to the American Stars and Stripes. The Malaysian flag’s red and white stripes represent one state each as do the star’s 13 points.
Eric Quah: A Beautiful Life
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FINALLY, the pieces are coming together in Eric Quah’s life. Images of people, places and events collaged through a flourish of brushstrokes or an erasu...
Develop by All Means, But Not by Any Means
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I WOULD LIKE to touch on the issue of the type of development towards which Penang, in particular Penang Island, is headed.Let me begin with an anecdote. Rece...