Our Economist At The UN
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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
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Love And More Is All Around
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What makes Penang stand out is its streets history being lived against a backdrop of ancient architecture and the air scented by hawker wares and musically scored by vehicles peopled by diverse seekers of lifetime fortune and night-long adventure.
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Paradise Being Lost, All Is Not Well on Penang’s Beaches
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YOU CANNOT SIT HERE, I just realised that,” Juergen Bosch says, looking at our surroundings as if for the first time, though we’ve been talking for most of an hour. The otherwise white sand is filthy, covered with dirt, detritus and the occasional plastic bottle and cigarette butt.
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Medical Devices Manufacturing: Penang Pursues The New Frontier (Part 2)
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