November 2025

This November, Penang Monthly explores language, place and memory. As GTLF returns, we highlight Penang’s multilingual streets and the dialects that keep local history alive.

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What Do The State Budgets of Penang and Selangor Tell Us?

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WE ARE LIVING in times beset by talk of financial difficulties all over the world.The Eurozone crisis continues to unfold with the economies of Spain, Greece...

by Penang Monthly

Top of The Class – Penang Shines in Auditor-General’s Report

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The ins and outsA state’s financial statement is divided into three parts – consolidated revenue fund, consolidated trust fund and consolidated lo...

by Ong Wooi Leng

Give Butterworth A Coastal Park

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IN THE JUNE 2010 issue of this magazine, I published an article entitled “Butterworth remains the Ugly Duckling”. It was about the failure of the to...

by Penang Monthly

Ideas and Actions For A Green State

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Phee Boon PohIN 1992, Malaysia signed the United Nations’ Earth Summit Rio Declaration on Environment and Development in Rio de Janerio. This gave r...

by Penang Monthly

2012 Budget Under The Microscope at Penang Institute

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A week after the 2012 Malaysian Budget, the Penang Institute (formerly known as SERI) held its annual flagship event – the Post Budget Dialogue – to...

by Penang Monthly

Budget 2012 Reveals Malaysia’s Structural Problems

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Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods th...

by Penang Monthly

Penang News

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Water sports law to be enforcedThe Penang state government will begin to enforce the Personal Watercraft (Penang) Enactment 1999, following numerous jet-ski...

by Penang Monthly

Heritage Trees of Penang

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When you browse through a bookstore to search for books on cultural landscapes, it is not uncommon to find many that deal with the built environment, and how...

by Penang Monthly

Penang Philharmonic -Giving A Face to The City

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Today, the orchestra has some 80 members, playing everything from the violin to the oboe to the double bass. Its members consist of the young and the old, rangi...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Penang's Maritime Potential

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Connecting oceansConnecting oceans Location at the entrance to the Straits of Malacca and its long coastline provide Penang with a substantial maritime ad...

by Penang Monthly

The State of Non-Muslims in Penang and Selangor.

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The season for cheer last December was slightly dampened by several events in the months leading up to Christmas. Christmas carollers were thrown into confu...

by Penang Monthly

Continuing A 125-year-old Internationalisation Strategy

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ErrataIn “Managing Malaysia’s first EMC lab”, published in issue 12.11, the term “technopreneur” was described as “Entre...

by Poh Heem Heem

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