Tourism and technology
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The first ever conference on travel technology and hospitality automation launches this November.On November 21 and 22, 2013, Kuching will pla...
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.
Sabah & Sarawak where 1Malaysia is a reality
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Mariana Taliban still sounded perturbed when she recounted how an American visitor to her village in Sabah reacted to her name some years ago. He appeared genui...
Bahasa Indonesia championed by Chinese
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Literature is the window into the collective psyche of a society. It is the medium that conveys a society’s identity and aspiration at different points in time and is a snapshot of a particular era.
Housing maintenance in Penang
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A well-managed and maintained housing development can enhance quality of life and wellbeing, promote neighbourliness and strengthen community ties. Poorly maint...
The Newsagent on China Street
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Syed Ibramsha is a very happy and friendly newsagent. His stall is based at the TNB box where China Street meets Beach Street. He is a working-day fixture selling newspapers, magazines, cigarettes and sweets off his small metal pushcart stall.
Bridging the arts between Malaysia and Singapore
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City of artGeorge Town never rests. Well into its golden years, it would seem as if this quaint remnant of British Colonia is experiencing its second youth, a...
The Men with Shaved Legs
7 min read
What’s it like cycling through one of the toughest stages of the Tour de France? The Grimpeurs decided to find out, and in the process, raise money for cancer charities in the UK. Penangite and support crew Bram Tan was there, and fills us in on how it went.
Asian Financial Crisis Act II?
5 min read
In the mid-1990s, the Renminbi and Yen devalued while rising US interest rates led to a strong US dollar. These, together with the withdrawal of capital from As...
English is vital to Vision 2020
5 min read
In Malaysia today, people are feeling more divided than ever before – by race, religion, political leanings, location, class… and proficiency in En...
Time for a second federation in Malaysia?
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Syngman Rhee at a welcoming ceremony in Seoul, Korea, October 1945.Queen Elizabeth II.Malaysians tend to have a very rigid notion of nat...
Reviving a state of mind that can save our urban legacy
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One Sunday morning, I got up at the break of dawn to head into the heart of old KL with my parents. I had been hearing about a volunteer group called Rakan KL...
Constraints on artistic expression multiply
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Ng Sek San's Malaysian Spring installation "terkongkong" (constricted) inside a room.The latest blow to strike Malaysia’s art scene was the banning...
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