I Musici
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One ensemble, 12 musicians and over 60 years of making history – I Musici is the world’s oldest active chamber music group and will be performing at...
September 2026
The September Issue Is Out Now! Penang Monthly’s September issue explores the vibrant world of Penang’s pasar malam, highlighting their food, culture, community, traditions, and evolving role in island life.
Surely Not Another Cold War!
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In the many workshops on US-China relations that I have attended in the last decade, one very popular view about the future of US-China relations is based on th...
Time to Free the Mass Media
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Tears came to my eyes when I was watching a documentary on Martin Luther King, Jr recently. This always happens when I watch programmes or movies portraying the...
Slowing Climate Change
10 min read
As the Norwegian Nobel Committee correctly noted when announcing its decision to award the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
Raising Awareness in the Fight Against Cancer
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Members of the cancer support group.Major advances in medical science now mean that cancer is not necessarily a death sentence. What’s more, the num...
An Election by Manifesto
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The 13th General Election holds a very real possibility of change in the federal government. Most important is the fact that never before have policies played s...
A Little Island That Danced
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Oratnitza's Horhe on the didgeridoo.Music defines us. It gives us an identity, a culture. Flutes carved from animal bone, stone drums, goat-skin string in...
Shale Gas – A Game Changer for the Energy Industry
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In November 2012, while the world focused on the US presidential elections, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released the World Energy Outlook 2012 that...
Watershed Elections for Malaysia
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Malaysia’s Arab Spring happened in September 1998 when former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was arrested. By refus...
Penang has decided – time for fulfilling the promises
5 min read
Penangites have shown their preferences. Notwithstanding accusations of fraud in certain constituencies, there is no doubt that the final election results in Pe...
Penang Way Back When... and Not So Long Ago Either
7 min read
Many are the Malaysians who grew to know Penang through studying for years at USM. The memories of those days live with them throughout their lives, and bring them back time and again. Gunalan Namasivayam is one of them.
Bountiful beats of AkashA
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The crowd at the recent Penang World Music Festival at the Botanical Gardens had already been entertained by a number of global acts by the time AkashA went on...
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