Penangites: Do We Know Our Civil Rights?
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A survey conducted by Penang Monthly on civil rights awareness in Penang gathered 120 respondents, and revealed the following results.Correction: Please not...
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.
Taking Steady Steps towards Civic Engagement
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CIVIC ENGAGEMENT or civic participation refers to actions taken by individuals or groups to address issues of public concern.But how does one learn to be civi...
Get to Know Your Civil Rights
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THROUGHOUT FEBRUARY 2020, Penang Monthly conducted a survey on Penangites’ awareness of their rights as Malaysian citizens. The survey centred around thre...
Becoming A Saner Person during the MCO
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ON JUNE 10 Malaysia entered the recovery phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO); and though the world has started to acclimatise to the “new normal&rdq...
Volunteering is the Heart at Work
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MEET 24-YEAR-OLD law student Chin How Zet. Since the start of the Movement Control Order (MCO), he has been assisting the needy and the underprivileged in his c...
Millennials Surviving the Quarantine
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MILLENNIALS ARE FINDING themselves under unusual circumstances these days, as they navigate the indelible changes that Covid-19 has introduced into their lives....
Providing Nourishment for the Frontliners
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AS EARLY AS February, pictures of doctors and nurses with tired faces, imprinted with the tight elastic bands of their face masks and shields began circulating...
May We Remain Tentative When Understanding Others
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Calling a spade a spade is easy enough when you live in a small monolingual and mono-cultural society – such societies are necessarily small. But try do...
One Man’s Food Waste Can be Another Man’s Meal
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UNCLE TEOH TAKES out his knife and cuts off the bottom end of the radish that has gone bad. He tears off the lettuce leaves that have browned and puts them all...
Women in the Informal Sector Hit Hard by the MCO
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NO DOUBT, businesses and employees in the non-essential sectors have suffered from significant income losses. But it is in the informal sector that workers have...
Caring for the Ill and the Dying from A Distance
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IN 2012 my sister passed away from breast cancer. Days before she passed, my uncle flew back from Perth while my twin sister, who was working in KL at the time,...
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