The First 2020 Update on Penang 2030
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A YEAR AND a half has come and gone since chief minister Chow Kon Yeow announced his vision for the state.The vision, Penang2030: A Family-focused Green and S...
June 2026
Discover Penang Monthly’s June issue: explore the stories behind Penang’s enduring heritage brands, the richness of its multilingual and multicultural heritage, innovative local businesses, community-led initiatives, and the challenges shaping the state’s future. From family enterprises and semiconductor pioneers to traditional food, festivals, education, and environmental sustainability, this issue celebrates Penang’s resilience, identity, and capacity for renewal.
A Sport is an Ongoing Search for Common Ground
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IT IS STRANGELY hard to decide what a sport is; and when we do settle on a definition, it is only acceptable if we do not consider the many forms of human activ...
Woman? Yes! Engineer? Yes! Successful? Yes!
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AT THE YOUNG age of 30 and with a rocketing career as a senior software engineer at Motorola Solutions Penang, Angelene Koid became the 2019 recipient of the Yo...
Yes, It’s Now Time for Local SMEs in E&E to do R&D
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AFTER THREE DECADES helming various engineering divisions at Motorola, Intel and Freescale Semiconductor, Kalai Selvan Subramaniam remains ready to challenge hi...
Locally Familiar, Globally Recognised
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MANY A TIME, the obvious complexities of everyday items elude us. Take the device many of us treat as extensions of ourselves: the mobile phone. CNBC estimates...
Print Media: Too Cherished to Fade Away
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IT IS A hotly debated subject: Does going digital spell the end of print media? Granted, the reading culture has gone through quite a technology shake-up, from...
Entrepreneurship Gone Sexy
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP. THIS IS a word more used than understood. But it is a word that is hugely popular today. It connotes some psychological quality that we wish t...
Creative Industries in Numbers
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Malaysia’s National Creative Industry Policy (DIKN) which draws on DCMS’s definition of creative industries identifies 14 sub-sectors, dividing them into three distinct categories: Multimedia, Cultural Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Crafting Ideas That Sell
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The prevalence of social media has greatly influenced people’s spending power. They don’t just rely on advertisements any longer, but rather base their purchasing decisions on the information and reviews found online, which is why today copywriters are called writers instead.
Handicrafts are More than Just Knick-knacks
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The handicraft industry was a thriving value-added service for Penang’s free port, but times have since changed. Previously hampered by slow production speed, the uniqueness of individual handicrafts is now threatened by mass production exacerbated by technological growth spurts.
Sculpturing Public Spaces
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To attract people to interact in public spaces, the first step has been to beautify them, and that is easily done through art. And taken as a whole, the intrusion of art into once unmanaged public spaces in Penang is the Penang Sculpture Trail.
Renewed Spaces, Renewed City
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In this article, we walk you through some of the emerging spaces in Penang and explore the meanings behind them.
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