Testaments of Their Times
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Jubilee Clock Tower in George Town, Penang.It is easy to tell the time today – you have it on your wrist, or in your pocket, or on your desk, o...
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Rejoicing in George Town’s Diverse Rituals
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Kuah Li Feng.This year, the George Town Heritage Celebrations, held from July 6-8, highlights the rituals and festive events of the various...
Malaya’s Ceylonese Connection
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The relationship between Malaya and Ceylon was established long before East India Company days through trade in spices, tin, elephants and peacocks.When exact...
Keepers of Heritage
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Suffolk House, the Carpenters’ Guild Loo Pun Hong, Han Jiang Ancestral Temple… the Penang Heritage Trust (PHT) has been a bastion for Penang&r...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Heritage
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It’s the word du jour, “heritage”. International organisations vote to acknowledge and list it (for protection purposes, among...
Handling the Intangibles: Heritage Management in George Town
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The road to becoming a World Heritage site was not easy for George Town and Melaka – the paperwork, inventorying, filing and so on all require...
In Search of a Place to Call Home
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In Butterworth, 10-year-old Mohamed Noor is playing football with his friends in an alley behind a row of shophouses. The children are speaking fluent...
Not Just Passing Through: Marine Mammals Are Native to Our Northwestern Shores
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MANY MOONS AGO, as a young post-doctoral scientist just returned to Malaysia after a decade of studying abroad, I was looking for a site where I could begin my...
Blue Carbon: A Fragile Defence Against Climate Change
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LIGHT SPILLS ACROSS the still waters of Middle Bank, one of the largest groves of seagrass in the Strait of Malacca. Crabs and cockles find shelter beneath undu...
Interview With Nik Nazmi: Moving Malaysia Towards Renewable Energy
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When Nik Nazmi became the Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change (NRECC), a ministry with one of the broadest portfolios, he had to hit t...
Carla’s Peak: A Gem on the North Coast of Penang Island
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THE PICTURESQUE NORTH coast of Penang is the poster child for the island’s natural beauty, featuring golden beaches flanked by steep, densely forested hills. Jo...
Plastics Are Strange Presences, and They Are Not Going Away Anytime Soon
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WITHIN THE BEAUTY and bizarre logic of plastic is the potential it projects. It heralded multitudes of possibility in form, chemistry and design. The mass produ...
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