A Jungle in a Bottle, Anyone?
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Ever seen mosses and ferns inside a laboratory flask, and done a double take? What you would have been observing was a self-sustaining enclosed ecosystem &ndash...
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.
Swedish Firm Brings ERP to Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs
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As businesses aim to increase productivity and decrease cost, having a reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is one way to ensure production factor...
Penang’s Eurasians – Too Important to Be Ignored
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Known to locals as “Serani” – a contraction of the Malay word “nasrani”, meaning Christi...
Standing Out, Fitting In, Rising Above
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Fatin Amilin, 24, is more comfortable eating with a pair of chopsticks. She celebrates both Chinese New Year and Hari Raya, and enjoys eating Chinese delicacies...
Women Changemakers in Penang's Industry: Breaking Barriers and Driving Innovation
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A recent study published by Harvard Business Review (HBR) carried out thousands of 360-degree reviews. In it, women outscored men on 17 of the 19 capabilities that differentiated excellent leaders from average or poor ones.
Nature Breathes Better as Covid-19 Keeps Humans Indoors
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THE YEAR 2020 started off with a bang and with the promise of many good things to come. But in January bushfires ravaged Australia and concomitantly, Covid-19 w...
Working Mums Struggle to Manage Movement Restrictions
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OF THE MANY ways Covid-19 has changed the lives of working mothers everywhere, being at home while working, and educating and caring for the children may be the...
Data Privacy and Digital Trust
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THE DILEMMA OF limiting personal data privacy for the need to share information in the interest of public safety has heightened awareness of the issues involved...
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...
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...
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