The Poetics and Politics of Main Puteri
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WITH TROUBLED THOUGHTS, Din Puteri leans against a corner post of the balai, next to a row of trays filled with offerings of eggs, yellow glutinous rice, banana...
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.
A Literary Festival Celebrating Cosmopolitan Confluence
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Mikro-cosmos, an enduring connection forged through language, literature, words and ideas, informs the theme for the George Town Literary Festival this year, ha...
Where Does the Line Go in “Sharenting”?
4 min read
“Sharenting” can be defined in dual terms. One, as a congregation for parents on social media to share experiences and stories of their children in exchange for support and advice; and two, the more contestable issue of oversharing child-focused images and content.
Penang-born Precision Engineering Firm Continues Moving Up the Value Chain
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KOBAY TECHNOLOGY HAS as its core business highprecision engineering, with peripheric tradings in property development. It was founded as Polytool Technologies i...
Growing Pains for Penang’s Gaming Industry
4 min read
WHEN MALAYSIA ANNOUNCED its first lockdown last March, gamers scrambled to purchase video game CDs and game consoles, with retailers like Game Tag and Impulse G...
A Brief Explanation of Content and Algorithms on Social Media
6 min read
YOU ARE SITTING at your computer reading about an 8-year-old earning millions on YouTube, while another 20-something-year-old just became the next international...
The Swelling World of the Influencer
3 min read
INFLUENCER CULTURE HAS become a major phenomenon. Scroll through your Instagram feed and most likely for every third photo you see, a “sponsored post” will appe...
Grit, an Entrepreneur’s Currency
3 min read
“I THINK THE essential quality hasn’t changed, but at this point, it’s probably grit on steroids,” muses Tony Yeoh, CEO of Digital Penang (DP). We are discussin...
Surveying the Lower Slopes of Penang Hill
6 min read
AFTER THREE MONTHS of the many MCO phases, Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow finally announced that recreational parks and hiking spots were to be reopened on...
ESCAPE – Making Tourism Sustainable by Maintaining High Standards
4 min read
TUCKED DEEP IN Teluk Bahang is the kampung-concept theme park ESCAPE, the brainchild of chief ESCAPE officer Sim Choo Kheng. Inspired by his childhood adventure...
Helping George Town Businesses Go Digital
3 min read
A LIFESTYLE SWITCH can be difficult, which is why the “George Town in the New Normal” project was introduced. To cope with the economic toll brought...
Penang’s Tourism Players Needing All the Resourcefulness They Can Muster
4 min read
“PIVOT” is a fashionable term in tourism these days. It suggests a need for recalibration as local players scramble to appeal to a different market...
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