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.

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Penang State Art Gallery Gets a Windfall of Masterpieces

7 min read

ANOTHER LARGESSE of artworks, 330 in all, has been donated by Datuk Dr. Tan Chee Khuan to the Penang State Art Gallery (PSAG). The magnanimous collection is val...

by Ooi Kok Chuen

Pianist Foo Mei Yi: “Enjoyment of Music Makes the Musician”

4 min read

Foo Mei Yi took to the piano instantly, and as she grew, so did her passion for music. Encouraged by her parents, she enrolled at the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music in London.

by Sarah Daniel Jacob

Will the Pandemic Raise Awareness of Penang’s Need for a Proper Concert Hall?

4 min read

THE PENANG PHILHARMONIC Orchestra (PPO) held its last publicised concert on March 1 before its plans for the year ahead was forced to be on a momentary interlud...

by Cheah Mi Chelle

Penang Needs to Develop Public Appreciation of the Performing Arts

4 min read

Conversations with local performers reveal commonalities in their artistic journeys. In order for practical solutions to be worked out, more light needs to be shed on why the performing arts are floundering in Penang.

by Cher Yee Xin

Peri-urbanisation in Penang: A Potential to Exploit or a Threat to Overcome?

3 min read

PERI-URBANISATION DESCRIBES the transitional process of an area peripheral to urban centres, the end result of which boasts an interesting blend of rural and ur...

by Syafiqah Nazurah Mukhtar

Buying a House in Penang to Retire To

7 min read

I HAVE TO admit, I have not always liked Penang. I had been somewhat fond of it, but this had been more for sentimental reasons; I met my wife there as an under...

by a Future Penangite

a Future Penangite

Being Aged in Penang Today

5 min read

Ray Rozells.PENANG IS OFTEN regaled a paradise for retirees. But conditions differ greatly, as one would expect. Penang Monthly interviews a few aged resi...

by Kelvyn Yeang

Liveability in Numbers

5 min read

Income and Distribution Of the five districts in Penang, the southwest (BD), north Seberang Perai (SPU) and central Seberang Perai (SPT) districts experienced...

by Ng Kar Yong & Yap Jo-yee

Ng Kar Yong

Covid-19 in Penang: Part Two

3 min read

JULY 2020July 28The Sivagangga cluster originates from Kubang Pasu, Kedah. It is identified that the index patient of the cluster is an owner of a nasi ka...

by Enzo Sim

Farms in Town to Inspire Green Thinking

4 min read

THE UN PROJECTS that by 2050, about 75% of the world population will live in cities; and 90% of this increase will take place in Africa and Asia. Presently, 75%...

by Enzo Sim

Overcoming Challenges to Water Reuse

3 min read

LIMITED ENGINEERING AND social feasibility still hinder many countries, especially in the Global South, from fully implementing urban water reuse. Ideally, urba...

by the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia

the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia

Penang Must Save Her Seas

5 min read

PENANG EXEMPLIFIES THE Malaysian image of a maritime nation. It is the product of a people whose communities were shaped by a shared culture and history that is...

by Assoc. Prof. Gs. Dr. Anisah J. Lee Abdullah

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