This old suburb has shaken off its rough-and-tumble image, and is ready to become a dynamic township of the future.

Music is freedom, and none more so than jazz.

With the dialect in danger of disappearing, passionate parties step up and take charge.

Party like it’s 1899 With its Persian roots, Ghazal Party once captured hearts in Seberang Perai.

Langkawi-based writer, translator and publisher Jérôme Bouchaud reveals his literary journey.

It began as a support network for women living away from home.

A home, as well as hope, for abandoned and abused children in Penang.

A community’s efforts and some serendipity have kept the Church of the Assumption’s majestic pipe organ in tip-top shape.

KL's Pitstop Community Cafe is a whole new way of addressing homelessness.

Convenience stores double as charity portals to feed disadvantaged minors.

Editor Ooi Kee Beng chats with Marina Mahathir about what it means to be Malaysian today.

What might Malaysia’s political future hold?

In loving memory of a hotelier extraordinaire and a truly kind soul.

From P. Ramlee to pop-yeh-yeh, there's a book that captures the heydays of Penang's music scene.

Country music came naturally to Egyptian-American Kareem Salama.

We’ve been misunderstanding this crowd for far too long.

With 258 selected works and some 57 years of toil, artist Choong Kam Kow is finally getting his hugely deserved moment.

From urban crime to science fiction, local independent publisher Fixi is bringing sexy back in books.

Youth Today, an online events platform, has over 20,000 subscribers. It reveals the way the world is moving for the youths of tomorrow.

We take a look at what worked (and what didn't) at George Town Festival 2014.

Contemporary PAS toes the line between conservatism and progressiveness.

It may come as a shock to most people that cancer is now Malaysia’s third biggest killer, but there is hope.