April 2021 - Penang Monthly

Laurence Loh: Raising Consciousness of Penang’s Heritage, Restoration by Restoration

5 min read

THE NAME LAURENCE Loh has over the past decades become synonymous to the conservation of cultural heritage, having saved many of Penang’s dilapidated hist...

by Enzo Sim

Enzo Sim

A Rocky Road to Economic Recovery

7 min read

DISCUSSIONS AT THE Penang Economic Outlook 2021 webinar organised by Penang Institute on January 27, 2021 made it clear that industrialists and think tankers ar...

by Yap Jo-yee

Letting Sound Play on Sight, and Vice Versa

7 min read

TO PARAPHRASE SHAKESPEARE, “If music is the food of love, paint on.”Visual artists in Malaysia are faced with a widening spectrum of creative expr...

by Ooi Kok Chuen

How MBSP Keeps Seberang Perai Cleaner

5 min read

THERE IS A long-held perception that Penangites are averse to 3D (dirty, dangerous and difficult) employments. This opinion was put to the test when in 2011, cu...

by Marcus Dip Silas

Malay Folk Remedies Live On

5 min read

The therapy room at Bekam Klinikal Pulau Pinang.THE MALAY PROVERB tak lapuk dek hujan, tak lekang dek panas – not weathered by rain, not scorched by...

by Aliya Abd Rahim

Aliya Abd Rahim

Penangite Launches Podcast Featuring Women Entrepreneurs

5 min read

MY LOVE FOR podcasts started almost a decade ago, when I bought my iPod from a duty-free shop at Changi Airport. Coming from an entrepreneurial background, my p...

by Krista Goon

Krista Goon

A School for Forward Tech Thinkers

6 min read

THE ROW OF heritage shop houses along Lebuh Acheh fronts a revolutionary school for new technologies. Forward School is the brainchild of tech aficionado Howie...

by Alexander Fernandez

Aga Khan Trust for Culture Aiding the Restoration of George Town’s Northern Coastline

8 min read

Islamic Cairo. Al-Azhar Park, a 60 ha garden near the historic city (completed 2005). Photo: AKTCIN LATE 2013 representatives of the Aga Khan Trust for Cu...

by Francesco Siravo

Francesco Siravo

Support Needed to Complete the Renovation of Penang’s Greatest Iconic Structure

6 min read

DESPITE BEING a Category I national heritage monument, Fort Cornwallis has for a long time been an underperforming tourism asset. That time may soon be over. Cu...

by Enzo Sim

Enzo Sim

Nicol David: So Much Done, So Much to Do

10 min read

DATO’ NICOL DAVID was the first famous personality to be profiled by Penang Monthly. This was in February 2010, in the magazine’s third issue, in an...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Penang Aims for Broad and Deep Digital Adoption

3 min read

DIGITAL PENANG (DP) WAS formed by the Penang State Government in the early throes of the Covid-19 pandemic last year. Its mandate was clear: to capture opportun...

by Regina Hoo

Fort Cornwallis: A Symbol of Fortitude More than of Conflict

12 min read

Crowds using the fort’s elevated glacis wall to get a better view of the Duke of Edinburgh during his visit to Penang in 1869.FORT CORNWALLIS IS und...

by Marcus Langdon