August 2019 - Penang Monthly

Opening Art Up – An Island-wide Welcoming of the Public into the Studio

7 min read

It was a weekend not to be missed for art lovers and aesthetes. Open Studios Penang – a festival that celebrates the paint and brush, and the artists behi...

by Regina Hoo

A Jungle in a Bottle, Anyone?

6 min read

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...

by Alexander Fernandez

Swedish Firm Brings ERP to Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs

6 min read

As businesses aim to increase productivity and decrease cost, having a reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is one way to ensure production factor...

by Regina Hoo & Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

Penang’s Eurasians – Too Important to Be Ignored

6 min read

Known to locals as “Serani” – a contraction of the Malay word “nasrani”, meaning Christi...

by Alexander Fernandez

Standing Out, Fitting In, Rising Above

5 min read

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...

by Enzo Sim

Can the YCA Awards Keep Up with the Times?

7 min read

Afiq Faris (b. 1991, Selangor) Saka-Saka.Joy Ng Mei Lok (b. 1996, KL) SeedSo, the next young superstar in the Malaysian art firmament has been named...

by Ooi Kok Chuen

A Lifetime Passion for Stamps

3 min read

Anthony Chan Guan Fook.Tucked away at Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling is a hidden gem for stamp enthusiasts – or philatelics. L. C. Lee & Co has bee...

by Enzo Sim

Malaysian History as Told by Stamps

4 min read

Other versions of the Merdeka private cover.It was once dubbed the “King of Hobbies”. Stamp collecting was the craze when postal services we...

by Enzo Sim

Are Our SMEs Ready for Smart Solutions?

4 min read

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) form the backbone of Penang’s manufacturing industry, yet many are still very much rooted in tradition, applying proce...

by Regina Hoo

Daniel Häggmark: From Hälsingland to Penang

4 min read

At the MONITOR office, the meeting rooms are named after Swedish sports personalities.Daniel Häggmark, Managing Director of MONITOR ERP, is responsib...

by Julia Tan

Seri Teratai – Saved from the Ravages of Time and Termites

7 min read

An archway in the master bedroom has been revealed after the tearing down of an old, built-in cabinet.Commissioned in 1919 for Macalister & Co., Seri...

by Andrea Filmer

Andrea Filmer

The Deep Legacy of Indian Immigration to the Malay Peninsula

7 min read

The ties between India and Malaya go back millennia. Silappadikaram, 1 a second-century Tamil epic, highlighted that Tamil merchants were operating from a Mal...

by Preveena Balakrishnan