August 2025 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

What’s So AmaZine About Zines?

5 min read

Somewhere between 2013 and 2015, Penang’s literary scene shifted. Not with a bang, but with a handful of stapled booklets, scrappy covers and stories that felt real in a way mainstream publishing rarely does. At the heart of it is Wilson Khor Woo Han.

by Nurul Natasha Amir

Remembering the Pacific War in Sabah

7 min read

On 17 January 1942, the Japanese navy invaded and captured the city of Sandakan. With the loss of the capital, North Borneo was surrendered, and was occupied by the Japanese for 3 years and 8 months.

by Joan Liao

Siti Zuraina Abdul Majid: An Archaeologist Who is A National Treasure

5 min read

One can only imagine the lonely path Siti Zuraina Abdul Majid has travelled as Malaysia’s first archaeologist, and one with considerable academic gravitas under her belt. A returning graduate from the UK, she was only 24 years old when she excavated her first site in the late 1960s.

by Carolyn Khor