Penang Food at a Crossroads
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PENANG’S STREET FOOD has always been a crowd- puller. Part of it has to do with Penang’s early history as a port. That inspired into being a smorgasbord of food...
Handling the Intangibles: Heritage Management in George Town
14 min read
The road to becoming a World Heritage site was not easy for George Town and Melaka – the paperwork, inventorying, filing and so on all require...
Looking Seawards: The Benefits of the Blue Economy Await Penang
12 min read
Penang’s economy, culture and environment are defined as much by the water that surrounds its shoreline as it is by the land on which its people live an...
The Future of Food is Digital
7 min read
COVID-19 HAS BEEN putting some strain on Penang’s food supply. Although the state managed well on the whole, this challenge should serve as a stark remi...
The Motorbike – Symbol of Penang and its Economic Vibrancy
7 min read
SEE THE AUNTY puttering on the three-wheeler Honda C90, dragging a cart of triple-mixed iced soya bean, “leong fun” and milo; the beverages slushing...
How the Young View Work
10 min read
MILLENNIALS AND GEN Zs are the largest age cohorts in the workforce; according to Statista, they now make up approximately 75% of Malaysia’s labour force.[1]Giv...
Is TVET Not the Obvious Key to a Vibrant Economy?
10 min read
IF THERE IS an issue pertaining to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), it is the bad reputation garnered among urbanite parents. “It is abou...
Getting Back on Our Feet, and with Back Held Straight
11 min read
DISASTERS – natural or manmade – tend to affect a limited geographical area.A typhoon cutting across the Philippines, like Typhoon Vongfong in May...
Musings on Penang, My Humble Cosmopolis
9 min read
SINCE ITS VERY founding, George Town has seen people of different nationalities, ethnicities and religions come and go mainly for trade and economic purposes. H...
The Paradox of Tourism Growth in Post-Covid Penang
9 min read
THE OUTBREAK OF Covid-19 exposed the Visit Malaysia 2020 campaign to significant risks. Three months into 2020, it was cancelled. Subsequent prohibitions on mob...
How Has Covid-19 Changed Mind-sets and Behaviours?
10 min read
AN END. The global population is anxious for a resolution to what has been a nightmare of a year so far. But as much as we look forward to a medical ending, i.e...
Youths and Climate Change: “We Didn’t Start the Fire”
13 min read
IT IS ANTICIPATED that Millennials will bear the full brunt of climate change in their lifetime. We live in the Anthropocene era, an age during which human acti...