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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...

by Kim Evers

Kim Evers

What is it Like Living in Penang’s Southwest?

12 min read

“LIVEABILITY” is quite a buzzword these days. But what does it mean really when we say that a city is liveable? What factors come into play? General...

by Jonathan Thong

Jonathan Thong

Tourism Development is Now Everyone’s Business – and Responsibility

8 min read

To restore visitors’ confidence, hygiene and sanitation have been catapulted to the top of the to-do list for many countries, and more iron-clad preventive measures have been introduced to guard against unwanted outbreaks. Malaysia is no exception.

by Pan Yi Chieh & Esther Ping Dominic & Lim Sok Swan & Yap Jo-yee

Esther Ping Dominic

Light at the End of the Covid Tunnel

7 min read

ON FEBRUARY 24, then-premier Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin became the first Malaysian to be inoculated with the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine; this marked the start of th...

by Enzo Sim

Introducing the Penang Walk Zones Project

10 min read

IF THERE IS one motto that Penang Monthly can use to describe its mission and vision, it is "Knowing Penang". That means capturing to the best of its ability al...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Online Schooling: A Necessity that is Not Yet a Virtue

7 min read

CAN ONLINE CLASSROOMS reap the equalising benefits of Education that previously eluded traditional learning? Or will it share the same fate? Whether it was read...

by Godharan s/o Thyagarajan

Godharan s/o Thyagarajan

How Far on Your Digital Journey Have You Come?

9 min read

PENANG’S GOAL OF becoming a Smart State is still a nascent one since the concept itself still lacks a single universally acknowledged definition, tending...

by Enzo Sim

“Listeners Calling”: Radio Enters its Second Century in Malaysia

14 min read

IMAGINE BEING ON the lookout for new music in the prewar days, and you had already exhausted the collection of the local S. Moutrie and Co. Ltd., local agents o...

by William Tham

Pet Healthcare Options in Penang

9 min read

ONE WOULD THINK that since afflictions such as gastrointestinal disorders, chronic kidney diseases and the Big C are suffered by both humans and mammals, that i...

by Regina Hoo

Continuing Penang’s Supply of World Sport Champions

9 min read

WHEN PLAYING FOOTBALL on the streets as a young lad, I always attempted to achieve Ronaldinho’s elastico or Ronaldo’s shimmy. Every kid in my neighbourhood was...

by Avineshwaran Taharumalengam

The Future Depends on the Creative Economy

11 min read

WHEN MICHELLE YEOH made history by being the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for her role in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and triggered a nationwide wa...

by Sheryl Teoh

Saving Our Schools

16 min read

At the beginning of the 1964 school year, teachers in a California primary school were told that some of their students had shown extraordinary results on an...

by Hwa Yue-Yi

Hwa Yue-Yi