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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

Penang in the Age of Social Media

12 min read

In the twenty-first century, snail mail has become old school and social media platforms have taken over in connecting the world. The intricate term “so...

by Alexander Fernandez

Speedy Growth for Cruise Tourism

14 min read

Cruise ships docking at Swettenham Pier.The weak ringgit, attractively priced hotels and George Town’s inscription as a Unesco World Heritage Site h...

by Regina Hoo

Outraged Enough to Go Vote or Cynical Enough to Stay Home?

12 min read

So many bizarre and inconceivable things have happened in recent years to damage Malaysia’s international reputation and self-image that, for a mortified...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Are We Happy with Our Buses or Are We Not?

17 min read

Public transportation in Penang dates back to the 1880s, when the first steam-powered tram, measuring 12.5km, ran from Weld Quay jetty to Air Itam Road, with...

by Ernest Mah Herh Sun