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The Winning Formula: Why Investors Choose Penang

17 min read

TO A FIRST-TIME VISITOR Penang can feel like it’s stuck in a time warp, caught between its colonial trading past and electronic manufacturing heydays; sandwiched between upper-tier cosmopolitan cities like Singapore and Shanghai and aspiring wannabes such as Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City.

by Rosalind Chua

Rosalind Chua

Innovating Up To Speed – Measuring Penang’s Innovative Capabilities

28 min read

RECENTLY, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the plan for the development of Greater Penang, which would comprise the state of Penang and extend to the Kulim High Tech Park and Perak industrial parks.

by Norlela Ariffin

Norlela Ariffin

Challenges for Malaysia’s Economy

11 min read

THE TOP MANAGEMENT in leading industries in Penang has been getting more and more worried over the last few years. Some of the most important prerequisites for continued development, they feel, are fading fast.

by Poh Heem Heem

Poh Heem Heem

George Town –Where Design and Culture Must Continue to Merge

10 min read

GEORGE TOWN CANNOT help telling a thousand tales. The “outstanding universal values” that emanate from its foundation of culturally informed design was noticed by Unesco, and earned it – together with Malacca – World Heritage status in 2008.

by Laurence Loh

Making A City Liveable The Secret Is Economic Growth From Below

17 min read

According to the Economic Intelligence Unit of The Economist, Vancouver topped the World’s Most Livable Cities list in 2011 for the second consecutive year based on five main criteria: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

by Chan Huan Chiang

Chan Huan Chiang

Paradise Being Lost, All Is Not Well on Penang’s Beaches

14 min read

YOU CANNOT SIT HERE, I just realised that,” Juergen Bosch says, looking at our surroundings as if for the first time, though we’ve been talking for most of an hour. The otherwise white sand is filthy, covered with dirt, detritus and the occasional plastic bottle and cigarette butt.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Marisa Heah

Marisa Heah

Entering New Territory With Open Tenders

11 min read

“What we really are is anti-corruption.” — Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan EngBy and large, it has achieved its objectives. Yet at the sa...

by Zairil Khir Johari

Alive But Not Well, The State of Penang's SMEs

15 min read

Plenty has been written about Malaysia being locked inside the so called middle income trap. The view is that the country is too expensive to effectively compet...

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Budget 2012 Reveals Malaysia’s Structural Problems

12 min read

Heavy handed or the “invisible hand”?The main economic purpose of government is to ensure the delivery of public goods –these being goods th...

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Think City Catalyst For Revitalising George Town

6 min read

Hamdan Abdul Majeed has reason to celebrate, the day of the interview also marks his fifth year working on what Khazanah Nasional1 has ambitiously dubbed the...

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Seberang Perai - The Adopted Child Matures

13 min read

A brief historyA peek into the history of the state clearly shows the reason for the neglect of Seberang Perai by the government of Penang. When Francis Light...

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The Common Good in Penang's Progress

17 min read

Is development good or bad?Private development, we are seeing with increased intensity in Penang, is actually a deal made between private business and its cus...

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