Life on the List
14 min read
Puan Maimunah Sharif.ENOUGH TIME has now passed for PEM to start asking what the most signifi cant and most noticeable changes are. We also wish to find o...
Keeping Penang watered
15 min read
IT HAS BEEN a busy couple of months for the Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP, more commonly referred to as PBA). On December 28, 2010, the water company c...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...