Sprucing Up Penang’s Agriculture Sector
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IS MALAYSIA’S FOOD security guaranteed for the long term? The World Food Programme predicts that the global undernourishment and hunger will reach 840 mil...
Renewable and Efficient Energy Paves the Way towards a Green and Resilient Recovery
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IF THERE IS a lesson to be learned from Covid-19, it is this: local governments must make mainstream, through local development plans, consciousness about renew...
Using the Net in Urban Fishing
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UPON FINISHING HER diploma studies in programming and networking in 2010, Syahifah Hawa Zamzuri returned to her hometown of Penang. During one of her beach ambl...
Penang Enhances Governance and Prepares for Socio-economic Recovery (Sept-Dec 2020)
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Penang2030, C4: Accelerating programme delivery and institutional reformsThe Covid-19 pandemic continues to affect the world. The situation in Wuhan, China sh...
Can “The New Normal” be “The New Age”?
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AS EXAMPLES INCREASE of countries getting new spikes in Covid-19 cases, and as some sustained green zones in Malaysia, like Penang, start turning yellow, it is...
Refining Daily Social Behaviour is How We Individuals Get to Define the New Normal
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THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS that causes Covid-19 has been going about its deadly business for six months now. To date (July 10, 2020), 12,414,853 people have official...
A Good Time to Adopt the Industrialised Building System
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THE PANDEMIC PRESENTS an opportunity for structural improvements to the economy. In the construction sector, the time is indeed ripe for an evolutionary step to...
How Much of a Crisis is Covid-19?
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THERE ARE MANY levels to a crisis. What is sometimes called a crisis is often merely a serious problem. Personally, I would prefer that the word be reserved for...
Redefining the Global “New Normal” After Covid-19
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PUNDITS ARE COMPARING the Covid-19 pandemic to the “Spanish Flu” of 1918 to tease out lessons for how to combat future pandemics.However, the worl...
Malaysia’s Covid-19 Cases at A Glance
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JANUARY 2020January 24The first suspected Covid-19 case is detected in Johor Bahru among eight Chinese nationals who had earlier come into contact with an...
Fighting Covid-19 Helps Penang Take Charge of its Digital Future
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THE PENANG STATE Government has adopted “Next Normal” as the working term to denote the immediate post-Covid-19 era. This is exciting in that it pro...
Ramadan in the Time of Covid-19
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THE SPREAD of the novel coronavirus Covid-19 has brought the world’s social and economic movements to a temporary halt. At the time of writing, Malaysia&r...