Middle Bank – Penang’s Central Park
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HISTORY seldom follows a distinct and predictable line of events. Contingencies, serendipities, good luck and bad luck, all come into play. Naturally, therefore...
The Future of Tourism—Only as Bright as We Make It
3 min read
SINCE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL became possible post-Covid, I have, for various reasons, been staying in at least five countries for substantial periods of time, inc...
E&E and E&E: Penang’s Two Economic Legs Showing Strong Muscles
3 min read
As with Singapore three decades later, Penang, on being taken over by the British in 1786, immediately depended on the benefits of being a free port. The contin...
Digital Literacy Should Be Pursued the Way Universal Literacy Once Was
4 min read
AT ITS MOST basic level, literacy is about the ability to read and write. But reading and writing is a goal to an end. It was to get us educated. Literacy leads...
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Penang Continues to Punch Above Its Weight
9 min read
PENANG MONTHLY starts a new series, where we, once a year, talk to the Chief Minister of Penang. We met up with YAB Chow Kon Yeow after lunch on Saturday, 4 Mar...
Can We Be Playful About Sport?
3 min read
ALL SOCIALLY-INCLINED animals start life by crying for food. Beyond that, they seek safety and comfort. After that, the need to train their bodies for the futur...
The Creative Economy Appears Devised for Penang
3 min read
THE TERM “Creative Economy” sometimes sounds like an oxymoron in that human creativity is more often than not associated with the arts, executed more for passio...
Creating a City of Culture Costs – But We Should Happily Pay
2 min read
Artists – be they painters or sculptors, musicians or even authors – need sponsors. They need patrons. In our commercial age, there is of course t...
Enough With Penang Food Already! What About the Drinks?
3 min read
Yes, Penang has amazing food, be it fusion or hybrid, street or mall, traditional or accidental. And yes, it has amazing desserts too, like the Penang Road te...
Penang Should Make the Most of Transiting Cruise Tourists
3 min read
I assume anyone reading this has some time or other been one of those strange global creatures, disliked by some for their transient but disruptive presence a...
It all seems so simple now...
3 min read
INTO THE GREAT dining hall, the children came. The guards at the gates do their best to keep as many of them out as possible, but they are too few, and the chil...
Naming Modern Means of Mass Transport
3 min read
In the age of speedy technological innovations, thinking up names for totally new things that are not created by Mother Nature but by this innovative ape we c...