Malaysia’s Refugees Are Not People in Transit
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Rohingya children.It’s difficult to tell apart a refugee and an asylum-seeker from an undocumented migrant or even a trafficked person; we are incli...
Forming the Future of Urbanity
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Penang Island Mayor Dato' Ar. Yew Tung Seang leading council officers to work during a Bike on Friday session.As mayor of Penang Island, Dato’ Ar. Y...
GTLF Continues to Cultivate Penang’s Curiosity
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Arts festivals and fairs are born with some pomp. They then grow, peak and, in some cases, fade away – the celebrated and long-running Penang Island Jazz...
Listen! Are Those Not Sounds of Borneo Echoing Down the Streets of Penang?
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With a name like Sada Borneo, one would think that the band had its start in Sarawak. But guess again.Sada Borneo was in fact formed in Penang, more specifica...
Our Children Need to Understand Sexuality
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Late August this year in the Klang Valley, an 11-year-old girl wrote a note to a boy in her school saying she wanted to have sex with him.“Please,&rdquo...
Letting A Teen Think Like An Entrepreneur
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It was not an easy competition to start with – beginning at the school level, it proceeded to the state level, and then national and international. Each c...
Embracing Life Despite Cancer
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At 17, Alicia Ong was excitedly on the precipice of adulthood when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), or in her words “the good s...
How Different the Kelantan of My Youth Was
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Our lives revolve around locating ourselves within the unfamiliar, and coming to terms with all the differences that we chance upon in our surroundings. There a...
Resisting the Post-Print Era
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The Tai Tong restaurant on Lebuh Cintra is an unusual place for a literary discussion, but it is where a friend insists on introducing me to a website that host...
A Balanced Society? The Planning Must Start Now
13 min read
This article first appeared in our September 2015 issue. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we put together for you in this issue some of our most...
China Cuisines Expand Penang’s Food Scene
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They are distinct somehow from our local Chinese restaurants. Perhaps it’s because most of them have signage purely in Chinese, loud and usually in red....
Feeding the Multitudes – at Sea and in the Air
5 min read
Large-scale food production involves complex processes ranging from menu-crafting and addressing a series of dietary needs, to ensuring safety and maintaining h...