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LEBUH MUNTRI IS a relatively quiet street that runs parallel to the bustling Lebuh Chulia, one of the main trading streets in George Town. Research suggests tha...

WE ARE BORN intuitive eaters; as babies, we cry out for milk when we are hungry only to push away the bottle after we are filled. But as we grow up, rather than...

Ti’s struggles border on stereotype for many Malaysian “housewives” or women who “do not work”. Unlike vocational women, they are seen as having no tangible achievements and thus not deserving of any measurable reward.

SHOWN, HIDDEN, CELEBRATED, hated. Our bodies have never been more scrutinised in recent years. From advertisements promoting remedies for underarm wrinkles, the...

THE PREVIOUS FEW articles on Chinese prostitutes in Penang Monthly cast light on the plight of early Chinese female migrants to Malaya and Singapore. These wome...

THE INCLINATION TO fixate on the learning of theories and concepts, instead of practical application, has been described as the loose cog in Malaysia’s otherwis...

TWO YEARS ON and with the emergence of new Covid-19 variants, pandemic fatigue has well and fully set in for Malaysians, leaving many vulnerable to burnouts.[1]...

INVENTED BY WARTIME nurses on realising that cellulose is better able to absorb blood from wounds than cloth, sanitary pads as we know them today entered mainst...

PEOPLE FREELY MOVED along the neck of the Malay peninsula before the 1940 Agreement was introduced which necessitated a border pass for crossing between British...

SHUHAIMI BABA’S “Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam” first premiered in cinemas in 2004. The film became a massive box office hit, instantly pushing Maya Karin, its l...