When Pets Also Go on Vacation
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WHENEVER I AM asked why I gave up a well-paying, full-time corporate job to start my own business, my reply is always this: because I want to work at home with...
Managing the Passing of Precious Pets
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DEEP WITHIN THE sprawling tunnels of Egypt’s “Pet Catacombs,”[1] the remains of roughly eight million mummified pets – mostly dogs – have been discovered. ...
When Pets Make for Good Business
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MEET BATZMAN, a four-year-old Pomeranian. After breakfast every morning, his soft brown coat gets a thorough brushing before he heads into “work” – just like hi...
Penang’s Gorgeous Mangrove Ecosystems under Threat
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THE COASTLINE HEADING towards Balik Pulau is fortunately lined with mangroves. This salt-tolerant plant species described as halophytes, thrives in Penang's int...
Langurs: Primates on the Brink of Extinction
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ART CURATION IS not always only about aesthetic sense. Every now and then, mere visual appreciation is merged with, even submerged in, other much more pressing...
Penang’s Rich Nature is Free for All to Perceive – and Preserve
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MODERN HUMANS ARE very guilty of taking Mother Nature and her offerings of ecosystem services for granted. Industrialisation and urbanisation, despite having gi...
The Penang Botanic Gardens – A Green Gem Like No Other
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FOR NORMAL VISITORS to Penang, the Botanic Gardens, fondly called the Waterfall Gardens, does not rank high on their list of must-visit places. But this treasur...
Middle Bank: A Marine Sanctuary to Enrich the Future
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I CHANCED UPON an old British map of Penang from 1884 – it was a nautical chart of the sea. The Island's shoreline then resembled an irregular square which over...
Aquaculture: The Good, the Bad and the Restorative
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THE CENTRE FOR Marine and Coastal Studies (CEMACS) at Universiti Sains Malaysia is deep in research cultivating bivalves and seaweeds as natural bio-remediators...
A Cineplex Business that Intends to Survive the Crisis
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ENTERTAINMENT A CENTURY ago was found mainly in George Town. But in 1936, the Odeon cinema, founded by the Chiah family, opened to serve the Butterworth communi...
A Brief History of 123 Macalister
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The 109.38-hectare (ha) George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) contains more than 1,700 buildings, making it the largest collection of pre-war buildings i...
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Which Came First, the Chneh Hu or Pasembur?
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In the southern part of Malaysia, pasembur closely resembles the Indian Muslim or “Mamak” rojak. The Singapore Indian rojak is also similar to Malaysia’s northern pasembur or the southern Mamak rojak, but with several key differences.
