Farms in Town to Inspire Green Thinking
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THE UN PROJECTS that by 2050, about 75% of the world population will live in cities; and 90% of this increase will take place in Africa and Asia. Presently, 75%...
Flying into Malaysia during the Pandemic
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FLYING DURING COVID-19 can be an intimidating affair. The overall experience is fraught with uncertainties: what are the odds of catching the virus inflight? Ca...
Are Our Trishaws Doomed?
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Trishaw operator Koay Beng Hong owns about 50 trishaws which he rents out to peddlers at a fee of RM2 per month. It is no secret that most of these peddlers are homeless, but are still intent on making their own living.
Suffering the MCO in the Services Sector
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PENANG’S SERVICES SECTOR is a shadow of its former self. On top of an already flailing entertainment industry and a row of F&B outlets biting the dust...
Introducing Culture Shot! Ethnically Diverse, Musically Intergrated
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THERE IS SOMETHING inexplicable about Penang and its local communities that is conducive to the free-flow of distinctive artistic expressions. Culture Shot came...
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Chinese Tea Becoming Popular in Penang Again
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TO ENJOY A good cup of Chinese tea, much depends on how the leaves of the camellia sinensis plant is processed; through withering, oxidation, fixing or “kill gr...
Upgrading Penang’s Shopping Possibilities
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THE SHOPPING MALLS Gurney Plaza and Gurney Paragon along the popular Gurney Drive seafront promenade form the backbone of Penang’s luxury tourism. They ca...
End Vaccine Apartheid
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VACCINE COSTS HAVE pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue, with most low-income ones not even lining up. Worse, less vacc...
Still So Much to Learn about Long Covid
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FOR IVY CHAN, January 2021 will forever be remembered as the time she had a close call with death. She had developed a fever just before Christmas, and afraid t...
Absorbing the Ambience of the Peninsular North by Train
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THERE IS SOMETHING romantic about railways. In Penangite Wan Phing Lim’s essay, Slowly, Slowly into the Night, she documented her journey from Johor to Bu...
A Brief History of Money in the Malay Peninsula
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BEING A PLACE where the winds meet, the Malayan Peninsula has witnessed the use of many types of currency. For example, the Malacca Sultanate made use of wang p...
Tropical Spice Garden Evolves to Survive Covid-19
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PENANG HAS NO shortage of eco-tourism attractions. There is the Botanic Gardens, replete with a long history; the Penang City Park, formerly the Youth Park, whe...