Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 43)

Penang – A Rice Bowl State under Threat?

6 min read

Seberang Perai has undergone much urbanisation over the last decade. This has led to concerns over land use: warehouses, industrial plants and housing have risen up in the municipality’s landscape, replacing its sprawling paddy fields.

by Stephanie Kee

Green is the Agenda!

7 min read

The Penang Green Council (PGC) and Penang Institute mooted the Penang Green Agenda (PGA), a two-year policy-planning project aimed at formulating strategies and building resilient communities in Penang to meet and adapt to future environmental challenges by 2030.

by Chuah Sue Ann

Eco-engineering Penang’s Coastline

6 min read

As the human population rises, coastal areas become increasingly developed: more than 40% of the world’s population and 60% of the world’s largest c...

by Dr. Chee Su Yin

Empowering the Hearing Impaired

6 min read

The World Health Organization reports that 360 million people worldwide live with disabling hearing loss, and a staggering 32 million of these are children. In...

by Samuel Shee

Samuel Shee

Healing Penang Hill

6 min read

The railway track was badly affected by the landslide and the funicular train service was suspended.The freak storm on the night of November 4 battered Pe...

by Emilia Ismail

Lending the Lesser-abled a Hand

10 min read

The Cerebral Palsy (Spastic) Children’s Association of Penang (CPCAP), which turns 56 this year, houses a fully functioning school that prepares children...

by Andrea Filmer

Deriving Life from Venom

4 min read

It is called the “hundred pacer” because victims of its bite meet their death by the time they have taken their hundredth step. While the veracity o...

by Regina Hoo

Sun, Sand, Sea and ... Surgery?

7 min read

As many as 14 to 16 million people across the globe travel for medical reasons, be it for higher quality healthcare or affordability outside their countries o...

by Stephanie Kee

Taking Life in Their Stride

4 min read

Yong Ah Lan.“When I was first diagnosed with kidney failure, I felt so alone at the doctor’s office,” says Yong Ah Lan, a 40-year-old ba...

by Tho Mun Yi

The Storytelling Continues…

4 min read

 As a child, I looked forward to bedtime. Sleeping was of course always a pleasure, but that was not the main reason....

by Fatimah Hassan

Fatimah Hassan

Teaching Children to Code

4 min read

Are we shifting our focus from teaching children how to write, to teaching them how to code?“Since technology now dominates our lives learning basic com...

by Emilia Ismail

The Hainanese Influence in Penang’s Cuisine

9 min read

The Hainanese were among the last Chinese language groups to arrive in Malaya, when the other language groups had monopolised most of the trades. They ended up working for the British in their households and kitchens, eventually playing a major role in the local food and beverage industry.

by Dr. Ong Jin Teong