Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 54)

By George Town! A festival to inherit

4 min read

Penang celebrates its Unesco Heritage status with a pulsating fiesta. Performances by local and foreign talents will fill the whole month of July, giving no one an excuse for missing it.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Cleaner, greener Penang

2 min read

Will Penangites finally learn to use the mysterious orange object? “It’s not easy being green,” sang Kermit the Frog, it hasn’t been for Penang either, and the state once dubbed the “rubbish bin of the Orient” by a former prime minister has struggled to live down this label.

by Rosalind Chua

Rosalind Chua

Between faith and hope

7 min read

Forlorn letterboxes in a Rifle Range block.When Khoo Cheng See started the House of Hope five years ago, she had no idea what she was getting herself into...

by Rosalind Chua

Rosalind Chua

The 1867 Penang riots

6 min read

FORTY-YEAR-OLD Lieutenant-Governor A.E.H. Anson, a veteran of the Crimean War, had just arrived in Penang to take up the appointment in early June, about two months after Sir Harry Ord from the Corps of Royal Engineers became Governor of the Straits Settlements.

by Yong Check Yoon

Yong Check Yoon

Sign of The Times

5 min read

Penang's commercial property market is on the up and up with more new malls making their appearance. One new giant Penang . Times Square, developed by Ivory Properties is taking a brave new approach to retail and entertainment.

by Rosalind Chua

Rosalind Chua

The serious brain drain problem

18 min read

MALAYSIA SUFFERS a voluntary emigration of people of different races and religions who possess talent, skills and knowledge. Their decision to settle in other countries brings high economic costs to Malaysia.

by Teh Kim Woon

Teh Kim Woon

Secrets only ghosts can know

5 min read

Review of The Blue Mansion, a film directed by Glen Goei and shot at Penang's Cheong Fatt Tze mansion.

by Shakila Rajendra

Shakila Rajendra

Putting Penang’s waterfronts to work

5 min read

Penang’s history and development has always been linked to the sea. Since the British East India Company sailed into Penang’s coastal waters and established George Town on the island’s north-east tip, waterways have configured Penang’s development in fundamentals ways.

by Richard Ho

Richard Ho

Turning disability into a national asset

8 min read

Malaysia is signatory to numerous conventions on equal opportunities and equal treatment for disabled persons. However, Malaysian society has yet to give adequate thought to the productivity factor of disabled persons and whether they can be gainfully employed.

by Khor Hung Teik

Khor Hung Teik

Penang’s development still depends on the PDC

5 min read

Ever since the PDC was formed in 1969, it has spearheaded Penang’s development into a modern economy. The PDC’s groundbreaking industrialisation efforts included establishing Malaysia’s first Free Industrial Zone at the Bayan Lepas Industrial Park in 1972...

by Shahril Cheah

Shahril Cheah

Emilies of Emerald Hill

4 min read

Emily of Emerald Hill is a classic drama that traces the life, loves, travails (and recipes) of an overbearing Singaporean Nyonya trapped in her gilded cage.

by Ben Wismen & Rosalind Chua

Ben Wismen Rosalind Chua

What’s up with Penang properties?

8 min read

What Are The Key Factors that are bringing investors into the property market in Penang?There have been some recent significant changes, as can be seen in how...

by Khor Hung Teik

Khor Hung Teik