Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 62)

A Silat Performance to Awe the World

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The George Town Festival 2012, under the directorship of Joe Sidek, opened on June 15, under a “starry starry night” with a spectacular performance of “Silat: Our Heritage for the World” at the Fort Cornwallis open theatre in George Town.

by Wazir Jahan Karim

Wazir Jahan Karim

Buying Property is No Stroll In The Park

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Penang is in a property boom at the moment with a record number of development projects being found on both the island and the mainland. This trend will most...

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Is Sharing Home Ownership The Way Out For Penang?

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Public housing in East Asia has traditionally been distinct from European social housing. A Unitary system in Western Europe stems from a conception of social w...

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Who Wants to Be A Tech Entrepreneur?

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Michael was very nervous. There was only an hour left before he had to present his project and he hadn’t finished preparing. Worse still, his total time f...

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Growth Plans Must Include Disaster Risk Reduction

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The Asia-Pacific remains a very vulnerable region. Eighty six per cent of its total population were affected by natural disasters, accounting for a staggering...

by Dr. Lee Khiam Jin

The Mixed Impact of The Heritage Listing

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The most obvious place to start when assessing the impact that the Unesco World Heritage Site (WHS) listing has had on George Town over the last four years is t...

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Can Penang Port be Saved?

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From its establishment as a British settlement in 1786, Penang, with its sister settlements Malacca and Singapore to the south, enjoyed the status of a free por...

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Tackling The Brain Drain

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Talent Corporation Malaysia BerhadTalent Corporation Malaysia Berhad (TalentCorp) was set up to strengthen public-private sector collaboration in widening and...

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Real Democracy Requires Democracy in Planning

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When I attended the One-Stop Centre (OSC) committee meeting earlier this year, one of my long-held suspicions was confirmed: development planning really is elit...

by Steven Sim

Major Changes Await the Botanic Gardens

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The Penang Botanic Gardens, sometimes known as Waterfall Gardens, is a 72-acre garden established in 1884 on an old granite quarry. As beloved as it is though,...

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Tantalising Taiwan

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We encountered quite a few raised eyebrows when we told people we were off to Taiwan for a week. The questions were politely pointed; “What about the lang...

by Sumitra Selvaraj

Rasa Sayang Goes Another Shade Greener

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“Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is our way of life,” stated Elaine Yue, general manager of Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort & Spa, P...

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