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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Planting Seeds of The Future in Balik Pulau
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“The 21st century witnessed the beginning of the end of the age of industrialisation, driven by the forces of capitalism,” said Prof Tay Kheng Soo...
