Private Schooling Getting Popular
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With a system that empowers students, more and more Malaysians are putting their children in international schools.
Even Tastier Times Ahead
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For Diane Ong, the exhaustion she endured from rapidly opening two restaurants and an art gallery in Selangor turned into exhilaration when she was offered the opportunity to start a third eatery – this time, in Penang.
Fusing Modern Skills with Traditional Crafts
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Art festival Urban Xchange 2015 brought together young artists and traditional handicraft masters to re-imagine Penang’s heritage.
Filming the Intangible
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Film can be a very reflective and evocative medium that captures the uniqueness of a place and its communities. And that is exactly what the Kaki Lima Short Film Competition aims to highlight.
No Child Goes Hungry in New Taipei City
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In metropolitan areas, franchise convenience stores such as 7-Eleven and FamilyMart can be found practically everywhere. No longer content with selling instant...
Insidious Selfies: Should Leaders Act like the Rest of Us?
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Last year in May, President Barack Obama came to Malaysia for the first time. When he was here, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak couldn’t resist...
Fighting the Big C
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Hopes were high when former US President Richard Nixon first declared war on cancer in 1971 through the signing of the National Cancer Act. However, 45 years la...
Traditional Old Cures Find New Devotees
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Penang is culturally diverse, and it is quite natural that it has on offer a variety of traditional medicines including Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Mala...
A New Lease of Life for Traditional Puppet Theatre
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In a lean-to wedged between a temple and a cafe, the audience sits on plastic chairs, waiting. Plucked strings and wooden clappers ring out against the falling...
Penang Offers Much More for the Connoisseur than Just Hawker Food
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Over a Century of QualityFounded in 1856, Ghee Hiang is a heritage brand name which originated from China in the late Qing Dynasty. “We initially starte...
A Hospital that Puts Fun into Patient Care
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The "Dr Red Nose Program" at NTUH.What do you expect to see when you walk into the grounds of a prestigious hospital? Perhaps grandiose and legendary buil...
Awas! The Organising of Radical Malay Women
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Awas, Api and Geram demonstration held in Malacca on December 22, 1946.Popular history in Malaysia dictates that independence was won by the right-wing gr...
