Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 83)

Foreign Students Learning the Hard Way

6 min read

Increasingly restrictive policies related to the issuance of student visas have transformed Malaysia from a rising education hub to a foreign student’s worst nightmare.

by Marco Ferrarese

Shelter For Those Who Seek Their Way Back

5 min read

From 2000 to 2008, as many as 126,000 cases of drug abuse were reported in Malaysia. Each year brings approximately 14,000 new cases. These drug abusers tend to be young – over 71% of them range from 25 to 29 years old.

by Teo Sue Ann

Making Movies of the People, by the People and for the People

10 min read

With the great changes happening in electronic applications and networks, most things are, by definition, going through a transition. This is true for the film industry as well.

by Julia Tan

Capitalising on Innovation

4 min read

Mainstream innovation experts suggest that technological innovation in the R&D sector employing human capital and existing knowledge stock exerts a positive impact on per capita output in both emerging and advanced economies.

by P. S. Yeoh

P. S. Yeoh

Is Malaysia Becoming A Welfare State?

7 min read

With cash payments to the poorer classes becoming standard policy in Malaysia, questions have been raised as to the efficacy of such measures. How do they help the needy, and how is the political economy affected?

by Gerald Wu

Gerald Wu

Malaysian Skinheads Against Racism

6 min read

Why would a bunch of KL kids who listen to Western Neo-Nazi bands such as Angry Aryan, but clearly aren’t Aryan themselves, adopt a worldview that specifically discriminates against their own race?

by Marco Ferrarese

The costs of inequality: Not just a case of “poor envy”

6 min read

In 2014, “inequality” was undeniably the buzzword in the public policy domain, partly thanks to Thomas Picketty’s unlikely bestseller, Capital in the 21st Century.

by Nicholas Chan

Does Malaysia’s animation industry have a future?

8 min read

There is much to see when we look east. As kids, many of us would have wished for a robotic blue cat with a magic pocket, or at least a desk with a drawer that...

by Ch’ng Chin Chin

The punk artists of Mount Kinabalu

6 min read

About 100km away from Kota Kinabalu, I find myself standing inside a sunscorched country house, looking at a line of A3-sized posters hanging on the walls.About...

by Marco Ferrarese

Probing root problems with music, the Kareem Salama way

5 min read

Kareem Salama had what he called a “very traditional American upbringing” in Oklahoma. His Egyptian parents, both engineers, migrated to the US in t...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Penang able to handle the heat

7 min read

It is widely known that Penang aspires to become a regional education hub. In addition to Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Mara, the state is...

by Matthew Tan Kiak Hin

Federalism arrested

7 min read

On September 16, 1963 a covenant was forged between the peoples of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, resulting in the creation of a new sovereign nation cal...

by Zairil Khir Johari