Discover Penang Hainanese Food Before It’s Too Late!
5 min read
If taste can transport you into the past, then Hai Onn Restaurant is a special little time machine.
Aiming for Homes for All
10 min read
Childhood best friends Ming and Tan have a lot in common: their ages, careers as bankers and an unfettered love for chocolate.When it comes to housing choices...
More Women in Local Government Makes it More Relevant to More Voters
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The “lowest” form of government, the third tier of governance, the ones who examine drains and tend to trees – such is the perception of the r...
Making the Needs of Employees and Employers Meet
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Vocational education and training (VET) connotes pre-employment training, skills upgrading, retraining and remedial training, which are all meant to prepare ind...
Gen Y Homeownership 101
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Generation Y faces a dilemma – how does one find balance between the tradition of providing for ageing parents, and the modern urge to leave home early an...
Managing Changes in Tanjung Tokong
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It is one of the oldest villages in Penang. Known as Mukim 18, Tanjung Tokong was already a fishing settlement decades before Francis Light came to Penang.&ld...
The Little Big Hospital on the Hill
5 min read
The Mount Miriam Cancer Hospital (MMCH) in Fettes Park, Tanjung Bungah, gets the “Mount” in its name from the hill it sits on, while “Miriam&r...
Making Penang Their Home – By Cheering Up Others
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The sweet sounds of a four-part harmony choir fill the halls of orphanages, homes and charitable organisations twice a year whenever the International Women&rsq...
A Museum that Sounds Like No Other
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I texted Paul Augustin that I would be a little late to our appointment, mainly because Komtar had closed off parking that day for some reason and I had to leav...
Drawing on a Deeper World
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The Cheahs.Delwin Cheah, 14, is more accomplished than any of his peers. He has received letters of recognition from former US President Barack Obama and...
One More Nyonya Kuih for the Road?
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Some kuih took a good six years to get right while others took longer. The kuih lapis took about 10 years just to get right. According to Kei Vin, the conception of Li Er Cafe can be traced back to when his mother, Lee Ngau, was a child living in Paya Terubong.
Planting Our Green Future
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Global warming is real. Human progress over the past centuries has steadily led to the decline of the environment, measured through the quality of water, air and soil, UV exposure, disease, climate change and other direct and indirect impacts on our well-being.