February 2015 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

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

Here, There and Everywhere with Thomas Powell

6 min read

How did English artist Thomas Powell's art end up half a world away from home, and what makes him so “Charles Dickens-y”? Penang Monthly catches up with the talented artist.

by Emilia Ismail

The Kelantan Floods

4 min read

Freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker Jules Ong was one of many to organise contributions of such aid to be delivered to blind spots in the coverage of flood relief efforts.

by Danny Lim

To Excel is to Stay Curious

3 min read

How often have we not woken up at 3am in the morning with a novel solution to pressing questions that we could not solve while awake? Interlinking, integrating, interlacing… that seems to be how the brain works, or at least when we let it work.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng