With Sights Set on More Innovation
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KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, founded as Hewlett-Packard in 1939, established its presence in Bayan Lepas in 1972 with an initial total of 60 employees. Today, the 1.2...
Penang’s Fashion Industry Needs A Nudge in the Right Direction
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THE WORLD OF fashion is a vast wonderland sustained by passion, creativity and a wish to transcend normalcy. Fashion is best defined as apparel worn at a partic...
A Future in Penang for the Film Industry
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THE HISTORY OF Malaysian cinema began along Jalan Ampas in Singapore in 1933 with Leila Majnun, a rendition of a classical Persian story about two ill-fated lov...
Artists We Lost in 2019
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WORKS OF ART are invested with a certain immortality long after the creator dies. These are tangible and enduring, legacies imbued with the visions, manifestati...
Time to Reinvest in Chinese Art
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CHINESE INK painting was once a focus of Penang’s Chinese community, especially among groups passionate for Chinese arts and culture, during the 30s and 4...
Are Digital Disruptions Laying the Foundations for Holistic Education in the 21st Century?
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WITH DISRUPTIONS IN major industries changing the structure of daily economic life, all of us should sense very clearly by now that the education industry &ndas...
Turmoil and Tranquillity Set in Malaysia
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THE AWARD-WINNING film adaptation of Penangite Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists – now showing in Malaysian cinemas – entangles prota...
The Creative Industries as Cultural and Economic Catalyst
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In the normal practice of evaluating education through measurables and eventual market worth, the need to encourage creativity in students is often neglected as it is considered to be a talent that is inert, and not one which can be developed.
Creative Industries in Numbers
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THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES as defined by the UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are “those industries which have their origin in individual...
Crafting Ideas That Sell
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COPYWRITING IS VERY much part and parcel of the advertising industry in that it creates messages that sell. But the terminology is fast changing: “The pre...
Sculpturing Public Spaces
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FOLLOWING GEORGE TOWN’S listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the issue of public spaces has received much attention. Be it owned privately or publicly...
Handicrafts are More than Just Knick-knacks
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The handicraft industry was a thriving value-added service for Penang’s free port, but times have since changed. Previously hampered by slow production speed, the uniqueness of individual handicrafts is now threatened by mass production exacerbated by technological growth spurts.