February 2021 - Penang Monthly

A Bright Future Awaits Oyster Farming in Penang

5 min read

A farmer handling baskets of oysters.Before the 1980s, oysters in Malaysia were mainly cultivated in the wild, harvested between mangrove roots and expose...

by Aliya Abd Rahim

Aliya Abd Rahim

Antibiotics in Animal Feed May Be on the Way Out

3 min read

WE ARE WHAT we eat, as the saying goes. We keep diligent tabs on our food consumption by studying food labels for their ingredients, nutritional values and bene...

by Liong Min Tze

Liong Min Tze

A Future for Fig Farms in Malaysia

3 min read

RESEARCHERS FROM the School of Biological Sciences at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have developed tissue culture techniques to produce healthy fig pl...

by Dr. Chew Bee Lynn

Dr. Chew Bee Lynn

USM Research Finds Worrying Infections in Penang’s Nutmegs

5 min read

Photo 1: A nutmeg tree in one of the fields in Penang.THE NUTMEG IS one of the most widely cultivated fruits in Penang, using an area of more than 50 hect...

by Dr. Hafizi Rosli

Dr. Hafizi Rosli

The Future of Food is Digital

7 min read

COVID-19 HAS BEEN putting some strain on Penang’s food supply. Although the state managed well on the whole, this challenge should serve as a stark remi...

by Negin Vaghefi

An Almost Run-of-the-Mill Trip from Singapore to Penang, circa 2021

7 min read

A sign marking the medical screening area at the Penang International Airport.A FLIGHT FROM Singapore to Malaysia is, by any and all accounts, a short one...

by Cian Sacker Ooi

Doctors Without Borders Working in Penang

5 min read

A little Rohingya girl at the entrance of the family home, wearing a T-shirt with the French words C'est la vie.THE SECESSION OF Biafra – a southeas...

by Enzo Sim

A Coconut a Day…

3 min read

Rangan Priakaruppan.THERE IS A makeshift stall along Lorong Abu Siti that bears no name yet locals who know of it flock to it, especially if the day happe...

by Sarah Daniel Jacob

Sarah Daniel Jacob

Do Suicides Plague Artists More than Others?

7 min read

A dark harbinger? One of the sordid Black on Gray Series painted by Mark Rothko before his suicide.ARE VISUAL ARTISTS by the nature and process of their c...

by Ooi Kok Chuen

Manifesting the Box Out of Which We Should Think

4 min read

Dreamer Series – Constitute by Low Chee Peng.Boxed In I (top) and Boxed In II (bottom) by Aboud Fares.WANTING TO THINK “outside the bo...

by Enzo Sim

What You Need to Know about the Replacement Penang Hill Special Area Plan 2020

5 min read

Volumes 1 and 2 of the SAP 2020.PENANG HILL, the state’s crowning jewel, is a top tourism destination rich in colonial history, an exquisite green l...

by Rexy Prakash Chacko

Survey Shows That Most Overseas Graduates Won’t Return Home to Work

4 min read

Shun Wen holds a Master's degree in International History from the London School of Economics.THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC has all but upturned carefully laid...

by Chan Shun Wen

Chan Shun Wen