Small Community, Big Legacy
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Eustace Nonis.Economist Eustace Anthony Nonis was born and raised in Penang, and has St. Xavier’s Institution as his alma mater. It was also in Pena...
The Nyonya Craze Continues
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It has been a decade since the Singaporean drama, The Little Nyonya, hit airwaves in 2008. Set in the 1930s and spanning a period of 70 years, the melodrama fol...
A Guardian of Acheen Street
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Sheikh Omar was a man with many social roles: he was a religious and community leader, scholar and trader. He is famous for the fatwa he issued in 1867 which prevented the influence of secret societies from seeping into the religious order.
Penang’s Demography in Numbers
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In general, the size of Penang’s population is expected to expand substantially for elderly persons. This is evidently shown in Figure 1 where the pop...
All the World’s a Stage, and Who Else but We are Responsible for the Upkeep of the Theatre
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All things change. We can all agree on that. But what the density and swiftness of change in modern living have taught us is that there are harsh limits.We ar...
