July 2020 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

One Man’s Food Waste Can be Another Man’s Meal

5 min read

UNCLE TEOH TAKES out his knife and cuts off the bottom end of the radish that has gone bad. He tears off the lettuce leaves that have browned and puts them all...

by Kristina Khoo-Rhodes

A Good Time to Adopt the Industrialised Building System

3 min read

THE PANDEMIC PRESENTS an opportunity for structural improvements to the economy. In the construction sector, the time is indeed ripe for an evolutionary step to...

by Wong Teik Aun

How Much of a Crisis is Covid-19?

3 min read

THERE ARE MANY levels to a crisis. What is sometimes called a crisis is often merely a serious problem. Personally, I would prefer that the word be reserved for...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Redefining the Global “New Normal” After Covid-19

3 min read

PUNDITS ARE COMPARING the Covid-19 pandemic to the “Spanish Flu” of 1918 to tease out lessons for how to combat future pandemics.However, the worl...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng