Must We Stay Victims of Past Strategies?
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From August 2, 2011, the name of the research centre that produces this magazine is changed from SERI to Penang Institute.While there are several reasons fo...
To Leave is a Basic Right
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COVID-19 HAS killed over 1.5 million people worldwide, crippled huge segments of the economy and made fear for our individual safety a nagging concern. Masks an...
More Federalism, Less Centralism
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Malaysians are known to be multilingual as a rule, especially in urban or semi-urban areas where flows of cultures mingle.This mingling can take place in an...
The Search Engine Revolution
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I remember fidgeting for endless hours on the Internet back in the mid-1990s. To be honest, that was the reason why my studies took so long to complete.The...
Top Policy Priorities in the Wake of the Crisis
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AS COVID-19 steadily dismantles the Old Normal, our uncertainties get more and more focused on basics. No longer do we worry as much about that continually post...
Literally Peaking
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Indeed, becoming literate used to be one of the best career moves anyone could make. In ancient China for example, extended families would concentrate their r...
Bookstores and Our Weak Sense of Self-worth
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In Ireland, there is a strong sense of cultural pride and identity in its bookstores. But can the same be said for Malaysia and Singapore?
Gender Relations: A Wrestle or a Dance?
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SOCIOLOGY IS THE study of how a certain society functions, and central to that ambition is the study of how different genders relate to each other in that socie...
Nicol David: So Much Done, So Much to Do
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DATO’ NICOL DAVID was the first famous personality to be profiled by Penang Monthly. This was in February 2010, in the magazine’s third issue, in an...
Turning isolating distance into social space
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Like people in most developing countries, Malaysians suffer automobiles not only as a necessary tool for modern living, but as a purported key driver of the economy.
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Anwar Fazal: Seeing New Possibilities for Social Activism Post-Pandemic [PART TWO]
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PENANG MONTHLY CONTINUES the conversation with Penang’s most prolific social activist, Dato’ Seri Dr. Anwar Fazal, on social activism, on having a p...
It’s been an exhilarating year
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The revamped PEM has now been around a year since the preview issue came out in September 2009. The response has been consistently good.