Amused at Fort Cornwallis
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AT THE WATER’s edge, my soul sighs. This has something to do with the sound of waves. Things may seem serene, but I cannot forget the power the sea withho...
To Live and Let Live, You Need Sustainability Thinking
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THERE IS A persistent trend in the thinking of the people of Penang which is not easily named, but discerning it helps explain why civil society activism is so...
The SXI Spirit: Hard Work as Second Nature
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Editorial-cum-book review: Francis Loh Kok Wah, Cecilia Ng and Anthony Rogers: The Xaverian Journey: The Story of a Lasallian School in Penang, Malaysia 1787-20...
Can “The New Normal” be “The New Age”?
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AS EXAMPLES INCREASE of countries getting new spikes in Covid-19 cases, and as some sustained green zones in Malaysia, like Penang, start turning yellow, it is...
Refining Daily Social Behaviour is How We Individuals Get to Define the New Normal
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THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS that causes Covid-19 has been going about its deadly business for six months now. To date (July 10, 2020), 12,414,853 people have official...
Redefining the Global “New Normal” After Covid-19
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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...
How Much of a Crisis is Covid-19?
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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...
Balancing Mutualism with Legalism
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THE NOTION OF “Rights” is as close to the essence of politics as one can come in a word.This is because “Rights”, like “Respect&...
Fighting Covid-19 Helps Penang Take Charge of its Digital Future
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THE PENANG STATE Government has adopted “Next Normal” as the working term to denote the immediate post-Covid-19 era. This is exciting in that it pro...
A Sport is an Ongoing Search for Common Ground
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IT IS STRANGELY hard to decide what a sport is; and when we do settle on a definition, it is only acceptable if we do not consider the many forms of human activ...
Entrepreneurship Gone Sexy
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP. THIS IS a word more used than understood. But it is a word that is hugely popular today. It connotes some psychological quality that we wish t...
When the Artistic Impulse Becomes a Key Economic Asset
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“Creative Industries” is an elusive term. It reflects the postmodern condition, unsettling notions of modernity while signalling socio-economic and cultural shifts tied to 21st-century globalisation.