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Justin Heyes.Executed well, comedy is as much an art form as music, dance, theatre and visual arts, requiring passion, inspiration, thoughtfulness and rel...
January 2026
Our January issue explores how artificial intelligence is redefining work, security and everyday life, from the promises of automation and digital finance to the ethical questions it raises about creativity, ownership and the future of human thinking.
The Th’ng Tok: Dishes of the Long Table
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The kitchen bustles with activity in the days leading up to a th’ng tok event. The cacophony of knives cutting, slicing and chopping suffuse the atmosphere with the promise of a grand feast.
Innovations in Traditional Food Manufacturing
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In Chinese families, a bowl of hot herbal soup and a saucer of premium soy sauce are an almost-daily tableau on the dining table. Despite being traditional foods, manufacturing them has seen many rounds of innovation through the years, involving cutting-edge technologies.
Kenduri in Kelantan: Collective Feasts to Commemorate Life's Many Events
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SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, human beings have felt the need to commemorate special occasions—be it as individuals or communities. We celebrate the universal experien...
Penang Food at a Crossroads
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For a long time, I wondered how I, for whom street food is at the core of my culture and eating habits, can find a diet that satisfies my cultural taste buds while still meeting present-day healthy eating guidelines.
Appreciating and Defending Penang’s Glorious Local Food Supply Chain
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Grocery shopping at wet markets as an innocent longstanding lifestyle scarcely received any notice in international news until early 2020 when Western media began targeting “wet markets” at large, once it was discovered that the Covid-19 virus likely emerged from the wildlife market at Wuhan.
Will the Market for Art Ever be the Same Again?
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BRICK-AND-MORTAR art galleries are hugely impacted by the novel coronavirus pandemic because of the lockdown and the consequent economic crunch.Poster of We...
A Malaysian Artist Under Lockdown in Italy
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My front door is open, the sun is shining, the birdsong is loud and amazingly, an enormous swarm of bees has just flown by. A dark cloud that hummed so loudly that I thought a big, slow-moving tractor was driving past.
Opening Art Up – An Island-wide Welcoming of the Public into the Studio
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It was a weekend not to be missed for art lovers and aesthetes. Open Studios Penang – a festival that celebrates the paint and brush, and the artists behi...
A Jungle in a Bottle, Anyone?
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Ever seen mosses and ferns inside a laboratory flask, and done a double take? What you would have been observing was a self-sustaining enclosed ecosystem &ndash...
Swedish Firm Brings ERP to Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs
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As businesses aim to increase productivity and decrease cost, having a reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is one way to ensure production factor...
Penang’s Eurasians – Too Important to Be Ignored
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Known to locals as “Serani” – a contraction of the Malay word “nasrani”, meaning Christi...
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