CEMACS: A Little-known And Highly Effective Research Centre
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CEMACS houses the largest collection of hard coral and marine invertebrate specimens in the country.The CEMACS field station is equipped wit...
Penang Pushes Ahead with its Gender Inclusiveness Policy
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In January this year, the Penang state government announced that it had tabled and passed a Gender Inclusiveness Policy aimed at building an inclusive society i...
Ensuring Prudent Growth in Penang
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Globally, the concept of “sustainable development” has been debated and promoted for more than four decades. The flagship initiative is the UN&rsq...
Interview with Dato’ Seri Maimunah Sharif: Changing the World – City by City
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Penang Monthly celebrated the appointment of Dato’ Seri Maimunah Sharif as Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habita...
Can Penang Lead the Way in Sustainable Tourism?
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It has been 11 years since George Town was listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, and its tourism industry has since then flourished beyond imagination. No lon...
Losing the Religion that is Social Media
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Religious Elegance.City of Many Tales.It’s a tech-warped world we’re operating in today. The increasing number of social med...
Where Did Patriarchy Come From – And Does It Have Anywhere to Go?
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Late last year, Deputy Minister of Women, Family and Community Development Hannah Yeoh received a public comment on her Facebook profile asking her to wear lips...
Homemaking Fathers
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David* was working in a management consultancy when his first child, a daughter, was born. “My wife and I believed that we needed at least one parent at h...
Mothers – Queens of Our Hearts
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The saying goes that being a mother is the hardest job in the world – there are no sick days, no rest and no pay. Penang Monthly takes a look at three ins...
Opening Worlds through Translation
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It was, for the most part, translations that brought me to become a keen social and cultural observer, and a full-time fanatic of modern classic English literat...
Ride-sharing: Not Everyone’s Grabbing It
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Azri.In 2014, MyTeksi was launched in Penang. The company aimed to improve the safety and convenience of taxi rides, and by partnering with...
The Digital Journey Begins for Many Industries
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The digital wave of innovations has compelled industries across the board to digitise their operations and services to not only remain modern and rele...