Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 35)

Reinvigorating the Local Tourism Scene With the World’s Longest Zip Coaster

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“WHEN LIFE GIVES you lemons, you make lemonade,” Sim offers up the trite expression when talking about the curveball Covid-19 had dealt to the tourism industry....

by Joel Teh

The Sharp Turn from Tourist to Traveller

5 min read

HAVE YOU SEEN bus-loads of tourists disembarking at places where you, as a local, wouldn’t personally patronise? It usually has some tell-tale sign: an obscure...

by Timothy Choy

Timothy Choy

The Crag Hotel: The Beginning of Penang’s Medical Tourism

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 CONTRARY TO POPULAR belief that regards medical tourism as a product of the modern healthcare system, the beginnings of medical tourism in Penang can be t...

by Enzo Sim

How We Now Holiday, Post-Covid-19

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TRAVELLERS ARE SEEING green after the Covid-19 pandemic ‒ no, not green with envy, but in the literal sense with nature. When international borders shut after t...

by Rachel Yeoh

George Town Festival Tests the Digital Waters

4 min read

Teochew Puppet and Opera House is a long-time performer for GTF.PENANG WOULD HAVE been a hive of activity last July, with preparations in full swing for t...

by Regina Hoo

The Troubled Malaysian Book Trade and its Possible Recovery

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2020 WAS SUPPOSED to be a robust year for the Malaysian book trade, but that is not to be. The Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair (KLIBF) was postponed by sev...

by William Tham

How the Medically Ailing Survive the MCO

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PEOPLE LIVING WITH health anxieties and existing medical conditions had enough to be anxious about without Covid-19, but the Movement Control Order (MCO) brough...

by Emilia Ismail

MCO Highlights Malaysia’s Lack of Mental Health Services

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THE PANDEMIC HAS been a bewildering time for most of us; and some have also experienced a decline in mental health. In response to this new crisis, mental healt...

by Kim Evers

Kim Evers

Keeping Alive Penang’s Reputation as a Jewellery Design Centre

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RETURNING CUSTOMERS ARE always welcome, even if they arrive to the little shop at the corner of the KOMTAR Gold and Jewellery Centre with a list of detailed spe...

by William Tham

Penang’s Gold and Jewellery Trade: A Generational Shift is at Hand

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THE SUDDEN MARCH rush to buy gold took even Penang’s seasoned jewellers and goldsmiths by surprise. A few timely factors had converged, such as the loosening of...

by William Tham

Anecdotal Accounts of Chinese Women Migrants to Southeast Asia

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In Penang Monthly’s Campbell Street-themed issue, we explored how the street gained infamy as a prostitution hub (see August 2021, A Red-light District Worthy o...

by Dr. Kuah Li Feng

The Poetics and Politics of Main Puteri

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WITH TROUBLED THOUGHTS, Din Puteri leans against a corner post of the balai, next to a row of trays filled with offerings of eggs, yellow glutinous rice, banana...

by Izzuddin Ramli