What Makes A Street Memorable?
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Let us start by exploring the urban landscape of Penang – the streets, the public places and the buildings there.
Traces of Penang's Role in the Age to Revolution
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LEBUH ARMENIAN AND Lebuh Acheen meet at Lebuh Carnarvon. I used to walk along either one of them each day on the way to work, picking the sense of history that...
Batu Lanchang Market Food Court Stays Afloat with Digital Ordering and Pick-up Service
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THE BATU LANCHANG Market Food Court may be decades old but the food vendors there are making sure the place does not close down because of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Designing Solutions for Social Change
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LEARN. IMBIBE. REGURGITATE. These are hallmarks of rote learning and its derivatives are wide-ranging, from the attrition of critical and creative thinking to a...
National History Based on Half-truths Undermines the Critical Spirit of the Young
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A NATIONAL HISTORY is never fixed and instead, tends to take on chameleon-like characteristics. Malaysian history is no different. Under colonial rule, the popu...
Pottery in Penang: A Folk Art with a Future
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To make pottery, one must understand the nature of Earth, of clay, more fundamentally. It starts with sourcing the right body from five main clay types: earthenware, stoneware, ball, fire and kaolin.
Wayang Kulit: Surviving Beyond the Shadows
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THERE WERE AROUND 40 people that night. Some of them had arrived from the nearby kampung and the town, and had settled comfortably on the mengkuang mats scatter...
The Steinway – The Jewel in the PPO’s Crown
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THE STEINWAY AND SONS is Penang Philharmonic Orchestra’s (PPO) most prized purchase.A serendipitous meeting with Karina Ridzuan, formerly the CEO of the...
Covid-19 Complicates Retirement Plans
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THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL crisis of 2008 had a brief negative impact – through asset values and inflation – on retirement savings, but luckily in Malay...
Parenting in a Pandemic: Tension, Stress and Guilt
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NO INSTRUCTION MANUALS nor guide books were available on “How to parent under lockdown”, especially not in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic....
The Way of Kueh
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“I’VE BEEN WITNESSING a detrimental culinary trend taking place in Singapore over the years; our kuehs are slowly being forgotten by the younger gen...
A Rocky Road to Economic Recovery
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DISCUSSIONS AT THE Penang Economic Outlook 2021 webinar organised by Penang Institute on January 27, 2021 made it clear that industrialists and think tankers ar...