Feature - Penang Monthly (Page 77)

Malaysian Skinheads Against Racism

6 min read

Why would a bunch of KL kids who listen to Western Neo-Nazi bands such as Angry Aryan, but clearly aren’t Aryan themselves, adopt a worldview that specifically discriminates against their own race?

by Marco Ferrarese

The costs of inequality: Not just a case of “poor envy”

6 min read

In 2014, “inequality” was undeniably the buzzword in the public policy domain, partly thanks to Thomas Picketty’s unlikely bestseller, Capital in the 21st Century.

by Nicholas Chan

Does Malaysia’s animation industry have a future?

8 min read

There is much to see when we look east. As kids, many of us would have wished for a robotic blue cat with a magic pocket, or at least a desk with a drawer that...

by Ch’ng Chin Chin

The punk artists of Mount Kinabalu

6 min read

About 100km away from Kota Kinabalu, I find myself standing inside a sunscorched country house, looking at a line of A3-sized posters hanging on the walls.About...

by Marco Ferrarese

Probing root problems with music, the Kareem Salama way

5 min read

Kareem Salama had what he called a “very traditional American upbringing” in Oklahoma. His Egyptian parents, both engineers, migrated to the US in t...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Penang able to handle the heat

7 min read

It is widely known that Penang aspires to become a regional education hub. In addition to Universiti Sains Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Mara, the state is...

by Matthew Tan Kiak Hin

Federalism arrested

7 min read

On September 16, 1963 a covenant was forged between the peoples of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore, resulting in the creation of a new sovereign nation cal...

by Zairil Khir Johari

City Status Is a Matter of Status – and Expectations

5 min read

What’s in a name? Does George Town smell any less sweet now that the city status encompasses the entire island of Penang?

by Julia Tan

Plan, plan and you will succeed

7 min read

“If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” From small undertakings to the creation of cities, this holds true and many have found themselves in unfortunate predicaments with few solutions when things are not properly thought out on the drawing board.

by Andrea Filmer

An Air Ferry for Penang

6 min read

With two bridges linking Penang’s island and mainland, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng now looks towards an aerial connection to stitch more tightly the state’s two halves together.

by Andrea Filmer

Building Batu Kawan Brick by Brick

10 min read

The vast and vacant territory of Batu Kawan – formerly a backwater – is now buzzing with activity and anticipation. It lies at the start of the Second Penang Bridge which opened just over a year ago.

by Andrea Filmer

Bukit Mertajam Offers Some Rare Authenticity

6 min read

Bukit Mertajam might be well off the tourist map, but it has much more to offer than what its reputation as George Town’s satellite suggests. We take a walk to the town’s centre and meet its protagonists.

by Marco Ferrarese & Chan Kit Yeng