Penang Institute Newsletters – Page 2

May 2021 – Being Creative Together

Penang’s economy depends greatly on the strength of its cultural heritage, which provides it with the power to attract tourists, to educate its young and to orientate itself in the…

April 2021 – Regional Matters Matter a Lot to Penang

There is always a danger for a small place such as Penang, and which always punches above its weight, to slip into parochialism and introversion. We saw that happening…

March 2021 – The Ending Of The Covid-19 Pandemic Begins

Since International Women’s Day falls on March 8, that month is strongly associated nowadays with women’s rights and welfare. Penang Institute highlighted that…

February 2021 – The Wave of Helplessness and Pessimism Ebbs

The vaccination of the Malaysian population has begun, and by all accounts, this is the beginning of the end of the Covid-19 pandemic that has changed the lives of everyone…

January 2021 – Hopefully Hobbling into the New Decade

The sighs of relief we all wanted to heave by January 1, 2021, was not to be. Instead, Malaysia entered a new wave in the spread of the Covid-19 virus as 2021 began. Although…

December 2020 – Beyond (Vision) 2020, More Individual Agency And Greater Sense Of Realism Needed

The year 2020 comes to an end, but Covid-19 will continue to haunt us all for some time yet even if the vaccines arrive. In many ways, looking back, 2020 haunted Malaysia…

November 2020 – Going Green in Penang

Covid-19 slowed down almost all economic and social activities, and as a happy consequence, more people may now be able to see that the environment is not alien to society…

October 2020 – The Future Belongs To Those Literate In Social Media And In Digital Technology

Covid-19 continues changing the world. As it looks, things will get worse before it gets better. And the political weakness of the ruling coalition/s can be expected to limit the…

September 2020 – Planning For A Future Beyond Covid-19

“With every crisis comes opportunities”. The saying is never more true than when the crisis is a protracted one. This is because there is then more time to study where…

August 2020 – Defining the New Normal

In the August issue of Penang Monthly, I wrote about how the New Normal is not something that we should passively accept. Instead, the Covid-19 pandemic which have caused…

July 2020 – Expanding Collaborations

Penang Institute is now functioning fully, and we have been complying with the required SOPs for the Recovery MCO as well as we can. As with the rest of society, such measures…

June 2020 – Towards Recovery

Covid-19 continues to grab the headlines worldwide as the pandemic travels the continents. The analyses on all possible aspects of the virus flood the Internet and social media…

May 2020

From 4 May 2020, the Movement Control Order (MCO) became the Conditional MCO, allowing for certain restrictions to be relaxed. Penang Institute re-opened its offices…

April 2020

Malaysia has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic with a Movement Control Order (MCO) which with several extensions, so far covers the period 18 March to 3 May…

March 2020

As one of Malaysia’s major think tanks, Penang Institute does its best to influence public discourses positively through network development, seminars and publications…

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