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July 2024 – Busy with George Town Literary Festival

Dear Friends of Penang Institute,
Penang Institute, for the rest of the year, will be busy organising the George Town Literary Festival. As recently publicised, the theme is “Word on the Street”.

June 2024 – The Best is Yet to Come

Dear Friends of Penang Institute,
A decision has been made by the Board of Directors…

May 2024 – Visitors from near and far, for purposes far and wide

May 2024 was another busy and exciting month for us. Apart from Penang Monthly, three ISSUES were published…

April 2024 -Stay Informed and Stay Hydrated!

Penang has been going through the hottest period in living memory, and as predicted, April temperatures were record breaking…

March 2024 – Identifying Prerequisites for Stability and Sustainability

There is a conviction in the Institute that a stable and peaceful world in the future will depend on several factors…

February 2024 – Can We Sense What Our Common Purpose Is?

While working on, and discussing the process of “placemaking”, it became clear to us that the term is applicable as much to the establishment of creative spaces like…

January 2024 – A Dragon Year for Added Optimism

The new year has begun in haste, and the Institute continues to remain as vibrant and internationally connected as possible, with its events, connections and publications.

December 2023 – A New Year Calls For A New Sense Of Purpose

Entering 2024 feels much more promising than for any other year since 2020. In January 2020, as we reached the finishing post of Vision 2020…

November 2023 – More to look forward to in 2024 than in the last few years

Another year is about to begin, and there is more to be optimistic about than had been the case in the last four years…

October 2023 – Launching Mechanisms to Generate Synergy between Penang’s Brains and Brain Trusts

Penang Institute embarked last month on a new phase in its development. Convinced of the need for a quantum-leap upgrade in the public policy thinking ecosystem in Penang…

September 2023 – Excelling Is A Duty To Ourselves

Think tank work, to my mind, is a constant endeavour firstly to understand the ecosystem of the relevant location—in our case, the state of Penang within Malaysia and within the current world situation.

August 2023 – Back To Books, Forward To Books

The focus on Books in the Penang Monthly for August comes at a time when Penang Institute is actively reviewing how it can improve its Penang Studies Resource Centre (PSRC) to …

July 2023 – A New Mandate for Positive Development in Federalism and Inclusive Nation Building

This may be the newsletter for July, but this note is being written 4 days after the state election saw the Pakatan Harapan taking power for the fourth term in a row, albeit this time with Barisan Nasional as state (and federal) ally.

June 2023 – Spotlight on the environment and the economy

In recent weeks, much of the Institute’s attention has been taken up in two areas. Firstly, we worked with the Chief Minister’s Office to develop the medium-term economic action plan that we call Penang’s Strategy for Economic Ecosystem Development (SEED)…

May 2023 – Democracy Is Not Only About The Right To Vote, But It Is Nothing Without It

As the state election approaches, many things come to an end and many things lie in wait around the corner…

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