All posts tagged "Penang"
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2.9KCultureIn 1786, Francis Light didn’t actually take control of Penang. He ‘rented’ it from Kedah.
Most of the time, we think we know everything about our country’s history, what with five years of studying our Sejarah textbooks...
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3.0KBusinessM’sia’s state govts made their own contact tracing apps, so we downloaded them to try
As you probably already know, Covid-19’s a virus that can spread really easily and rapidly. And a lot of Covid-19 cases can...
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1.2KCultureThis small Penang shophouse is where Dr Sun Yat-sen planned the end of the Chinese empire
Special thanks to the Sun Yat-sen Museum in Penang. The exploits of China’s revolutionary first President, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, are legendary. Known as...
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551CultureHere’s why were there hundreds of protesters in Penang this morning
(This article originally appeared May 2019, but has been updated following recent developments.) There’s this old saying that we just made...
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1.0KCultureNine Emperor Gods Festival: What is it, and why are devotees running around in a trance?
During the last week or so, you might have noticed traffic on major roads moving slower than usual because of very, very...
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1.3KArtWe walked upstream along Penang’s Prangin ‘river’. Here’s what we found
We’ve all seen it: the image of the crystal-clear Prangin Canal in Penang with koi fishes swimming in it, with the caption comparing...
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414Business6 unsolved cases the ‘new’ MACC might want to investigate
The appointment of lawyer and human rights activist, Latheefa Beebi Koya, as the new chief of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has...
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530HistoryPeople thought this Penang fort didn’t fire gunshots.. until old cannons were found
PS: If you’d like more stories like this, please subscribe to our HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH Facebook group. 🙂 Universiti of Sains Malaysia (USM)...
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789Culture4 things at the Penang Bridge that might need some improvement
It’s a couple of harrowing days for Malaysians as we’ve been engrossed in the saga surrounding the Penang Bridge crash. On social...
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293CrimeOMG, this Malaysian state is kinda becoming that scary Black Mirror episode… like China
Sometime last year, we pretty much freaked out when China literally turned into one of Netflix’s Black Mirror episodes (uh… this isn’t a sponsored...