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Published 5 Jun 2018
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Fate of Pulau Jerejak lies in Penangites’ hands
The Public Forum – Pulau Jerejak Year: 2018 “Father told me that he would visit me once a week.” Lim Boon Nya was only 7 when she was diagnosed for leprosy. A contagious disease that affects the skin, mucous membranes and nerves, leprosy rampaged Malaya in the early 20th century. Back in t… Read more
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Published 14 May 2018
Climate Change: Penang Out of Time
1. Symposium On Sustainable Penang. Malaysia. 16 January 2018. “In time, Malaysians will catch up!” One of the young panels announced confidently. Promising ideas were offered by young panels in a symposium held in Komtar Tower, Auditorium A in Penang state of Malaysia. The topic was “… Read more
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Published 2 Apr 2018
Our Malaysia: Public Transport and Millennials
Fatima’s Honda Ex5 buzzed into the busy street of Puchong in Malaysia. She departed from her home with a foreign sense of anxiety. This was her first day taking motorcycle to Sunway City, where she worked as a salesperson. Sunway BRT had been her main mean of transport for the past few months. Howev… Read more
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Published 19 Mar 2018
How Environmentalism Will Take Us Home
Environmentalism may be depicted in mainstream media primarily as a battle for the Earth and to save ourselves from extinction. But that’s less than half of the story. Environmentalism, in effect, transverses beyond the physical plane. Environmentalism is a way of Life. One that questions and redefi… Read more
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Published 23 Jan 2018
Divestment Movement: Cutting Ties with the Devils
It’s only the first month of 2018 and we have amazing news for our Earth! New York City has recently sue the Oil Giants – ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Conoco Phillips on the premise none other than destroying Earth itself. They don’t stop there. The city will also “divest the city’… Read more
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Published 6 Jan 2018
Langur Project Penang: Our Dirty Hands
(ISN’T HE THE CUTEST THINGGG??? OH MY GAWDDDD!!!!!) Oh, right. (Clear throat) Ahem.. Our Dirty Hands Now, if I were to ask you to picture a group of Millennials, and describe it to me, you would probably say you see a group of tech-savvy young adults in Gap and Nike. Their eyes fi… Read more
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Published 2 Dec 2017
Traffic congestion is that date we hate but can’t reject. Thing is, we can.
The heavy traffic congestion in Malaysia does not happen by accident. The heavy traffic congestion in Malaysia is not an inevitable product of aggressive economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s. The heavy traffic congestion in Malaysia is definitely not a sign of a “developed country”, unlike what we… Read more
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Eric Thoo
