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Friday, 30 August 2024

Accommodation crisis

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About a century ago, the schools in Penang were bursting at the seams as the Straits Settlements government grappled with a severe accommoda...
Friday, 30 December 2022

Of wet blankets and sour grapes

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Republished from  New Straits Times , Dec 30, 2022, with the author’s permission. Read the original  here . By Yong Soo Heong IN THE afterma...
Thursday, 29 December 2022

Being useful, relevant and productive during Covid

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 By Lim Siang Jin DURING the early days of the pandemic, there was a lot of confusion and, like many others displaced from their routines, I...
Wednesday, 28 December 2022

A friend indeed: Vincent Lim Ewe Tee, 1953-2022

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By Lim Siang Jin EWE TEE was my class monitor in Standard IC, Westlands Primary School, in 1960. We got on quite well and have been very goo...
Monday, 5 December 2022

Let’s hope unity govt lasts the distance as people are tired of political manoeuvring

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Republished from  New Straits Times , Dec 5, 2022, with the author’s permission. Read the original  here . By Yong Soo Heong MALAYSIANS have...
Friday, 5 August 2022

Mighty Bee

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By Yong Soo Heong NG BOON BEE was already a big name in the badminton world and synonymous with Tan Yee Khan when I was trying to make a mar...
Thursday, 16 June 2022

Noel Tan Inn Su (1954-2022)

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Noel Tan was our schoolmate at Westlands Primary in Standard 6 Red in 1965. He later went on to Penang Free School. We will expand on this o...
Friday, 27 May 2022

Do not let the Fourth Estate's work go to waste

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Republished from  New Straits Times , May 27, 2022, with the author’s permission. Read the original  here . By Yong Soo Heong THE ROLE of th...
Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Some need to learn empathy for good of country

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Republished from  New Straits Times , Apr 26, 2022, with the author’s permission. Read the original  here By Yong Soo Heong THE NINTH month ...
Saturday, 9 April 2022

Establish citizens’ assemblies to hold politicians accountable

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Republished from  New Straits Times , Apr 9, 2022, with the author’s permission. Read the original  here . By Yong Soo Heong EVER SINCE Mala...
Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Boosting Penang's musical heritage as an attraction

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Republished from  New Straits Times , Mar 9, 2022, with the author’s permission. Read the original  here . By Yong Soo Heong ON THE fourth f...
Friday, 21 January 2022

There must be better explanation for fatal cases

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Republished from New Straits Times , Jan 21, 2022, with the author’s permission. Read the original here . By Yong Soo Heong “UNREASONABLE ha...
Sunday, 2 January 2022

Sara and the Towkay

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Manicasothy Saravanamuttu was a Ceylonese who arrived in Penang to become the editor of the  Straits Echo  newspaper in 1931. He lived an ex...
Sunday, 19 December 2021

The Japanese invasion of Malaya, 1941

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In December 1941, the darkest days in Penang's history unfolded. Days after the Japanese military had begun their invasion of Malaya thr...
Saturday, 11 December 2021

Joan Baez and William’s tour de force at 22

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Unique story on the back page of The Malay Mail , Oct 19, 1979 By Lim Siang Jin ONE DAY in October 1979, something unheard of happened at Th...