Jeffrey Hardy Quah - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

Keeping Penang watered

15 min read

Water management or rather water mismanagement has been making headline news in Malaysia for months. PEM takes an in-depth look at the Penang Water Supply Corporation and reveals how this public-private partnership has thrived and become a model for the rest of the nation.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Best Step Forward For Public Transport

5 min read

IT IS A FAMILIAR SIGHT: every working day, right after quitting time, the Penang Bridge is filled with thousands of cars (with plenty of empty passenger seats), lines very slowly inching forward.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Giving Guests More

7 min read

MARCO GIOVANNI BATTISTOTTI is a familiar face in the Penang hotel scene. A larger than life figure, figuratively and literally speaking, the half-German half-It...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Paradise Being Lost, All Is Not Well on Penang’s Beaches

14 min read

YOU CANNOT SIT HERE, I just realised that,” Juergen Bosch says, looking at our surroundings as if for the first time, though we’ve been talking for most of an hour. The otherwise white sand is filthy, covered with dirt, detritus and the occasional plastic bottle and cigarette butt.

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah & Marisa Heah

Marisa Heah

Sunway Rising

5 min read

Tan Hun BengTAN HUN BENG was 10. He was trying to concentrate in class when the din began, easily drowning out everything the teacher was saying. Outside...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Penang Philharmonic -Giving A Face to The City

6 min read

Today, the orchestra has some 80 members, playing everything from the violin to the oboe to the double bass. Its members consist of the young and the old, rangi...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

The GTGP – A Prototype for Urban Regeneration

10 min read

Just like Think City, the George Town Grants Programme (GTGP) is unique, and is the first grants programme of its kind in Malaysia. All applicants fill out a...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Doctors Made in Malaysia

4 min read

Is Malaysia capable of offering world-class medical training? As far as Prof Datuk Dr Zainuddin Wazir, president of the Allianze University College of Medical S...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

Visualising the Poverty Line

6 min read

What does it mean to be poor, really?That was the question photographer Stefen Chow asked when he started The Poverty Line. The undertaking is unusual for a p...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

MPPP to Host Top Tourism Forum

3 min read

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and MPPP president Patahiyah Ismail (right) launching the Penang TPO brand on April 15 this year.One of George Town'...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

The Imam Guide in the Garden

4 min read

Raja Mohamad Izan Raja Yusoff takes his job at the Tropical Spice Garden seriously. “Our responsibility is to tell the truth about our plants.” Ther...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah

What The Higgs Happened?

7 min read

What did we discover?The jury is still out! The measurements we have made have not yet achieved sufficient precision to say conclusively whether or not this i...

by Jeffrey Hardy Quah