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Monday, 04 July 2011 18:27 |
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This is a tribute to one of Penang's great master painters. Tan Choon Ghee captured his home city's scenes with ease and honoured urban landscapes throughout the world with an intense brush. He was born in Penang on January 25, 1930 and passed away at 70 on December 28, 2010. FOR ALL HIS FAME and extraordinary skills, Tan Choon Ghee never got to be fabulously rich. Not that he minded that much, though once in 1980 he did publicly fulminate at the abject lack of art patronage. Today, the paintings of Choon Ghee are much sought after, celebrated for the languid pearly washes of intriguing street life, quaint architectural façades and the more laidback harbourside scenes and rustic villages. |
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Thursday, 30 June 2011 15:25 |
Voted as one of Asia's most liveable cities, Penang is fast becoming a destination of choice to live and invest in. Its distinct personality - a bustling metropolis where the old exists in perfect harmony with the new, a place steeped in history and tradition - has been a catalyst for its progress and development in recent years. Elaine Lau examines the allure of the Pearl of the Orient.
 THROUGHOUT the centuries, Penang has been known by different names: Pulo Pinaom, Prince of Wales Island, Isle of the Areca Palm. But none encapsulates the essence of the island more aptly than the name the British colonials gave it: Pearl of the Orient.
The charming moniker referred as much to the lustre of the island's picturesque beauty as it did to its strategic location for seafarers and traders. Long before Sir Francis Light of British East India Co established Penang as the first trading post in the Far East in 1786, Penang was already a well-established port of call for sailors from Arabia, China, Europe and India.
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Sunday, 29 May 2011 14:45 |
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THIS public lecture, the second in a series featuring significant events in the history of Penang and its region, was about the latest discoveries in Sungai Batu in the Bujang Valley. Dubbed “revisiting an old relationship” by The Hindu newspaper, the lecture by Professor Mohd Mokhtar Saidin gave very interesting revelations. For example, the archaeological discoveries at Sungai Batu extends the relationship between India and this region to the 1st century AD. |
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