SS Quah's Anything Goes

Since I had already written about the origins of the Penang Bazaar building some time ago, I thought it was time for me to turn my sights o...

I mentioned in my last story that I had gone exploring the old civic precinct in the George Town heritage core zone last July and August, bu...

The past few weeks have been rather surreal for me. Looking back, quite a lot has happened in a relatively short space of time, and I am sti...

Earlier this month, I attended this meeting at the Penang Town Hall as the representative of the Swee Cheok Tong (Seh Quah Kongsi). Called b...

It seems quite appropriate for me to say something about the Francis Light statue at Fort Cornwallis as I have written quite a bit about thi...

On the 240th anniversary of the landing at Penaggar Point to found Penang as a British settlement by Captain Francis Light, I'm reproduc...

I haven't attended a George Town Festival programme in years. When was the last time? I can't remember, but it was definitely before...

Anyone visiting the newly reopened Penang State Museum could be forgiven for thinking that it is, in part at least, a museum devoted to Pena...