If you think you’ve seen it all in Penang - its delicious street food, its heritage streets, its snake temple, as well...
Frances Wilks looks at some of the ways the island’s future can shaped positively rather than destructively, and be life-enhancing, rather than...
King Street and Queen Street are bustling thoroughfares at the heart of George Town’s Little India.
Frances Wilks explores the renovations and new attractions of the highest place in George Town – the iconic Komtar building. I first...
It’s the same country, but the lands of East Malaysia are wildly different – both literally and figuratively – than those over...
In 2017 Chinese New Year begins on 28 January but many celebrations actually start on the eve of it – the night...
PENDFAS (Penang Decorative and Fine Arts Society) is now here – the first group in Asia
An unusual theme garden was unveiled at the Tropical Spice Garden in November and Frances Wilks met its progenitors – Tauras S....
Whether you’ve just arrived on the island, are merely passing through, or are an experienced habitué, there are always emerging networks and...
Frances Wilks visits the otherworldly “Art and Garden” where ordinariness is turned on its head and encounters its creator, Fuan Wong.
Mike Gibby’s new book “Street Art Penang Style” chronicles the explosion of street art on the island in the last decade.
Frances Wilks visited the new Entopia at Teluk Bahang and found that the Penang Butterfly Farm has morphed into a completely new...