You can go to restaurants and coffee shops these days and see the majority of patrons glued to their smartphones, even when...
A Visit to the Teochew Puppet and Opera Museum and a Look at Dark Skies in Penang.
Malaysia is currently facing some real challenges. This has lead some expats to ask us whether this is a bump in the...
Expat living in Malaysia is generally a tepid experience, with daily routines settling in almost as easily here as they did back...
An expat's experience visiting the Penang Colonial Museum.
As those who are involved in print media can attest, an often-asked question is, “How much longer will print media survive?”
Ageing in Asia is a much better proposition than ageing is in the West. In Europe, you become invisible after a certain...
You probably didn’t know if you weren’t a woman, or married to one of a certain age, that there was an election...
Expats do not have to live in Malaysia or Singapore long to learn that there is a lot of rivalry between Singapore...
Malaysia has changed. Of course, that statement in and of itself is a bit meaningless: all countries are constantly changing. So let’s...
While Indonesia went ahead with the executions of the other, mainly foreign drug offenders, they granted an 11th hour temporary reprieve to...
The impending executions in Indonesia have received almost unprecedented global publicity and widespread condemnation and appeals for mercy from many quarters, including...