To my right, I could see the tsunami heading on towards the northeast corner of Penang.
Penang people like to think of their city as a little bit of serendipity.
Manuel and her husband had been living in Thailand and had travelled to Penang, Malaysia to get their visas renewed.
Health authorities are probably mindful of a cholera epidemic that swept through Penang in May last year.
Aware of this, Gerakan, which governs Penang state, has tried to incorporate the reform message in its platform.
's Penang plant - he spent his freshman summer as an Intel intern, helping to write quality-control software.
Born in 1972 in Penang, Tan Twan Eng worked as a lawyer in Kuala Lumpur before becoming an author.
Their empire, which also included the Eastern and Oriental in Penang, broke up.
Residents like Dr. Choong find the hold-up frustrating, especially when the Penang state government is ready to fund the service.
One of CAP's first big campaigns was to help fishermen whose livelihood was threatened by industrial waste in Penang's Juru River.
The robust growth of Penang is also reflected in air cargo's average growth rate of 28% per annum for 1994 and 1996.
But ask any local food connoisseur in Penang where their favourite food stalls are and every one will give you vastly different answers.
Plus, I am pretty convinced that the fine fresh ingredients of Penang cuisine makes it one of the healthier diets of the world.
It is a trait that has earned the Malaysian recognition on the international stage as director of the Penang-based Third World Network (TWN).
Undeniably, the recent stock market slump has also affected these companies, but Penang is not "in decline" relative to the rest of the nation.
Sonos is a privately-held company, headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA with offices in Cambridge, MA, Hilversum, Netherlands, Beijing and Shenzhen, China, and Penang, Malaysia.
In the past three years, Penang attracted personal computer giants Dell Computer and Packard Bell-NEC to set up their Asia-Pacific regional manufacturing and distribution centers.
One of them, the deputy chief minister of the Malaysian state of Penang, was recognised as the guest of honour at one of the smaller sessions.
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According to Penang Netpreneur Chan Hong Saik, who runs B2B Internet solutions group Ebx.com, numbers like that mean that the term "e-commerce" will soon be redundant.
Intel and Motorola, which have been in Penang since 1972 and 1974 respectively, announced in the past two months the setting up here of their Asia-Pacific distribution centers.
He spent 10 years in Asia as a financial controller for AMD Penang and group finance director for AMD's Manufacturing Services Group across Singapore, Thailand, China and Malaysia.
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Khor cut his teeth with the Consumers' Association of Penang.
From January 1995 to June 1997, 25 Penang-based companies, mainly in the manufacturing sector, qualified for listing on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange, as compared to 29 between 1973 and 1994.
When the traffic backs up, it takes her at least an hour to drive the 12 kilometers downtown (while Georgetown is the built-up center, Penang island is usually regarded as one community).
Assembly Halls are scattered all over Georgetown and Penang (and Malaysia in general), but "Assembly Hall" is a somewhat sterile term that does not cut to the heart of how cool these buildings are.
As soon as Grundig, making audio products in Penang, stopped its operations in June 1996 to concentrate on its European market, the entire factory and workforce were taken over by the local Malaysian Electrical Corp.
Even among the Hindu faithful, you may notice there are statues of Chinese deities like Kuan Yin that are decorated with the same garlands draped on Shiva and Ganesh, another testament to Penang's cross-cultural appeal.
Around the world other groups joined the fray, from mainstream activists, such as the Penang-based Third World Network ( www.twnside.org.sg), to fringe elements like the Berkeley, California-based civil disobedience body The Ruckus Society ( www.ruckus.org).
The tech center in Cyberjaya is a stunner and is favored by very low taxes. (Mahathir deserves credit for that.) Malaysia's manufacturing center in Penang, where Dell assembles its laptops, is not as cheap as China is, but comes close.
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