Another climate-adapted feature in Malaysia is none other than the charming architecture of traditional Malay timber house. The climatic design showcases a deep understanding and respect for nature, and the hot and humid tropical climate and the monsoon rainstorms. (1/n)
As Penangites celebrate the 17th George Town Heritage Day, we look beyond the streetscapes to the quiet lives shaped by change.
Grey Scale, a film by Evelyn Teh follows an elderly woman navigating solitude & memory in a once-thriving neighbourhood, now, taken over by shops.
Wonderful that @evelayn’s 2022 documentary Grey Scale, about ageing and #Penang, is now on YouTube, courtesy of @freedomfilmfest https://t.co/AeebwtW9BO
The Bajau Laut are a sea-faring group that lived in small boats. Now, younger generations have been forced to settle on land, losing connection to nature.
This #YouthDay see how @borneokomrad@my_sgp are changing this through #DigitalSolutions: https://t.co/DfeEhplvHw
Still don’t get why bike-lanes need to be separated, with real protected bike infrastructure, and why paint isn’t real infrastructure? “Paint doesn’t protect.”Watch this powerful before-&-after video of Lansdowne Street in #Melbourne via MelbourneWay.
https://t.co/N0lDy677Pb
12 lanes across a Federal highway interchange. Yet still full of slow moving traffic. Somehow an MP thinks adding 4 maybe 6 more elevated lanes will change anything.
How a man’s world systematically neglects women.
- When half the global population is treated as an afterthought, research is less accurate, policy is less effective, and welfare is diminished.
(The list of evidence presented is damning, to say the least).
https://t.co/EPB5aP8ffV
Happy New Year 2024!🎉
🌴Folks in Penang, if you have missed out on last year's screenings of Grey Scale, this is your chance to watch it at COEX on 20th Jan 2024 (Sat), 7:30pm.
Seats are limited, register asap: https://t.co/ri1GlGYLa2
“Why do we have a policy to protect the local car market through the national automotive policy but we don't have one for vegetables to protect our national #foodsecurity?” - Nurfitri Amir Muhammad, coordinator of the Malaysian Food Security and Sovereignty Forum @symmfoni
Today we published a special report on food security and climate change.
Did you know Msian rice farmers have changed harvest cycles due to changing weather patterns & veg farmers are planting off the ground (hang in polybag) to cope w extreme weather?
https://t.co/INfl2eUB8R
@climateaidil Penang once considered calling its proposed three artificial islands "BiodiverCity". An insult considering that it will destroy the entire southern coast of mudflat and active fishing area. Now with one island reclamation underway, it's been rebranded to Silicon Island.
It’s here! Just received my author copies of Malayan Classicism. Surreal to finally hold the thing I’ve been working on in some form or other since 2017. What a journey this has been!
"Around USD$33 billion was withdrawn from Malaysia’s pension fund, the Employee Provident Fund, to mitigate the impact of the pandemic. But now, the country could be facing a retirement timebomb."
#malaysia#ageingpopulation#poverty#EPF
https://t.co/6pYQCEu58P?
Have u watched Grey Scale @greyscaledocmy? Evelyn Teh @evelayn shared her journey of making Grey Scale and is currently active in campaigning to address how ready Malaysia is to support our elderly population. Watch the trailer here: https://t.co/YE9J2ausYz
#aging#malaysia