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For centuries, Penang's coastal communities have passed down whispered stories of spectral entities said to dwell beneath the waves of the Straits of Malacca.…

On the northern coast of Penang island, where fishing boats once outnumbered motorcars and village councils resolved disputes before breakfast, the figure of…

Long before piped water reached the southwestern coast of Penang island, the villagers of Kampung Sungai Ara had worked out a layered system for drawing,…

The smell of freshly cut chengal wood drifting across a darkened waterfront at dusk is a memory still carried by older residents of Balik Pulau. This rural…

Along the muddy tidal flats of north-eastern Penang, generations of kampung women tended the slow alchemy of turning bark into colour. Mangrove trees yielded a…

The village of Kampung Guar Perahu sits on the mainland coast of Penang, in the district of Seberang Perai, where the Pampas River meets the Strait of Malacca.…

For generations, the Malay villagers of Penang carried a deep understanding of the creatures that shared their island home. Long before modern antivenoms…

The story of Datuk Dolah unfolds against the bustling waterfront of George Town during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period when…

Across the lanes of George Town and the villages along Penang's coast, elders remember the satisfying rhythm of a hand-made sweeping tool gliding across the…

The Mahmud family of Penang represents one of the many intertwined lineages that anchor the Malay fishing communities along the island's northern coast. For…