One of the latest trends in agriculture may be vanilla cultivation, where high-value vanilla crops sales have gone up to RM6 billion in 2018 globally. In fact, SEA alone has transacted more than RM600 million in vanilla. That’s according to Kairos Agriculture, a vanilla farm in Penang. Though, they’re faced …
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What tends to give a city its character and a sense of community to me, is its rich history. Located on Carnarvon Street, Penang is a heritage building that’s been around since the late 1800s. Once a bookstore and an electronics store even longer ago, the abandoned store held a …
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One year-end holiday, Ooi Poh Mei had some free time on her hands and decided to learn how to clean eyes from her grandfather when she was 16. Using ink, copper wire, a bamboo stick, cotton and a concoction of 10 different herbs, Poh Mei’s eye-cleansing family business, Hwang I …
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