Selamat datang daripada Langkawi, When did we change from perceiving islands as ideal sites for penitentiaries, asylums and quarantine stations to seeing them as idyllic destinations for leisure activities? islands as tourist destinations Was it when we successfully exchanged work time for leisure without diminishing our share of the return on capital? Was …Read More
Selamat datang daripada Langkawi, This is the story of two businesses in competition with each other. On the southern end of a peninsula – on Pulau Langkawi in northern Malaysia – is Tanjung Puteri Motel, run by a family who has invested everything into starting from scratch, to catch the boom in …Read More
Selamat datang daripada Langkawi, In the dying days of his presidency, Barack Obama said that whether we like it or not we live in an interconnected world. Here in Langkawi, Malaysia, there are very few who disagree, some who like it and some more who don’t like it. Globalisation came to this …Read More
Shuvo shokal from Dhaka, Remember your school excursions? It was great to catch a coach to a dairy farm outside Albion Park, or to play another school in soccer on Elizabeth Park, Bellambi, or even to see a play at the Seymour Centre. Pelican Sheep Station was as far as most of us went. …Read More
Shuvo shokal from Dhaka, Both Matt and I were new to the school. As we were scanning the programmes for Grade 10 in the week before school began we came across a reference to a field trip destination: Tioman Island. “Perhaps it’s an island in the Buriganga River, “opined Matt. “Yes, probably …Read More