GEORGE TOWN, Sept 14 — The Penang government aims to implement 100 community garden hubs with urban farming concept throughout the state in the next five years. State Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said that the initiative was in line with the Penang2030 vision in becoming a family-focused, green and smart state that inspires the nation. “The initiative (to implement community urban farms) not only can be implemented by the state government, but communities, agencies, institutions and other organizations can also implement them if they have the space to do so,” he said after officiating the launch of Kebun Kitar pilot project at…

Business has entered its next evolution — the can't lose market — but only for large companies with access to public markets. The state of play: Companies with enough size are starting to take advantage of the moment, and backed by a seemingly endless supply of free Fed money can go all-in on whatever they want. Driving the news: Mall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Group unveiled plans to acquire "substantially all of JCPenney's retail and operating assets" for $1.75 billion Wednesday. It's the biggest and riskiest of Simon's recent acquisitions through its joint venture with Authentic Brands Group that includes recently…

Was Donald Trump’s election an aberration? If the fervor of NeverTrumpers and neoliberal Democrats this election season is any indication, many on both the Right and Left are determined to make it so. The president’s often-erratic behavior is certainly a departure from precedent. But the vitriol with which Trump’s establishment critics treat both the man and his movement suggests the divide is deeper than outrage over imprudent outbursts and strange capitalization on Twitter. There really is a growing, fundamental divide on a set of core issues between global elites and the people in the places they’ve left behind—one that transcends…

TARGET: “EVERYONE” In 1997, the U.S. Space Command published its Vision for 2020. The Vision says that military force is necessary to “protect” U.S. trade and investment. Colonial forces repelled Native American attacks, Navies enforced sea-based commerce, the Air Force had the advantage of the “high ground.” In modern times, space is an additional domain of warfare. The technologies that we take for granted—cargo tankers, computers, e-commerce, drones, GPS, the internet, jet aircraft, touchscreens, and the satellites that make these things possible—were developed in the military sector with public treasure before their transfer to private, for-profit corporations. This, says the Space Command, will lead…

On August 22, Turkey announced the discovery of Tuna-1: 320 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas off its Black Sea coast. Though questions remain as to whether it is economically viable to start production – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has suggested this could happen as early as 2023 – the news could not go unnoticed in other littoral countries of the Black Sea. The discovery may well help spur regional cooperation. Both Romania and Bulgaria have been prospecting in their continental shelves and Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) for years. The Turkish find will no doubt encourage Black Sea nations to double down on…