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August 30, 2025

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Celebrate Community & Culture at YSDAF 2025: Elmina Lakeside Mall Finale

Malaysia’s beloved arts biennale, the Yayasan Sime Darby Arts Festival (YSDAF), is concluding its 10th‑anniversary edition with a spectacular final stop on 9 August 2025, hosted at Elmina Lakeside Mall, Shah Alam. This marks the conclusion of a six-month, nation‑wide celebration themed “Community: Side by Side”—a journey bringing the arts closer to diverse communities across the Malaysia peninsula. The Urban…

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Adeline Wong Interview. Classical music. Yong Siew Toh. Malaysia music. Music Press Asia
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Adeline Wong President of Malaysian Composers Collective on the Sounds of Asia

INTRODUCTION Q1: Welcome to Music Press Asia, Adeline. You are born and bred in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Tell us about your journey as a classical contemporary composer. You studied in the US and UK before returning to Malaysia. So, when did you realize that this is something you must become or do professionally? How did you come to realize that…

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Celebrating Geography Awareness Week

Geography is an approach to understanding and engaging with the world around us. This is at the core of who we are here in Southeast Asia. To celebrate this event,…

Geography Awareness Week. Music Press Asia
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ASEAN Summit Converges in Phnom Penh

Cambodia, this year’s chair for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), is hosting the weekend summit in Phnom Penh — the group’s first in-person meeting since the Covid pandemic.…

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Singapore

Yung Parents On Being A Creative Southeast Asian Duo

I. Malaysia/Singapore Q1: Hi Yung Parents, welcome to Music Press Asia! We’ve recently seen your excitement over the opening border of Malaysia/Singapore, which resulted in the release of a music…

Singapore rap duo Yung Parents Interview with Music Press Asia
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Designing Paradise with Bill Bensley

Few can match the rich works of Bill Bensley when it comes to luxury design — landscaping, interiors and architecture —  in the hospitality world. Having designed more than two…

Bill Bensley, Designing Paradise. Music Press Asia
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Covid Lifeline

Aviation Industry: Being Creatively Challenged

Let’s start with Malaysia, a tropically cool paradise smack within a miniscule area called the Southeast Asia. Within a regionally attraction that is distinctly equal of beauty is the Andaman archipelago in the northwest and Indonesia’s popular reefs in the south; with a bustling, healthy…

Chaos' first step to recovery in aviation. Images and information of TheNewsMarket. Music Press Asia
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