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By Ooi Kee Beng May 2024 editorial in Penang Monthly IF YOU WISH to enhance material production, be this of electronic chips, fish and chips, or arts and crafts, the contemporary wisdom today is to aim for the establishment of a supportive ecosystem. Until recently, the word “hub” was the cool term to throw around in … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG, for The Edge Malaysia, 27 April – 3 May 2024. SO WHAT CAN be wrong with the Unity Government? It has a two-third majority, it is made up of four coalitions of parties, none of whom would be in positions of power if they did not work together, and it is … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng, for The Edge Malaysia, 30 March-5 April 2024. SMACK IN THE middle of this electoral term, Malaysia is going to begin holding the year-long chairmanship for ASEAN. When 2025 comes around, the Unity Government under Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will have the opportunity to act on themes that best express what … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG, Editorial for February 2024, Penang Monthly SPACE: The final frontier… Good slogan. Classic. Melodramatic, evocative. And totally anthropocentric; to be sure, Space is after all 100% of the Universe, minus this negligible and infinitesimally small pebble we call Earth. But the opening line of Star Trek does work though. Suggestive, bold … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG JUST RETURNED FROM Singapore after an effective two-week stay there, I am prone not only to wax lyrical about the public transport system the city-state has developed, but also to ponder deeply over the central importance that spatial management has in urban life. Urban life by definition is a crowded one, … Continue reading
SINCE THE THEME for January 2024 is Penang’s Economic Development, it seems appropriate that I present in somewhat truncated form the document produced in March 2023 by Penang Institute as a think piece for internal use. This is the “Penang Regional Industrial Support Measures” (PRISM). PRISM functioned as the touchstone for Penang Institute’s researchers in … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG, for The Edge Weekly Malaysia. 24-31 December 2023 WE LIVE IN a time of layered crises, each portentous of the Future being worse than the Present. That’s bad enough if you are old. What if you are young? How would that affect your psyche, your life decisions, your morals? Why should … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG, The Edge Malaysia Weekly, 27 November 2023 WHAT IS IT exactly that Malaysians have been fighting about since the country gained independence as the Federation of Malaya on Aug 31, 1957? The segmented nature of the population cannot be denied. We see that undeniably in how no political party has ever … Continue reading
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng; Editorial in Penang Monthly, December 2023 YOU HAVE YOUR favourite places to be in. Favourite rooms within whose walls you feel safe, where you feel at home. There, you relax. The knot in your stomach loosens, your breathing slows and grows deeper, and your frontal lobe gives way to … Continue reading
These are the days of miracle and wonder.Don’t cry, baby, don’t cry.Don’t cry. — Paul Simon, “The Boy in the Bubble”, 1986. THE 1960S AND 70S were turbulent times culturally. At least that was what I thought when living through them. The youth revolution and the music revolution were going on. But more profoundly, underneath … Continue reading
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