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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
Notes written for use at the “Fireside Chat” panel at the “China-ASEAN Economic Seminar: Exploring the Feasibility of a China-ASEAN Common Market“. Organised by the Guangzhou Institute of the Greater Bay Area (GIG), the Belt And Road Initiative Caucus for Asia Pacific (BRICAP), and Sunway University, on 21 April 2024 at Sunway University By Dato’ … 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 April 2024 EDITORIAL, Penang Monthly I REMEMBER STRUGGLING with the terms “weather” and “climate” in primary school. And as with most related words, it was about knowing when to use one and not the other, not so much about understanding each of them properly or deeply. I did say this was during … Continue reading
RSIS Seminar by Ooi Kee Beng, 21 March 2024. Keypoint, RSIS, NTU Abstract The political life of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been a very long one, but it is the last 20 years that have provided him with a role and a purpose that go beyond what would have been normal for an UMNO … Continue reading
Online Lecture given by Ooi Kee Beng to the Master’s Class at the Law Faulty of Chulalongkorn University, on 14 March 2024. Good morning everyone. I am most happy to have this chance to speak to all of you. I do miss lecturing, which I have only done sporadically ever since I left academia to … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng, March 2024 Editorial, Penang Monthly WHETHER WE LIKE to think so or not, modern political thought gained effective sloganicexpression during the French Revolution (in 1789), incidentally around the time Penang wassettled (in 1786) by the English East India Company. No doubt the motto wasinstitutionalised only a century later during France’s Third … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG. This article first appeared under the column “Picking on the Present” in Forum, The Edge Malaysia Weekly on February 26, 2024 – March 3, 2024 IT IS TRUE that no political party in Malaysia has ever commanded a large enough majority to govern without the help of a coalition. Barisan Nasional … Continue reading
Podcasts with Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng ( Jan 4, Jan 17 and Feb 1, 2024, on Spotify) .
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