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OPENING SPEECH by Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng, Executive Director of Penang Institute at the Penang Economic Forum 2024, co-organised by Affin Hwang Investment Bank and Penang Institute. 25 June 2024. OVER THE LAST few months, working with the team from Affin Hwang Investment Bank organising this conference has sparked in us at Penang Institute, … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng, “Picking on the Present” column in The Edge Malaysia, 22-29 June 2024. IT HAS CONSTANTLY been said of Malaysia that it is “at a crossroads”. That is more a glib statement about the contingent nature of the country and the compromised nature of its politics than it is an insight about … Continue reading
OOI KEE BENG, Penang Monthly, June 2024 THE THEME FOR June 2024 is non-government oganisations—NGOs. This allows for the publisher of this monthly, i.e. Penang Institute itself, to do some soul-searching and to locate itself within the NGO world in Penang, and even Malaysia, in terms of its functions and aspirations. Penang Institute is known … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG, for The Edge FORUM: Picking on the Present. 25 -31 May 2024. WE ALL AGREE that the world has changed greatly in recent centuries, accelerating in the last decades to such a degree that it is now almost impossible to isolate and identify dynamics of change well enough for us to … Continue reading
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
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