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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
By Ooi Kee Beng, for The Edge Malaysia, 28 October 2023 (Republished in Penang Monthly here). MY YEARS AS a political analyst and historian have taught me to look up every now and then from the quagmire of details and distractions cluttering my head today. I was thinking of the importance of Sociology in enhancing … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng * The South Wing Papers is the flagship publication for Penang Institute’s initiative, Forum for Leadership and Governance (FLAG). Abstract: Leaders and followers have a dialectical relationship. If one imagines that leaders are born, and not bred, then one has also to say that followers are born as well, and not … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng, In Penang Monthly, October 2023 PENANG INSTITUTE is in the process of launching its Forum for Leadership And Governance (FLAG) Project. The venue for its series of initiatives will be the newly renovated South Wing building on its grounds at 10-12 Brown Road. Why Are We Doing This? Penang Institute’s main … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng, Editorial for October 2023 in Penang Monthly MODERN ECONOMICS and modern living are paradoxically based on sustained advances in means of mobility, on the one hand, and in the human ability to live in huge settlements, on the other. Bringing human individuals into close proximity with each other in regular and … Continue reading
Bernama TV Interview with Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng, 30 August 2023
By OOI KEE BENG The steady fall of the UMNO-led Barisan Nasional (BN) from power, stretching from 2008 to 2018,and its ability to remain in government thereafter in one role or another tells an incredible tale thatcould not have been predicted and that still leaves most pundits confounded. Some of the implications of UMNO’s recent … Continue reading
September 2023 PENANG PROFILE Professor Dato’ Dr. Zulfigar Yasin may be best known today as one of Malaysia’s top marine biologists, but much of his professional life has been spent in areas of great consequence to the nation. And by that, we also mean his influence as a teacher, mentor and leader of the young and … Continue reading
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng. Editorial in Penang Monthly, September 2023 ANYONE WHO HAS achieved something they are proud of, when revisiting the memory of it later in life, tends to feel a warm and tingling sensation of “Wow, did I do that? Was that me?!” Much can be gleaned about ourselves from this … Continue reading
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