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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
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, 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
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
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
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