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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 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, 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, 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
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 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, 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
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
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