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By Ooi Kee Beng For The Edge, 30 July 2012 One fantastic thing about globalization is the knowledge easily available to us about how best to do things in any specific field. This can be about managing a company, educating a child, running a kindergaren, organizing a kitchen, growing a garden, or maintaining your car. … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng [Editorial in Penang Monthly July 2012] The conference organized by Penang Institute and held on 25th June 2012 at the famed Eastern & Oriental Hotel is interesting for many reasons outside of all the fascinating things said by the impressive row of speakers. The participants were certainly an impressive lot, and … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng [Editorial in Penang Monthly June 2012] I am sure it has not escaped anyone’s notice. Even at a long distance away, it cannot be ignored. Penang is buzzing – more and more. And this year, the third George Town Festival in a row is taking place. Typically of Malaysian adaptability, instead of … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng For New Mandala’s series “Malaysia after regime change, 30 June 2012 A dialogue about something as serious as regime change in Malaysia must examine at least two vast subjects. Firstly, a thorough and open discussion about the historical conditions under which the Federation of Malaya, and then Malaysia, was constructed is … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng, for The Edge, 28 June 2010 One of the first things that any undergraduate learns is that when writing a scientific text, he or she must provide references. In fact, without such references, a text is not considered scientific. This referencing behaviour is meant to show that the student has been … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng [This article is part of ANU’s New Mandala “Malaysia after regime change” article series, edited by Greg Lopez] Malaysia had to begin life as a federation because, like all federations, its diversity of polity, culture, history, ethnicity and economy was simply too deep for a centrally controlled regime to be practicable. … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng [Editorial for Penang Monthly, 2012] How concepts relate to each other is always revealing. A close look at them always arouses new ways of thinking. The same goes for discovering the lost origins of words. Most of us have feasted ourselves on the connections between “revolution”, “evolution” and even “involution”. Lately, “devolution” … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng (Editorial in Penang Monthly, February 2012) Why is it so important to scientists to discover extra-terrestrial life forms? They know the odds are astronomically small. Well, they are hoping against hope, certainly. But I think that it is because they intuitively know that the leap in knowledge about Life and the … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng This interview with YB Liew Chin Tong, outgoing Executive Director of Penang Institute and Member of Parliament for Bukit Bendera, discusses his understanding of the tasks think tanks need to adopt in the 21st century. Malaysian nation building has not been an easy process, and one of the negative developments it … Continue reading
PEM Editorial — November 14, 2011 A HISTORY of Public Space in post-colonial countries is long overdue. Such a narrative would be a powerful one indeed if it also adopts the fall of empires as its background. We no longer ponder about the strange phenomenon of the string of empires – colonial or traditional – … Continue reading
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