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By Ooi Kee Beng For The Edge, Kuala Lumpur, 24 September 2012 Its very name is magic…Istanbul. All its old names are magic… Byzantium … Constantinople. They conjure images of ancient civilizations, always fighting each other, and sometimes enriching each other. But in the end, they had to merge to leave a skyline that fascinates … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng For The Edge, Malaysia, 25th August 2012 ELECTIONS are on the way, and an endless stream of promises will be forthcoming. The good thing is that Malaysians are such a politically savvy people — and this is paradoxically a sad reflection on the state of politics in the country’s recent history … Continue reading
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, 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 For The Edge, May 28, 2012 Undoubtedly, the self-image of a nation includes the memory of key events from the past. These may include those whose impact on the course of events was so strong that no narrative, either by historians or by the layman, can ignore them. And then there … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng For THE EDGE, Kuala Lumpur. 28 April 2012. With Myanmar opening up faster than anyone ever expected the question how ASEAN is to develop as a community in the near future gets ever more interesting. “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” is of course a saying … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng For THE EDGE, Kuala Lumpur, 26 March 2012 I am sitting at a dear friend’s apartment in Hong Kong’s Wanchai district, looking across to Kowloon. Well, that’s not totally correct. I can actually not see Kowloon at all. The mist is so dense that even the vessels floating in the straits … Continue reading
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