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The Road Ahead Podcast by Penang Institute, with the host, Fazil Irwan Som. Ooi Kee Beng kicks off the series.
By Ooi Kee Beng April 2024 EDITORIAL, Penang Monthly I REMEMBER STRUGGLING with the terms “weather” and “climate” in primary school. And as with most related words, it was about knowing when to use one and not the other, not so much about understanding each of them properly or deeply. I did say this was during … Continue reading
Bernama TV Interview with Dato’ Dr Ooi Kee Beng, 30 August 2023
Interview article published on 2 August by Bernama, by Soon Li Wei, available at https://www.bernama.com/en/bfokus/news.php?special-project&id=2212214https://www.bernama.com/en/bfokus/news.php?special-project&id=2212214.
By OOI KEE BENG, January 2023 Editorial in Penang Monthly. EDUCATION IS REGARDED as a human right today. Therefore, most modern states, barring those who expressly consider public education to be a threat to their continued exercise of political or religious power, have felt duty-bound to provide some level of formal schooling to every one … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng in Penang Profile for Penang Monthly May 2022 OUR EDITOR WAS stuck in Singapore for a few weeks in 2021 during the pandemic, and took the chance to meet up with one of Penang’s many famous sons living in that city state. This was Professor Euston Quah, an old Penang Free … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng in Penang Monthly, April 2022 ON MARCH 12, 2022, Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Dr. Noor Hisham bin Abdullah, Director-General of Health for Malaysia, was awarded the inaugural Dr. Wu Lien-Teh Award for Leadership in Public Health by The Dr. Wu Lien-Teh Society in recognition of his leadership of the healthcare sector during the … Continue reading
By OOI KEE BENG, For THE EDGE MALAYSIA, 29 January 2022 THE FEDERAL government’s inability—or unwillingness—to inspect, assess and reform the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), and its flat-footedness, incompetence and uncaringness on show during the recent flood incidents throughout the peninsula, took away whatever remaining doubts there had been that Malaysia does need a “reset”. … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng Penang Monthly, Editorial November 2021 I DON’T LOVE them; I don’t hate them. But I think they are indispensable. They are very much a necessary by-product of the film industry, the way any form of art spills out items generally considered inferior in quality. Yet, these items are not without value, … Continue reading
By Ooi Kee Beng, July 2021 PENANG PROFILE AFTER A LIFETIME in the civil service, Dato’ Seri Haji Farizan bin Darus finally retired from the powerful position of State Secretary for Penang State in 2019. Married to an engineer attach to the Public Works Department (JKR), and with long experience serving in Penang in various districts … Continue reading
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