Penang Institute Pushes for Economic Ecosystems Development
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...
View ArticleTaking Physical Space or Making Cultural Space?: Multicultural Peace Depends...
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%...
View ArticlePursuing the Meaning of Equality and Liberty (With AI Assistance)
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),...
View ArticleThe Creative Industries Require More Organic Solidarity and Less Mechanical...
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...
View ArticlePenang Institute as NGO—Growing beyond Research and Advocacy
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...
View ArticleCurating the City: Public Spaces and the Framing of Urban Architecture
By OOI KEE BENG, Penang Monthly, Editorial July 2024 The key difference that I observe when visiting a thriving city and a striving one is in the manifest gap in ambition and maintenance between...
View ArticleDiagnosing Countries: Education in Malaysia Shows Signs of Arrhythmia
By Ooi Kee Beng, Editorial in Penang Monthly, August 2024 WE LIVE IN the Era of Nation-States. At the moment, there are 193 members in the United Nations (UN). Inevitably, we have to compare them to...
View ArticleEndorsing Wanderlust: Travel to Live, Travel to Learn
By OOI KEE BENG, Cover story for Penang Monthly September 2024 A baby should cry at birth. It must be traumatic being born. The compressing comfort of the womb is gone, the noises and lights once...
View ArticleThe Art of Getting Creative and Staying Creative
By OOI KEE BENG, Editorial for Penang Monthly September 2024 I have an iPhone 15 Plus Max. It’s equipped with the best phone camera in the world and I use it quite often to capture events and people I...
View ArticleAfter 15 Rousing Years, the Penang Renaissance Still Resonates Clearly
By OOI KEE BENG, Penang Monthly 15th Anniversary bumper Issue, October 2024 WE ARE AT one of those self-appraising points in time when we—not only Penang Monthly, but also Penang Institute as a...
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