An Hour with the Author: Tan Twan Eng. A Global Penang Tale on Meaning and...
Tan Twan Eng, one of Penang’s most famous authors today, was in town in July. He granted Penang Monthly an interview at the E&O Hotel, where some key scenes in his new book are played out. Ooi Kee...
View ArticleExcelling Every Day Is Easier Than You Think
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng. Editorial in Penang Monthly, September 2023 ANYONE WHO HAS achieved something they are proud of, when revisiting the memory of it later in life, tends to feel a warm and...
View ArticleZulfigar Yasin: A Creator of Marine Parks Who Can’t Help Being A Mentor
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...
View ArticleUrban Mobility and The Sense of Common Purpose
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...
View ArticleRaising The FLAG To Make Leadership A Common Concern
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...
View ArticleAI—Boon or Bane, Intelligent or Illusory?
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...
View ArticleFight for Your Man Caves and Your Comfort Foods
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...
View ArticlePenang 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),...
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