Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng - Penang Monthly (Page 14)

Beasts “R” Us: The Merging of Man, Nature and Animal in Zodiac Systems

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THE CRUCIAL POSITION that animals have in human civilisation is an intriguing one.Taming animals for labour and transport or for food and company is a criterion...

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Revealing the Wonderful World of Biodiversity

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FOR ONCE IN my life, let me quote from The Bible to make a weighty point of contrast. In Genesis 7:9, it is stated: "There went in two and two unto Noah into th...

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The B-Movie – A Welcomed Mental Asylum

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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 ar...

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The Intriguing Invention of “Zero” and “One”

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ZEROES AND ONES fill our world today. The binary code that powers our computers could of course have been signified by other, even arbitrary, symbols, but they...

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Having had So Much Time to Think Recently, We Should Now Be Able to Act Smarter

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WISDOM COMES MOST easily to the recluse; that’s a process long been recognised and advocated throughout human history, and in most societies and civilisations....

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Are We Witnessing the Bankruptcy Proceedings of the Malay Agenda?

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FOR THE FIRST elected government since independence that is not based around the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) to fall within 20 months, one has to...

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Deepening the Here and the Now

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IN THE FEEDBACK which has come to my attention to Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow's Penang2030, which he launched on August 29, 2018, just three months afte...

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Working in Silos Becomes the Norm When Merit Systems Are Shunned

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FORMER INTERNATIONAL Trade and Industry minister Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz entertained Malaysia with her comment that the idea that Malaysians like working in silos was not really accurate since silos are places huge enough for significant things to happen.

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Pedestrians of the World, Unite!

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WE SAY THAT birds fly and fish swim. We think of reptiles as crawlers and monkeys as climbers. But what about us? What about man? What is our default physical a...

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With E-learning, Universal Education Finally Comes of Age

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LIKE SO MANY generations before me have done I associate learning with schools with buildings to which little uniformed boys and girls trudge before the day get...

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Farizan bin Darus: A Lifetime Serving Penang and the Civil Service [Part One]

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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....

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Why Meet the 21st century with 20th century Mindsets?

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Why Meet the 21st century with 20th century Mindsets?We should not forget that in the days before social media and news websites, the flow of information &n...

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