Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng - Penang Monthly (Page 22)

Tun Lim Chong Eu: The Past is Not Passé

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Tun Lim Chong Eu's reflections on history and politics show that, while we may be shaped by our past, we are not prisoners of it. Penang’s future hinges on learning from history to innovate and adapt.

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Feel Better, Be Bilingual

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Why is it so important to scientists to discover extra-terrestrial life forms? They know the odds are astronomically small.Well, they are hoping against hop...

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A Monthly Dose of Penangiana

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It has now been two years since this magazine, Penang Economic Monthly, was revamped into a new colourful product meant for wider circulation and sale.The r...

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Are Digital Disruptions Laying the Foundations for Holistic Education in the 21st Century?

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All of us should sense very clearly by now that the education industry is a ripe fruit that is about to fall in the digital storm that has been blowing around the world since the turn of this century.

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Drivers Behaving Badly

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What would happen if every car is obliged by law to have a CCTV camera mounted in front of the driver, which immediately beams his face prominently onto an LE...

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How Laws Interact with Policies

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PENANG INSTITUTE’S PERSONNEL were given some pieces of good advice on February 18, 2020 concerning the relationship between the letter of the law and poli...

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Securing Public Space In The Post-Imperial Age

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A history of Public Space in post-colonial countries is long overdue. Such a narrative would be a powerful one indeed if it also adopts the fall of empires as...

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With Malaysian Politics on A Knife’s Edge, What Challenges Will Muhyiddin Face?

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If Malaysia ’s new government under Muhyiddin Yassin is a solid one, then one could perhaps begin declaring a new era in the country’s politics.Bu...

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Covid-19 Exclusives: Time to Dare Imagine the Best Possible New Normal

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THERE WERE FOREWARNINGS that something like the Covid-19 pandemic would hit the world; and yet, it came as a big surprise to most governments. To those that did...

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May We Remain Tentative When Understanding Others

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Calling a spade a spade is easy enough when you live in a small monolingual and mono-cultural society – such societies are necessarily small. But try do...

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Must We Stay Victims of Past Strategies?

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From August 2, 2011, the name of the research centre that produces this magazine is changed from SERI to Penang Institute.While there are several reasons fo...

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To Leave is a Basic Right

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COVID-19 HAS killed over 1.5 million people worldwide, crippled huge segments of the economy and made fear for our individual safety a nagging concern. Masks an...

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