Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng - Penang Monthly (Page 25)

Refining Daily Social Behaviour is How We Individuals Get to Define the New Normal

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THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS that causes Covid-19 has been going about its deadly business for six months now. To date (July 10, 2020), 12,414,853 people have official...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Redefining the Global “New Normal” After Covid-19

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PUNDITS ARE COMPARING the Covid-19 pandemic to the “Spanish Flu” of 1918 to tease out lessons for how to combat future pandemics.However, the worl...

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How Much of a Crisis is Covid-19?

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THERE ARE MANY levels to a crisis. What is sometimes called a crisis is often merely a serious problem. Personally, I would prefer that the word be reserved for...

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Balancing Mutualism with Legalism

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THE NOTION OF “Rights” is as close to the essence of politics as one can come in a word.This is because “Rights”, like “Respect&...

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Fighting Covid-19 Helps Penang Take Charge of its Digital Future

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THE PENANG STATE Government has adopted “Next Normal” as the working term to denote the immediate post-Covid-19 era. This is exciting in that it pro...

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A Sport is an Ongoing Search for Common Ground

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IT IS STRANGELY hard to decide what a sport is; and when we do settle on a definition, it is only acceptable if we do not consider the many forms of human activ...

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Entrepreneurship Gone Sexy

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ENTREPRENEURSHIP. THIS IS a word more used than understood. But it is a word that is hugely popular today. It connotes some psychological quality that we wish t...

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When the Artistic Impulse Becomes a Key Economic Asset

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“Creative Industries” is an elusive term. It reflects the postmodern condition, unsettling notions of modernity while signalling socio-economic and cultural shifts tied to 21st-century globalisation.

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Liveability Lies in Public Spaces being Properly Planned and Maintained

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Urbanity changes our relationship to space and loosens our link to Nature. As societies grow in size, they acquire space that then needs to be planned, managed and endlessly maintained.

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Fostering a Sense of Conjoint Fate One Teh Tarik at a Time

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Not many peoples in the world discuss what they want for dinner while eating lunch. Malaysians do, and we like to laugh about that fact – taking it to mea...

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Meeting a Legend that Grows and Grows

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This article first appeared in our February 2010 issue. In celebration of our 10th anniversary, we put together for you in this issue some of our most memorable...

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The View Gets Better the Longer the Journey Lasts

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There are tipping points. Key instances past which the world changes. The effect is often immediate, shocking and irreversible. And then there are changes that...

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