Lee Siu Ming

is a senior analyst at Penang Institute, and believes in the Latin phrase Audi alteram partem, loosely translated as “Listen to the other side".

9 posts

Swedish Firm Brings ERP to Malaysia’s Manufacturing SMEs

6 min read

As businesses aim to increase productivity and decrease cost, having a reliable enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is one way to ensure production factor...

by Regina Hoo & Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

Tracking Human Mobility in Penang During Covid-19

7 min read

DESCRIBED AS THE most tracked economic indicator during Covid-19,1 the release of the Google Community Mobility Data has been lauded as a creative means by a te...

by Lee Siu Ming & Ng Kar Yong & Yeong Pey Jung

Lee Siu Ming Ng Kar Yong

Penang-born Precision Engineering Firm Continues Moving Up the Value Chain

4 min read

KOBAY TECHNOLOGY HAS as its core business highprecision engineering, with peripheric tradings in property development. It was founded as Polytool Technologies i...

by Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

Expanding the Hi-tech Ecosystem in Penang for a New Era

5 min read

OVER THE PAST 20 years, ViTrox has established itself as a global technology company that is “powered in Penang and in Malaysia”, growing to reach a market capi...

by Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

ICT and e-Commerce in Numbers

4 min read

Data on Penang and the nation’s information communication and technology (ICT) and e-commerce usage shows an increasing trend of ICT adoption. Putraj...

by Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

The Critical Role of Domestic Enterprises in Penang’s Industrialisation

9 min read

PENANG BEGAN ITS industrial journey amid a challenging economic backdrop in the late 1960s; in 1967, the free port status of this trade-dependent entrepot was r...

by Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

Stable Local Indicators amid Challenging Global Economic Outlook

6 min read

According to the World Bank’s Global Economic Outlook ( June 2019), global growth in 2019 has continued to weaken and is expected to slowly rise to 2.8% i...

by Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

Penang Now a Prime Centre for Wafer Fabrication Equipment Manufacturing

5 min read

THE GLOBAL FORTUNE 500 company Lam Research Corporation (Lam Research) announced last February that it will soon be investing in Penang.A global supplier of i...

by Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming

Industrial Parks in Numbers

4 min read

Penang has over 45 years of industrial experience and almost 300,000 persons employed directly in the manufacturing industries. In tandem with the expansion in...

by Lee Siu Ming

Lee Siu Ming