Penang Profile - Penang Monthly (Page 10)

Getting Malaysia’s First LEO Satellite into Orbit

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Ong Siou Woon, Chief Operating Officer of Penang Institute, spoke to Dato’ Dr. Sean Seah, Co-founder of Angkasa-X, a company investing in low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, on how Malaysia can progress in this area.

by Ong Siou Woon

Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat – Relentless Champion of Penang’s Botanical Heritage

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Datuk Seri Lim Chong Keat shared his journey in botanical research and taxonomy. When asked what inspired him to venture into botany studies, as an auto-didactic amateur, he says, “One’s curiosity about the natural sciences has to be self-motivated. To be educated is to know what you don’t know.”

by Ong Siou Woon

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

6 min read

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....

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

WU LIEN-TEH The Father of Modern Medicine in China

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Born in Penang in 1879 to a family of immigrants from Taishan, China, Dr Wu Lien-Teh received his primary and secondary education at Penang Free School. At 17,...

by Penang Monthly

Tun Lim Chong Eu: The Past is Not Passé

4 min read

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.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Stephen Hough: “Penang can make money out of the arts if it does it right”

7 min read

Stephen Hough’s talent naturally evolved into a profession – he has been a classical pianist for an astounding three decades now, after having jumpstarted his performing career at 22.

by Andrea Filmer

Nicol David: So Much Done, So Much to Do

10 min read

DATO’ NICOL DAVID was the first famous personality to be profiled by Penang Monthly. This was in February 2010, in the magazine’s third issue, in an...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Anwar Fazal: Seeing New Possibilities for Social Activism Post-Pandemic [PART TWO]

7 min read

PENANG MONTHLY CONTINUES the conversation with Penang’s most prolific social activist, Dato’ Seri Dr. Anwar Fazal, on social activism, on having a p...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Polar bears don’t lie

1 min read

Polar bears don’t lie. Politicians do...

by Cecil Rajendra

Cecil Rajendra

Anwar Fazal: Seeing New Possibilities for Social Activism Post-Pandemic [PART ONE]

6 min read

A HEALTH PANDEMIC lays bare the bones of human society. So, if Covid-19 has not riled up your interest in how the world works, in how that world will now change...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Woman? Yes! Engineer? Yes! Successful? Yes!

4 min read

AT THE YOUNG age of 30 and with a rocketing career as a senior software engineer at Motorola Solutions Penang, Angelene Koid became the 2019 recipient of the Yo...

by Emilia Ismail

Meeting a Legend that Grows and Grows

12 min read

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...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng