Locally Familiar, Globally Recognised

By Timothy Choy

March 2020 IN THE INDUSTRY
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MANY A TIME, the obvious complexities of everyday items elude us. Take the device many of us treat as extensions of ourselves: the mobile phone. CNBC estimates that Apple works with suppliers in 43 countries and six continents to make the iPhone; more, if broken down into raw materials.1 Or the vehicles that we so heavily depend on as an assertion of self-efficacy. These products are narratives woven together to tell the intricate story of global connectivity. And in the...

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Timothy Choy

is an economic analyst at Penang Institute. He reminisces the good old days when McD sold popcorn.

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