Getting Back on Our Feet, and with Back Held Straight
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
July 2020 COVER STORY
DISASTERS – natural or manmade – tend to affect a limited geographical area.A typhoon cutting across the Philippines, like Typhoon Vongfong in May this year, may devastate thousands of lives but humans living elsewhere will know nothing about it apart from what they read or see in the news. The victims of the Fukushima triple disaster in 2011 were largely people living in the area. Nuclear spillage into the surrounding seas wrought damage further afield no doubt, but most humans...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
