Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng - Penang Monthly (Page 6)

Kedah Hoped For The Return of Province Wellesley in 1957

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How the independent Federation of Malaysia would incorporate its various parts was not a given thing, and the issues up for negotiation in 1956–1957 wer...

Malay Journalism Before The War

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Zainal-Abidin B. Ahmad (1895–1973) a.k.a Za’ba was a writer and teacher. A native of Negeri Sembilan, he was the first Malay to pass the Senior Camb...

A Pressman’s Progress

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THE STRAITS ECHO WAS Tan Thean Peng’s first employer. He joined as a reporter in 1978 after finishing his A-levels at St Xavier’s Institution only t...

The Spice Island of Penang, 1834

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PENANG HAS been a spice island from the period nearly of its first settlement. Pepper engrossed the consideration of capitalists for many years, and until...

Our Economist At The UN

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I first met Jomo KS in late 2004. This was also in Singapore, just after I had relocated back to the region from Europe. Having lived almost three decades on th...

Adult Suffrage Comes to Penang and Malaysia, 1951

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Voter registration under way.The Report on the Introduction of Elections in the Municipality of George Town, Penang (Kuala Lumpur: Government Press, 1951)...

Woo, The Lucky Economist

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Penang used to have exciting libraries which young boys and girls could visit to learn about the outside world. As we know, such institutions can be great cla...

Reporting on Penang’s twin, Pulau Jerejak, 1787

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“The island of Jerajah is about two miles in length and one in breadth, it is very high and steep and thickly covered with wood in the s...

Germany Wins Battle of Penang, 1914

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Sydney On October 28, 1914, the Germans disguised their ship as an Allied vessel and entered Penang harbour. Before their enemies could respond whe...

Need Think Tanks For New Times

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This interview with YB Liew Chin Tong, outgoing executive director of Penang Institute and Member of Parliament for Bukit Bendera, discusses his understanding...

Using the Arts to Communicate Science

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SCIENTIFIC WRITING IS often so full of acronyms, jargons and language so specific that it is only comprehensible to a handful of experts and academicians in the...

Slavery in Penang,1841

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Slavery in the British colonies was not abolished until the Slavery Abolition Act was passed on August 23, 1833, but this was repealed in 1838.Civil activism...