Editorial - Penang Monthly (Page 14)

To Live and Let Live, You Need Sustainability Thinking

4 min read

THERE IS A persistent trend in the thinking of the people of Penang which is not easily named, but discerning it helps explain why civil society activism is so...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The SXI Spirit: Hard Work as Second Nature

5 min read

Editorial-cum-book review: Francis Loh Kok Wah, Cecilia Ng and Anthony Rogers: The Xaverian Journey: The Story of a Lasallian School in Penang, Malaysia 1787-20...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Can “The New Normal” be “The New Age”?

3 min read

AS EXAMPLES INCREASE of countries getting new spikes in Covid-19 cases, and as some sustained green zones in Malaysia, like Penang, start turning yellow, it is...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Refining Daily Social Behaviour is How We Individuals Get to Define the New Normal

3 min read

THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS that causes Covid-19 has been going about its deadly business for six months now. To date (July 10, 2020), 12,414,853 people have official...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

How Much of a Crisis is Covid-19?

3 min read

THERE ARE MANY levels to a crisis. What is sometimes called a crisis is often merely a serious problem. Personally, I would prefer that the word be reserved for...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Balancing Mutualism with Legalism

4 min read

THE NOTION OF “Rights” is as close to the essence of politics as one can come in a word.This is because “Rights”, like “Respect&...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Fighting Covid-19 Helps Penang Take Charge of its Digital Future

3 min read

THE PENANG STATE Government has adopted “Next Normal” as the working term to denote the immediate post-Covid-19 era. This is exciting in that it pro...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

A Sport is an Ongoing Search for Common Ground

4 min read

IT IS STRANGELY hard to decide what a sport is; and when we do settle on a definition, it is only acceptable if we do not consider the many forms of human activ...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Entrepreneurship Gone Sexy

4 min read

ENTREPRENEURSHIP. THIS IS a word more used than understood. But it is a word that is hugely popular today. It connotes some psychological quality that we wish t...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

When the Artistic Impulse Becomes a Key Economic Asset

3 min read

“CREATIVE INDUSTRIES” is an infuriating term. Why it is so difficult to get a firm handle on it is that it epitomises the postmodern nature of our t...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Liveability Lies in Public Spaces being Properly Planned and Maintained

3 min read

In a rural setting, public spaces lie between households. These are spaces shared with neighbours. And as you walk out of the village centre, either up the hill...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Fostering a Sense of Conjoint Fate One Teh Tarik at a Time

3 min read

Not many peoples in the world discuss what they want for dinner while eating lunch. Malaysians do, and we like to laugh about that fact – taking it to mea...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng