Balancing Mutualism with Legalism
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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&...
Fighting Covid-19 Helps Penang Take Charge of its Digital Future
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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...
A Sport is an Ongoing Search for Common Ground
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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...
Entrepreneurship Gone Sexy
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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...
When the Artistic Impulse Becomes a Key Economic Asset
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“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...
Liveability Lies in Public Spaces being Properly Planned and Maintained
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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...
Fostering a Sense of Conjoint Fate One Teh Tarik at a Time
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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...
The View Gets Better the Longer the Journey Lasts
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There are tipping points. Key instances past which the world changes. The effect is often immediate, shocking and irreversible. And then there are changes that...
Freedom Socially Anchored is a Formidable Thing
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Ooi Kee Beng.When a process of liberation has actually succeeded in emancipating a category of humans, subsequent generations should find it hard to imagi...
Should We Aim for A United Nation? Or Simply A Just State and a Healthy Economy?
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Malaysians use “Nation-building” as an umbrella term for all the processes required to turn a given territory into a secure, prosperous and united...
Mind the Young Mind
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It is often claimed that traditional Asian ways of teaching encourage students to memorise facts – so-called rote learning. The Western way, in contradi...
Editorial-Good to see credit go to the deserving
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First, SERI Chairman Chet Singh Karam Singh was awarded the Darjah Gemilang Pang-kuan Negeri (DGPN). This took place on Julyio at Penang Governor Yang Dipertua...