Editorial - Penang Monthly (Page 14)

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

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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...

How Much of a Crisis is Covid-19?

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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...

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...