June 2016 - Penang Monthly (Page 2)

Mahathir: “People Must Be Able to Hold Their Heads Up.”

11 min read

Ooi Kee Beng: Tun, your generation fascinates me. You are of the nation-building generation who dared to imagine that it would not only change the world, but co...

Balik Pulau: A Pace Apart

Balik Pulau is one of the earliest Malay settlements in Penang, populated by refugees from Kedah who sought escape from Siamese invaders. Colonial-era buildings...

Mohd Izzuddin Ramli Khairunnisa’ Ahmad Mokhtar

IN MEMORIAM: ANDY GROVE

6 min read

Penang owes a lot to Andy Grove.Grove, a Silicon Valley icon, became Intel’s President in 1979, its CEO in 1987 and its Chairman of the Board in 1997 up...

Elizabeth Su

Capitalism is the Exercise of the Power of Excess

3 min read

This morning (June 20, 2016), my 12-year-old daughter asked me “what is Capitalism?”Since the Cold War is over, this is actually a harder question...