A Synergic Platform is Something Penang Almost Already Has to Build Back Better

By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

May 2021 EDITORIAL
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THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has obliged us to rethink the personal, the present and the proximate. Shaken by the arresting of our ambitions, stirred by disruptions to our daily habits, and stumped in our reasoning by the pressing demands of public safety, each of us has had to reconsider our situation very seriously over the past year. And since the crisis drags on, threatening health and wealth alike, we are forced to reflect more than plan, and to review more than...

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Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.

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