When I graduated with Chemical Engineering degree from the Birmingham University in the UK in the 1980, I chose to work with ESSO Malaysia. This was because ESSO Malaysia (now EXXON Mobil) was one of the two biggest companies in Malaysia. They paid high salaries for their engineers. The other company was SHELL Malaysia, also […]
People with kidney failure could soon be spared regular trips to hospital thanks to a new dialysis machine the size of a microwave. My late father used to visit a government dialysis centre twice a week, for almost 10 years. Fortunately, we had a friend who ferried him to the dialysis centre, which was about […]
We read an interesting article by Jonathan Black in Financial Times on June 24th, 2019. He wrote that most people do not seem to think that deploying patience is a viable course of action at work. The word, which originates from the Latin word for “suffer”, nowadays tends to suggest passivity, forbearance, tolerance and even […]
My Iranian MBA students proudly said that Iran produces the best caviar from sturgeons caught in rivers near the Caspian Sea. These sturgeons are now bred in commercial farms as wild sturgeons are declining in number. With the caviar selling at expensive prices in fancy restaurants, and travelers in first and business classes of airlines […]
My youth was filled with Japanese robots such as Ultra Man while my children were occupied with Transformers. We note an interesting article by Gillian Tett in Financial Times on June 12th, 2019. The article touched on the positive acceptance of robots in Japan as compared to other countries, mainly the UK and US. She […]
At our small fruit garden at the back of our house in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, snails are a menace, eating young papaya leaves through the night. These slow-moving snails can be found in the morning before they manage to hide under the stones and small logs or run across my neighbour’s fence. We will […]
New energy technologies require mineral resources such as copper, cobalt and lithium. A shift in the global energy system from fossil fuels- driven by cost reductions that are making new technologies are increasingly competitive and by government policies to fight global warming and local pollution-is expected to result in steep increases in demand for some […]
We have created a new category, Economic Matters, which features economic topics which would be useful to innovators in understanding how economies work. Today, we highlighted the article written by Martin Wolf, a well-known economist of Financial Times, on 29th, May, 2019. According to Martin Wolf, the state is the most important of all our […]
In late 2008 I was tasked by the then Chief Minister of the industrial state of Selangor of Malaysia, in which Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia is also located, to re-organize the state’s sand industry. The sand industry has been rife with illegal sand extraction and corrupt officials. The state collected only a small […]
Long coastline, largest number of fishers The state of Terengganu in the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia has a long coastline stretching for about 244 km. Famous for its white sandy beaches, the long coastline facing the vast South China Sea is dotted with quaint fishing villages, turtle landing sites and quite a few beach […]