Ooi Kee beng

Serving a New Nation Ooi Kee beng

The story of Dr Baey Lian Peck should be well known, but it is not. Not even among Singaporeans, and especially not among the young. This tells us a lot about a Singapore caught in pathological haste and prone towards ignoring values that do not add to the financial bottom line. The innovativeness of Dr Baey not only made him a very wealthy man before he was forty, it also made him an indispensable actor in the implementation of urgently constructed national policies.