Professor Woo Wing Thye in The Star

Professor Woo Wing Thye's talk last Friday on "The World Economy in 2012: Implications for Malaysia" at Wawasan Open University, part of SERI's ongoing Penang in Asia lecture series, was covered today by The Star:

PENANG should look into promoting its tourism and also positioning itself as an education hub, said a prominent foreign-trained academician.

Datuk Dr Woo Wing Thye, a professor in Economics at the University of California, said both fields were appealing to the growing Chinese market.

He added that Penang and the nor- thern states in China shared many things in common, especially the food and environment.

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