A Malaysian Invention?

Apparently the pen drive was invented by a Malaysian.

However, the pen drive is recognised as a Taiwanese invention.

This is a story about a Sekinchan boy named Khein Seng. He wanted to study engineering but failed to get into a Malaysian university. He couldn’t get a government scholarship to study overseas so he went on his own to Taiwan to study engineering at the renowned Chiao Tung University.

To cut a long story short, he went to Taiwan to get an engineering qualification but he ended up doing his masters, setting up an IT company and invented the pen drive. Yes, this Sekinchan boy headed Phison Electronics Corp., the multi-million dollar Taiwanese company that developed the world's first USB flash removable disk. They launched Pen Drive in June 2001 and by August the same year, they broke even.

There are probably many more examples of successful Malaysian or ex-Malaysians overseas, who made their names on their own after failing to get government support. Let’s stop this brain drain by providing each and every deserving Malaysian the support they need.