1. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and Research) New Era University College, Jan – Dec 2022
2. Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, New Era University College, Jan 2017-Dec 2018
3. Acting Vice-Chancellor, New Era University College, April-July 2017
4. Vice-Principal and Head, Academic Affairs, New Era College, 2015-2016
5. Director, Institute of Malaysian and Regional Studies, New Era College, 2010-2014
6. Director, Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies 2002-2010
7. Professor and Head, Department of East Asian Studies 1996-1999
8. Department of Geography, University of Malaya
   (i) Lecturer, Associate Professor 1967-1987
   (ii) Professor of Landuse Studies 1988-1995
   (iii) Head (1976-78; 1987-90; 1993-95)

Academic Positions and Awards in Foreign Universities (in chronological order)

1. Exchange Lecturer, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Hull University) Sept 1969-August 1971
2. Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, Sept 1974-April 1975
3. Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University Sept 1979-April 1980
4. Visiting Fellow, Institute of Developing Studies, Tokyo, Sept 1987-April 1988
5. Commonwealth Exchange Scholar, Dept of Geography, Edinburgh University May-June 1989
6. Visiting Professor, Brunei University 1992
7. Jackson Fellow, Griffith University, Brisbane Oct-Nov 1995
8. Korea Foundation Fellow, Kyungnam University, Korea Oct-Nov 1996
9. Visiting Fellow, Center of Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University May 2000-April 2001
10. Visiting Professor, Soka University, Kyoto Sept 2001-April 2002

Editorial Experience

• Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Tropical Geography, 1976-1990
• Chief Editor, Malaysian Journal of Tropical Geography, 1990-1996
• Chief Editor, Journal of Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2002-2009
• Chief Editor, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 2012-

Membership of Academic Bodies

1. Association of Malaysian Geographers
   Council Member 1976-95
   Secretary-General 1978-79; 1986-87
   Vice President 1976-77; 1990-95
2. Joint Chairman, Association of ASEAN Geographers, 1992-96
3. Member, Working Group on Transformation of Rural Habitats in Developing Countries, 1980-84
4. Member, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (USA), 1990
5. Centre for Chinese Studies, Nanning Teachers’ University

Others

1. External Assessor of Chair in Geography, Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong (1992).
2. External Examiner of PhD theses in Geography from Hong Kong, India, Malaysia.
3. Assessor of manuscripts for publications in selected journals.
4. Research Fellow, China-Malaysia Centre for Chinese Studies, Nanning Teachers’ University, Nanning.

• Phin Keong Voon, Western Rubber Planting Enterprise in Southeast Asia, 1876-1921，Kuala Lumpur：University of Malaya, 1976.
• Phin Keong Voon & Zhong Wei Lu, China-Japan Relations in Transition: Towards Constructive Partnership in the 21st Century, Kuala Lumpur, 1998.
• Phin Keong Voon, The Chinese population in Malaysia: trends and issues, Kuala Lumpur: Centre For Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2004.
• Phin Keong Voon, Malaysian Chinese and Nation-building: Before Merdeka and Fifty Years After, (Chinese and English, Volume I and II), Kuala Lumpur: Centre For Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2007-2010.
• Phin Keong Voon, Calling Malaysia Home: Studies on the Malaysian Chinese Community, Kuala Lumpur: Intelligentsia Book Station, 2018.
• 2022. Translation of Selected Tang Poems. Kajang, New Era University College

• Phin Keong Voon & Teik Huat Khor, Prospering the Nation through Hard Work and Thrift, Kuala Lumpur: Centre For Malaysian Chinese Studies, 2009.
• Phin Keong Voon & Ji Jiao Zhang, Enterprise Anthropology: Applied Research and Case Study, Beijing: Intellectual Property Publishing, 2011.

1. Phin Keong Voon, “Chinese and Southeast Asian economies”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, China: Jinan University, 2010: 56-64.
2. Phin Keong Voon, "Political changes in the post-independence period in Malaysia: towards democratic transition", in Xu Li Ping (ed), Globalization and Neighbouring Asian Countries Society and Culture, Beijing: Chongqing People's Publishing, 2011.
3. Phin Keong Voon, “Bold entrepreneurs and uncommon enterprises: The Malaysian Chinese experience”, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 1, Kajang: Dong Jiao Zong Higher Learning Centre, 2012: 101-118.
4. Phin Keong Voon, "Malaysian Chinese Education and Fund-raising Activities: Chinese Traditional Culture in Practice", Malaysian journal of humanities and social sciences, Vol. 1, Malaysia: Institute of Malaysian and Regional Studies, New Era University College, 2012: 1-17.
5. Phin Keong Voon, “Transforming the development frontier: Chinese pioneers in the Ulu Langat district of Selangor, Malaysia”, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, Kajang: Dong Jiao Zong Higher Learning Centre, 2013: 45-63.
6. Phin Keong Voon, Chong Huat Ee & Kim Sin Lee, “Genesis of the Xian Shi Ye Cult in Malaysia”, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2014: 37-59.
7. Phin Keong Voon, Pik Wah Fan, Siew Kian Ong & Hong Ching Goh, "Chinese cemeteries and environmental ethics: some insights from Malaysia", Universitas: Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture, Vol.47, No.7, 2014: 85-105.
8. Phin Keong Voon, ”Chinese Cemeteries in Malaysia - Culture, Environment, Sustainability“, Collected Essays on Malaysian Chinese Folk Culture, Kajang: New Era University College, 2017: 285-295.
9. Phin Keong Voon, "A Brief Discussion on the Population and Distribution of Fujian and Other Dialect Groups in Malaysia", Pioneering and Dispersing: Hokkiens Along the Maritime Silk Road, Selangor and Kuala Lumpur: Hokkien Association；Kajang: New Era University College, 2017: 77-104.
10. Phin Keong Voon, "The Chinese Language and the Maritime Silk Road: Growth, Trends and Prospects"，Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1&2, 2018: 79-100.

• Phin Keong Voon, “Malaysian Society and Chinese Studies”, a paper presented at the International Symposium on Overseas Chinese and Chinese Community Construction in the Internet Age, sponsored by Institute of Overseas Chinese International Relations, HUAQIAO University and Hong Kong Institute of Overseas Chinese, May 13-17, 2011.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Major demographic changes in Malaysia: future trends and implications”, a paper presented at the International Conference on Population Dynamism of Asia: Issues and Challenges Ahead, sponsored by Department of Geography, University of Malaya, July 11-13, 2011.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Malaysian Chinese Culture - Inheritance and Innovation”, a paper presented at Seventh International Symposium of Overseas Talents and the Development of China, sponsored by Foreign Affairs (Overseas Chinese Assairs) Office of Hubei People's Government, Foreign Affairs (Overseas Chinese Assairs) Office of Wuhan Government& Central China Normal University, June 8-10, 2012.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Chinese Teaching and Chinese Communication - Trends and Challenges “，a paper presented at the 9th Southeast Asian Chinese Teaching Seminar, sponsored by Dong Jiao Zong Higher Learning Centre Bhd, June 29-July 1, 2012.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Business professional training for the humane society: The role of cultural integrity and ethical principles “，a paper presented at the Fifth China-ASEAN Education Collaboration Week, Seminar on Business Professional Training in the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone, sponsored by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and People's Government of Guizhou Province, September 19-19, 2012.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Chinese pioneers in the development frontier: The case of Ulu Langat district before the war”, a paper presented at the 3rd Malaysian "British Colonial" Academic Exchange Conference: The Chinese Community in British Malaya, Sarawak& North Borneo (Sabah), sponsored by Sarawak Chinese Cultural Association and Institute of Malaysian and Regional Studies, New Era University College, September 30, 2012.
• Phin Keong Voon, “‘Chinatowns’ and ‘Chinese Towns’: Some Comments on Their Origins, Status and Characteristics”, a paper presented at Conference on “Malaysian Chinese in Historical Context: Interpretation and Assessment”, sponsored by Institute of Malaysian and Regional Studies, New Era University College, November 24-25, 2012.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Malayan Chinese and opium before the Second World War”, a paper presented at Conference on “Malaysian Chinese in Historical Context: Interpretation and Assessment”, sponsored by Institute of Malaysian and Regional Studies, New Era University College, November 24-25, 2012.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Changes and trends in Malaysian demography: implications and policy response”, a paper presented at Conference on Exploring and Revisiting Issues in Malaysian, sponsored by New Era University College, November 8-9, 2014.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Hanyu in the Maritime Silk Road Region: Trends and Prospects”, a paper presented at the Overseas Chinese and the New Silk Road International Academic Symposium, sponsored by Jinan University, May 13-14, 2014.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Memory of the Japanese Occupation in Malaya, 1941-1945: Atrocities, Remembrance, Lessons”, a paper presented at the International Symposium on the 70th Anniversary of the Victories of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, sponsored by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, September 2-3, 2015.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Confucius' Teaching Concept and "Result-based Education": taking Malaysia as an example, a paper presented at the Conference on Theory and Practice of Chinese Language Teaching, sponsored by NEUC Department of Education, September 5-6, 2015.
•  Phin Keong Voon, “Malaysia Chinese Cemeteries- Culture, Environment, Sustainability”, a paper presented at the Conference on Malaysian Chinese Folk Culture, sponsored by NEUC Tan Lark Sye Institute, October 10-11, 2015.
• Phin Keong Voon, “A Brief Discussion on the Population and Distribution of Hokkien and Other Dialect Groups in Malaysia”, a paper presented at the 2nd Southeast Asia Hokkien Studies Seminar, sponsored by Selangor And Kuala Lumpur Hokkien Associatian, December 12-13, 2015.
• Phin Keong Voon, “The relationship between role of Chinese and Southeast Asian Economic Performance”, a paper presented at the 1st International Conference on Southeast Asian Chinese Studies: Malaysian Chinese in the past, present and future, sponsored by The Federation Of Chinese Associations Malaysia, UTAR Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), UM Malaysian Chinese Research Centre,Xiamen University Malaysia, New Era University College, April 16-17, 2016.
• Phin Keong Voon, “the Belt and Road Initiative with the Prospects and Challenges of Chinese Communication>”, a paper presented at the 2016 Nanning International Conference on the Chinese of Southeast Asia, sponsored by Centre For Malaysian Chinese Studies, October 28-30, 2016.
• Phin Keong Voon, “One Belt One Road and the Spread of Mandarin”, a lecture presented at UM Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, sponsored by University of Malaya, December 13, 2016.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Malaysian demography to 2030: trends and implications”, a paper presented at the Forum on Malaysian Chinese Population: Mapping Changing Social and Demographic Trends, sponsored by New Era University College, June 10, 2017.
• Phin Keong Voon, “Quality of Life and Its Parameters: The Malaysian Perspective”, a paper presented at the International Conference of Academic Perspective on Education and Quality of Life, sponsored by The Research Institute for Education and Psychology of Southwestern Ethnic Groups, Department of Education, Institute of Physical Culture, International Institute, September 23-24, 2017.
• 成败论英雄-----试探东南亚华人的商业表现，马来西亚新纪元大学学院“华人华文 国
  际研讨会”，2018年11月10-11日（Between Success and Failure: Some Comments on the Performance of Chinese Business People in Southeast Asia。
• “海外‘华人市镇’与‘唐人街’：背景、特征、角色”，第四届“海外华人与中国侨乡文化”国际研讨会，桂林2019，10月11日-14日（投稿，缺席）。
• “马来西亚客家族群的人口、生计及文化探究”，2019世界客属第30届恳请大会客家论坛“继往开来，重新出发”，吉隆坡，2019年7月20日
• “塑造马来西亚的‘国家共同体’—— 挑战与前景”，对话、协作、共生：中国-东盟教育与文化传承国际学术研讨会，南宁，2019年11月13-16日（主办：教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地西南大学西南民族教育与心理研究中心、广西民族大学）
• “鼠疫斗士伍连德医生对2020年新冠肺炎疫情抗争的启示”，新格局下的区域合作与繁荣共享国际研讨会，新纪元大学校院，2020年11月6日
• “The Malaysian Concept of the ‘Community of Common Destiny’: Vision and Reality
  马来西亚“命运共同体”概念——愿景与事实“，第五届国际移民与海外华人丽水论坛
  Fifth International Forum on Migration and Overseas Chinese，浙江丽水学院，2020年12月11-14日。
• Between Success and Failure: Observations on the Performance of Chinese Business Overseas, National Central
  University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, 6-7 November 2021
• The Reinvention of Cross Border Knowledge space, UM, Kuala Lumpur, 30 Dec 2022 (Discussant)
• Exploring “Chinatowns” and “Chinese Towns”: History, Characteristics and Role, Wuhan, China, 20-22 October, 2023

1. Phin Keong Voon, “The Originator of the Malaysian Chinese Studies”, published in the “Oriental Daily”, June 27, 2014.
2. Phin Keong Voon, “he Exchange and Dissemination of ‘The Belt and Road Initiative’ and Chinese Culture”, in “Sin Chew Daily”, August 12, 2017.

1. 2012. Review of My Story by Lim Goh Tong, Subang Jaya: Pelanduk Publications,
   2004 and 林煜堂,《黃慶昌傳》，古晋：利明印務有限公司, 2005. Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 1: 148-151
2. 2012. Review of Chinese Circulations: Capital, Commodities, and Networks in Southeast Asia, edited by Eric Tagliacozzo and Chang Wen-Chin, USA: Duke University Press, The China Review (Hong Kong).                  
3. 2013 Review of Chinatowns in a Globalizing Southeast Asia, edited by Leo Suryadinata and Ang Cher Kiat, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 2 (1): 107-110.
4. 2013. Review of Chinese Capitalism in Colonial Malaya 1900-1941, by William Tai Yuen, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 2 (2): 81-84.
5. (with Goh Ching Seng) 2020. Chinese education in Malaysia. A review of Resistance and compromise: The influence of Malaysian ethnic Chinese community on the policy setting of mother language education among ethnic Chinese [抗争与妥协----马来西亚华社对华族母语教育政策制定的影响] by Chun-Yan Hu [胡春艳]. Jinan University Press, 2012, 236 pp.
6. 2021. Malayan epidemiologist Dr. Wu Lien-Teh: The forgotten hero. A review of The Plague Fighter: The biography of a modern Chinese physician by Wu Lien-Teh. Penang: Areca Books, 2014. (Original edition published in 1959, Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd.) 667 pp.
7. 2023. Chinese family business in Malaysia: Survival in the modern world. A review of Inheriting Century-Old Businesses: A Chinese Narrative, by Ng Yean Leng.
8. 2023. A new window of opportunity for research: A review of Chinese education in Malaysia: Sustainability and Development, by Ruixin Wang and Shwu-Huey Wong.

JOINT ARTICLES

1. 2014 (with Fan Pikwah, Wong Siew Kuen and Wu Fengguan. Chinese cemeteries and environmental ethics: some insights from Malaysia《哲學與文化月刊》 (UNIVERSITAS: Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture), 47(7): 85-105.
2. 2014 (with Ee Chong Huat and Lee Kim Sin). The deification of Sheng Ming Li as Xian Shi Ye: process and cultural significance, Malaysian Journal of Chinese Studies, 3 (1): 37-59.
3. (with Wong Shwu Huey) (forthcoming). The Hakka Community of Malaysia. Journal of SE Asian Studies, Jinan Univ. China

• Chinese Pioneers in the Development Frontier: the case of Ulu Langat District, Selangor.
• The Incubus of Debt: Poverty among Chinese Settlers in Pre-War Malaya.
• Chinese cultural practices in Malaysia.
• Trends in Malaysian demography and policy response.
• Contemporary issues on the diffusion of Hanyu (Mandarin).
• The Pioneers and the Land: Local Development in the National Context.
• The Chinese towns of colonial Malaya.
• Selected topics on Malaysian Chinese studies.
• Chinese Business and Development.
• Quality of Life and Its Parameters: The Malaysian Perspective.
• The luck factor in Chinese business.
• Studies on selected Malaysian Chinese socio-economic and historical topics.
• Chinese towns and Chinatowns.
• Values and Governance: with special reference to the Malaysia 2013.
• Historical development of Ulu Langat District, Selangor.
• Aspects of Malaysian Chinese business studies.
• Selected topics on belt and road studies.
• Selected topics on Malaysian Chinese and business studies.
• Malaysian Chinese Population Study: Population and Distribution of Malaysian Chinese Dialect Group.
• Local Research: History of Malaysian Chinese and Local Development.
• Colonial Studies: A Study of Malayan Opium in the Pre-World War II, Chinatown and Chinese Towns.
• Colonial Studies: A Study of Malayan Opium in the Pre-World War II, Chinatown and Chinese Towns.
• Confucius lectures and modern educational concepts.
• Economic Development of Chinese and Southeast Asian Countries - Performance, Dilemma, Challenge.
• Prospects and Challenges of “One Belt, One Road” and Chinese Communication .
• The relationship between Chinese characters and Southeast Asian economic performance.
• Chinese Culture and Language Studies: Cultural Inheritance and Innovation, Chinese Teaching and Chinese Communication.

• Title: The Belt and Road Initiative: An Exploratory Overview (2017.01.18 at New Era University College)