Volume 10 Issue 3
Published: 30 Nov 2023
Building dual-agenda innovation capabilities is the way to go.
At the end of the Copenhagen Climate Ministerial in March 2023, Dr Sultan Al Jaber, President-Designate of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (or COP28), said, “The international community must unite in promoting bold, ambitious, and practical...
Volume 10 Issue 3
Published: 29 Nov 2023
Jimmy Thai tells us about how the Primer Group has expanded to become the retail giant it is now.
In 1985, Jimmy Thai, together with his brother and three friends, established a small trading company in the Philippines named Primer International Corp. Four years later, it acquired an exclusive distributorship with one of the world’s best-known and biggest travel luggage...
Volume 10 Issue 3
Published: 29 Nov 2023
Getting it right secures environmental and economic wins for the present and future.
Grab, Gojek, Ola, and Didi, as well as many homegrown companies, are leading the charge in growing the ride-hailing market in Asia Pacific. In fact, the region is poised to become the world’s largest ride-hailing market as it is projected to be worth US$240 billion by 2028.1 For...
Volume 10 Issue 3
Published: 29 Nov 2023
Non-profits, governments, and businesses need to come together and use a data-driven approach to improve local basic healthcare access.
Fifty-two percent of the world’s population do not have access to essential healthcare. That adds up to 3.7 billion people, more than the combined total populations of India and China, the world’s most populous countries. The majority...
Volume 10 Issue 2
Published: 7 Jul 2023
Charting directions and steadying the ship amidst the storms, waves and currents
If the COVID-19 pandemic was the central theme from 2020 to 2022, geopolitics looks set to take centre stage in 2023. Given the war in Ukraine, as well as the increasingly strident sabre-rattling between the US and China, the rest of the world is girding itself for...
