Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
N. Edwin Widjonarko, co-founder and Director of Technology of Xurya, speaks about his entrepreneurial journey in Indonesia’s solar power generation space.
From being trained as a physicist to becoming a scientist in a US national research laboratory, then cutting his teeth at corporate Intel, Xurya co-founder and Director of Technology N. Edwin Widjonarko has worn many hats...
Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
This needs an urgent ‘whole-of-society’ approach.
Pechara Voracharusrungsri, a 70-year-old Bangkok native, uses social media and an instant messaging app to shop online twice a month.1 This is a considerable jump in commitment from when she shopped online only a few times a year before the pandemic. Meanwhile, other elderly may find the blazing pace of...
Volume 10 Issue 1
Published: 16 Mar 2023
Digital transformation in Singapore’s MICE industry.
When business ground to a pandemic-induced halt in February 2020, the Singapore Association of Convention & Exhibition Organisers & Suppliers (SACEOS) immediately got to work to keep the country’s Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions (MICE) industry afloat. In the first month, it worked with the...
Volume 09 Issue 2
Published: 20 Oct 2022
The word ‘sustainability’ is thrown around liberally these days. But what does it really mean? At its core, sustainability is a business approach to creating long-term value by considering how an organisation operates not only in the economic but also social and ecological environments. Today, consumers across all generations, from baby boomers to Gen Z, are demanding more...
Volume 09 Issue 2
Published: 20 Oct 2022
Le Minh Hoan, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam, talks about the future of sustainable agriculture in ASEAN.
What do you see as the future of agriculture in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region?
Southeast Asia has favourable natural conditions and ecosystems for the development...
