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Manila Water: Delivering water and sustainable growth

  27 Jul 2016

Law, Business, Social Sciences & Humanities

The privatisation of Metro Manila’s water and sanitation services is a case for the importance of Tri-Sector collaboration As recently as 20 years ago, water and sanitation were a major problem in...
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Passion, crowdfunding and a Sichuan pepper gin

  27 Jul 2016

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

A husband-and-wife team turns passion into a craft distillery business In May 2016, Singapore-registered craft spirit company Paper Lantern Distilling raised S$36,680 (approx. US$27,150) in a...
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The accidental entrepreneur

  27 Jul 2016

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

China’s e-tailing scene inspired Tiffany Tan to found Cluster-Cluster, but being her own boss was not something she had thought about When Singaporean Tiffany Tan founded home and living e-tailer...
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Census-taking in Malaysia: Bumiputera, non-Bumiputera and the NEP

  30 Jun 2016

Social-Insights

Ethnic categorisation in Malaysia was once more detailed than indigenous versus non-indigenous, and free from economic policy-making pressure  Flipping through Malaysia’s population census, one would...
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Embracing “The Silver Tsunami” – Future of mature working adults

  30 Jun 2016

Human Capital & Talent Management

The government, employers and employees must work together to maximise the skills and experience that older workers can offer beyond retirement age By Jonathan Tan In a 2013 study commissioned by...
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Grandparents: The silent engine behind China’s economic growth

  30 Jun 2016

Law, Business, Social Sciences & Humanities

Migrant workers leave behind children to be taken care of by the elderly in villages – it is a win-win arrangement for all involved According to a January 2016 report by China’s National Bureau of...
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