Innovation
Thailand’s growth forecast hiked to 4.5%, but substantial challenges remain
Thailand’ finance ministry raised this year’s GDP growth forecast for the country to 4.5 per cent from an earlier 4.2 per cent on the...
Thailand wields the tax axe over crypto investors
Thailand is planning to tax investors in digital currencies such as Bitcoin at a heavy rate in one of its latest attempts to regulate...
Thailand wants investors acquire a taste for food innovation
In its quest to become a future-oriented, innovative economy, Thailand is putting the focus on one of the things in which the country already...
Singapore’s roadmap for economic growth revealed
A top-level advisory panel to the government of Singapore last week proposed a 10-year strategy aimed at ensuring annual economic growth of 2-3 per...
Scared of FY17 Budget cycle? Do it the Anaplan way…
Business planning and modeling is an art and requires complete understanding of business processes, combined with the ability to visualise an organisation’s growth trajectory,...
Vietnam startup gets funding from StanChart, Goldman Sachs
MoMo, Vietnam's first and only mobile wallet service, raised $25 million from Standard Chartered Private Equity and $3 million from Goldman Sachs, VnExpress reported....
Old School New School: Anatomy of a Lecture
From Cogswell Polytechnical College in San Jose, California, Dr. Deborah Snyder and John Duhring, authors of a new higher education series in advance of...
‘A smart city, in simple terms, is an efficient city’ – Dubai
Dubai is utilising the best expertise to realise its vision of a smart city that will transform it into a knowledge-based, diversified economy, explains...
‘Public health services are still weak’ – ADB
The Asian Development Bank is supporting countries across Asia-Pacific in reforming and updating their healthcare systems, which requires proper management and funding. ADB health expert Dr Susann Roth goes...
Dubai’s Next Ace: Becoming the Scholar of Smart Cities
No stranger to pioneering firsts, the government of Dubai has embarked on a mission to create the "smartest city in the world.”
In the report...
For Malaysian SMEs, new co-working spaces offer tech and cultural synergy
Malaysian businesses are learning a thing or two from the collaborative power of co-working spaces, especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which have the...
President Aquino: For cities to get smart, climate change strategy needed
In a series of interviews with public and private sector officials on the challenges and opportunities for the Philippines in moving towards a smarter...
Support for technology start-ups in the UAE recommended
The UAE should provide more assistance to early-stage technology-based start-ups that serve as a "crucial bridge" between academia and industry, according to recommendations offered...
Six ways CEOs can foster creativity in Asia
In small and medium enterprises (SME), a top provider of new jobs, the law of the land has and will always be innovate or...
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Thailand, Singapore most vulnerable to potential US recession
Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...