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Govt plans new pension fund to support ageing population
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/03/2021
» The government aims to create a new pension programme to support an ageing Thai population that will add about one million new retirees annually starting in 2023.
China sees fewest births in 2018 since Mao's Great Famine
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/01/2019
» BEIJING: Births in China dropped to the lowest level in almost 60 years in 2018, signalling the country’s looser two-child policy has done little to reverse its slowing birth rate, and worsening the outlook for growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
China said to consider ending birth limits
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/05/2018
» BEIJING: China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children a family can have, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be a historic end to a policy that spurred countless human-rights abuses and left the world’s second-largest economy short of workers.
Singaporeans ready to work for longer as 70 becomes new 60
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/10/2017
» SINGAPORE: People in the city state on the verge of retiring are prepared to keep working for longer than those that came before them.
Jack Ma sees decades of pain as internet upends old economy
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 25/04/2017
» Zhengzhou: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd chairman Jack Ma said society should prepare for decades of pain as the internet disrupts the economy.
Japan's rust belt counting on robots
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 20/12/2016
» TOKYO: A withering factory town in Japan's Rust Belt is looking for revival through a dose of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's "robot revolution".
Thailand becoming 'old man of Asean'
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/03/2015
» Nuchnart Sakvisetchaikul got married four years ago in Bangkok at the age of 33. She has one child and doesn’t want more, an increasingly common trend among a population that is rapidly growing old.