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As graft fight goes high-tech, business engagement crucial
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 09/12/2019
» The willingness of governments to use technology to enhance transparency and a strategy to engage the private sector are crucial in the fight against graft, experts say.
Adieu to the ATM?
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 11/06/2018
» Hari Sivan smiles in acknowledgement when I suggest to him that the 15 years he spent as a specialist in payments at Citibank and DBS Bank helped to explain why he saw the business opportunity that eventually became soCash.
Learning to improve
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 07/08/2017
» What we teach our children will affect the way our economy develops and even what we trade in the future. Education is how South Korea managed to rise from the ashes of the Korean War to become Asia's fourth largest economy and a high-tech industrialised nation.
Vietnam on the move
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 30/01/2017
» Vietnam has made steady progress since the beginning of the Doi Moi reforms in 1986, and while the Communist government has yet to fully embrace capitalism, the country's young and growing middle class is pushing hard in that direction.