• WORLD

  Skill shortage

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 03/10/2016

  » The shortage of skilled labour and skills gaps have plagued Southeast Asian nations for many years, preventing economies from reaching their full potential. Greater labour mobility under the Asean Economic Community (AEC) was supposed to be the solution but little progress has been made so far.

• BUSINESS

  Renewable race

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 23/09/2019

  » As the world's population continues to expand, our hunger for energy shows no signs of slowing. But it has become clear to (almost) everyone that the sources of that energy must change if we are to avoid the catastrophic impact of climate change in the next few decades.

• BUSINESS

  Courses in the cloud

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 19/11/2018

  » Finding teachers who are willing to work in the troubled southern border provinces of Thailand has never been easy. Persuading a qualified native English-speaking teacher to work in Pattani, Yala or Narathiwat is almost impossible.

• THAILAND

  Loved to death

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 22/10/2018

  » In March, Thai authorities ordered the temporary closure of Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh Island for the first time since 1999 to halt the environmental damage caused by too many tourists. A month later the Philippine island of Boracay, one of the world's most famous beach destinations, was closed for the same reason.

• BUSINESS

  Kim Jong-un floats a hot-air economic balloon

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 16/01/2017

  » "Juche", or self-reliance in the face of international isolation, has been the only economic strategy on offer in North Korea ever since Kim Il-sung came to power seven decades ago. But the founder's grandson and today's "Supreme Leader" has now laid out his first five-year economic plan as he sets out to stamp his authority on the country.

• BUSINESS

  Tech tracker

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 18/11/2019

  » Being a technology analyst was a fairly undemanding profession when Jun-Fwu Chin started his career with IDC back at the turn of the millennium.

• THAILAND

  Asean+3 need to retool to benefit from New Economy

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 03/06/2019

  » NADI, Fiji: The Asean+3 (China, Japan and South Korea) economies need to build more capacity and connectivity to take full advantage of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and sustain growth in the new economic order, according to the Asean+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro).

• BUSINESS

  Shared potential

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 30/07/2018

  » The opportunities offered by the digital economy come with challenges in areas of legal, political, social, environmental and economic governance, especially in poorer countries. And while some economies in Asia are reaping benefits from the digital transition, some others are being left behind.

• OPINION

  Asia gets its kicks

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 18/06/2018

  » There was no shortage of excitement in the world last week, what with Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un shaking hands and pledging to work toward peace on the Korean Peninsula. But the number of people tuning in to the "summit of the century" was probably eclipsed two days later when the World Cup kicked off in Russia.

• BUSINESS

  Digital assistant

  Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 25/12/2017

  » Riding his Ducati Monster for more than 1,800 kilometres from Singapore to Bangkok was one of the adventures Liher Urbizu completed before joining SAP, a company he had become familiar with while working with Siemens during the internet boom early in the century.

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