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  • 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.

  • BUSINESS

    Steering startups

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 04/11/2019

    » James Tan dropped out of school before his final year at National University of Singapore (NUS) during the first dot-com boom to chase his entrepreneurship dream. He did not regret the decision at all. In the end, he says, we only regret the chances we didn't take, and life is too short to wake up full of regrets.

  • BUSINESS

    Want to be invincible? Learn to innovate

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 16/09/2019

    » If a company is continuously reinventing itself, it has a good chance of staying ahead of the competition. The problem for many companies is that once they become successful, or find a business model that works, they tend to focus on that and forget to renew themselves, says Alexander Osterwalder, a Swiss business theorist and author.

  • BUSINESS

    Playing it cool

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

    » When it comes to sports, skiing and skating are the last activities anyone associates with Southeast Asia. Outside of a few indoor skating rinks in big cities, the only ice you'll find is in drinks. And as for snow, it's non-existent except at the highest reaches of remote and forbidding Hkakabo Razi in northern Myanmar.

  • LIFE

    Selling the cloud

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 20/05/2019

    » During her student years in Temora in New South Wales, Helen Masters always thought that her interests lay in economics, but her inquisitiveness instead led her on another path. Her personal observations on how new technologies were changing her hometown eventually landed her a career she has followed to this day.

  • BUSINESS

    Two-way prosperity

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 29/04/2019

    » Thailand and Hong Kong expect to strengthen their economic partnership in light of the great potential of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Greater Bay Area (GBA) project, representatives of both sides say.

  • BUSINESS

    In search of unicorns

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 25/03/2019

    » With an eye on health care and education as the most promising sectors, Indonesia is expected to be home to five startups worth at least US$1 billion by the end of 2019.

  • BUSINESS

    High-speed rail needs help to make an impact

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 07/01/2019

    » For all the hype surrounding Thailand's planned high-speed railway lines, their economic impact will be minimal without better planning to improve urban amenities and productivity in the services sector, say Japanese researchers.

  • BUSINESS

    Youth movement

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 24/12/2018

    » There's true passion in every word when Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman talks about his belief in the power of youth. As the youngest cabinet minister in Asia at just 26 years of age, he is living proof.

  • BUSINESS

    Connected to win

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 17/12/2018

    » Flying over the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge gives you the best perspective on the growing links between the semi-autonomous region and China. Among them is the US$11-billion Guangshengang rail line that connects Hong Kong with the mainland's high-speed network.

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