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    Industry 4.0 guide

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 21/05/2018

    » Industry 4.0 is the buzzword you hear everywhere these days, describing the rush to harness the potential of digital technology to make operations smarter, more efficient and profitable. It's no surprise that the energy industry has been leading the pack, in the view of William Ruh, chief digital officer at General Electric (GE). Its very survival is at stake.

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    Automation anxiety may be overdone, says ADB

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 28/05/2018

    » New technologies can both displace and generate jobs. Here in Asia, where demand for goods and services is growing substantially, the number of new jobs being created by new technologies is actually higher than the number they destroy, says the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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    Mind the Gap

    Asia focus, Published on 01/12/2014

    » There is no disputing that economic development in Asia has lifted tens of millions of people out of poverty. A huge new middle class is now emerging and will drive prosperity even more. And the number of dollar millionaires and billionaires in Asia is growing faster than in any other region in the world.

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    Open economy evangelist

    Asia focus, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 14/08/2017

    » New Zealand has long been known for kiwi fruit, lamb and the invincible All Blacks, the fearsome national rugby team. But in the global economic sphere, the country is also known as a champion of open economies and free trade. Last year, the country was rated the world's second-best place to do business by Forbes magazine. That helps confirm its reputation in the field of trade -- and explains why the British government chose a New Zealander to head its post-Brexit trade negotiating team.

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    Delayed marriages have major implications

    Asia focus, Published on 29/08/2016

    » Asia traditionally has been characterised as having universal marriage -- defined as fewer than 5% of the population having not married by age 50 -- but rapid economic development has led to changes in the trend in some regions.

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    Customising seeds for Thailand

    Business, Published on 14/02/2018

    » Netherlands-based East-West Seed company is vying to stay ahead of the pack with CRISPR technology applications, which have the potential of reducing seed production prices by a factor of 10 within the next 10 years.

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    3D Vision

    Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 26/06/2017

    » If you asked the CEO of an energy company if it was ready to go green, or why, you might expect a careful and diplomatic response, or maybe an explanation based on the business case for such a move. But that's not the sort of reply you'll hear from Isabelle Kocher.

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    At home in Asean

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 05/02/2018

    » The first thing that impressed me about Hideaki Iwasaki, country director for the Thailand Resident Mission of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), was his fluent English. I assumed it was the result of his educational background.

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    Guarded hopefulness

    Asia focus, Published on 16/11/2015

    » John Micklethwait is a newspaper man seized by fear and hope for the future of journalism. To be sure, "newspaper man" is a bit of an anachronistic description for the new editor-in-chief at Bloomberg News, where no ink is spilled on paper. Across 325,000 Bloomberg terminals, headlines splash upon screens in seconds, bumping stale events much faster than one wraps fish with yesterday's page one.

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    Engaging with Asia

    Asia focus, Published on 29/09/2014

    » As Australia's top civil servant for both trade and diplomatic issues, Peter Varghese sometimes faces a challenging juggling act. The changing dynamics of economic and political relationships in Asia and elsewhere keep him busy as secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), as he strives to keep his country's interests at the top of all the negotiations he undertakes.

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