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World must step in to help
Oped, Ian Martin & Charles Petrie, Published on 24/04/2021
» Today, Asean is to deliberate on possible courses of action regarding Myanmar. Across the country, brave people, many of them children, are being murdered daily; health services are ceasing to function in the middle of a pandemic; the economy is collapsing and every well-informed analyst predicts only a future of deepening civil war, chaos and further outflows of refugees.
Technology can end waste woes
Oped, IAN CHRISTESEN, Published on 19/11/2020
» World Toilet Day might not sound like the most exciting of international commemorations. But, given that around 780 million Asians are forced to defecate in the open, and that approximately 80% of wastewater across the region is returned to the environment untreated, the annual marker does highlight one of the more immediate and pressing concerns faced by the region, and the planet.
Intel fires chief engineer after production delays
Business, Ian King, Published on 29/07/2020
» San Francisco: Intel Corp on Monday ousted chief engineering officer Murthy Renduchintala, the executive in charge of the company's vast chip-design and manufacturing organisation, less than a week after saying it has fallen further behind rivals in production technology.
The virus of fear
Asia focus, Ian Buruma, Published on 30/03/2020
» In September 1923, the Great Kanto earthquake devastated large parts of Tokyo, mostly owing to firestorms. Rumours spread, and were often repeated in the press, accusing Koreans, a despised and poor minority, of planning to take advantage of the disaster by starting a violent rebellion.
International Education in Thailand – 30 years on
Ian Bushell, Published on 28/01/2020
» The years 1980 -97 can be regarded as Thailand's golden years economically when the country had one of the fastest growing economies in the world and growth reaching over 13 percent. These were also the years when Thailand embraced international education, with increasing numbers of students going overseas to study each year.
Is Asia a rising star or a poster child for disaster?
News, Janice Ian Manlutac, Published on 07/07/2018
» Emerging Asia, which covers India, China, and Southeast Asia, will be revelling in an economic growth rate of 6.3% annually from 2018 to 2022, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). But there's a hitch: Asia is also waist-deep in alarming projections of deaths, damage to livelihoods and property, and worsening inequality because of disasters and climate change. Asia's robust economic growth is not underwritten.