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Asia's economic catchup challenge

Asia's economic catchup challenge

Asia's miracle economies are experiencing great challenges catching up to the Western world, despite their rapid development. Read more...
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Education Asia -- myths and realities

Asian countries have long topped the OECD's PISA survey on the state of global education. But how good really are Asia's education systems, asks John West? Read more...
Drought in SW China

Water -- the top global risk

Water is the top global risk, argue Cecilia Tortajada and Asit K. Biswas. Read more...
Girls carrying water in India

Climate change? Pay heed to water

Climate change has won world attention, but a shortage of potable water points to a problem hanging over man's primal need, argue Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and Asit K. Biswas. Read more...
It's nasty weather everywhere

It's nasty weather everywhere

It's nasty weather everywhere, argue Cecilia Tortajada & Asit K. Biswas. Read more...
Ebola problem is deeper than it appears for WHO

Ebola problem is deeper than it appears for WHO

To maintain the global health body in its dysfunctional form and flawed governance structure is to make the world increasingly vulnerable to new pandemics, argue Asit K. Biswas and Kris Hartley. Read more...
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Industry Transformation, Software Defined Everything, the Internet of Things and Cybersecurity

Industry Transformation, Software Defined Everything, the Internet of Things and Cybersecurity to offer greatest opportunities in APAC for 2015, says Frost & Sullivan. Read more...
Asia's weak and fragile states

Asia's weak and fragile states

All too many Asian countries have weak and fragile states, which are holding back their prospects for development. Read more...
Asia's long suffering migrants

Asia's long suffering migrants

Migrants in Asian countries have potential to contribute to the society and economy in which they reside. But all too often they suffer from migrants' rights abuses. Read more...
Dalai lama's second day with IM. Stockholm, Sweden, 15 April 2011 (Photo: Erik Törner/IM)

Asia's fragile societies

Many of Asia's rapidly emerging economies appear threatened by stresses in their societies. It is critical to foster better social cohesion to support economic development. Read more...
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Happiness and well-being in Asia?

Asia confirms the old adage that money doesn't necessarily buy happiness. The region's richest countries are not the happiest. Read more...
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Asia's indigenous peoples

Ambitions of the international community to eliminate global poverty by the year 2030 will be challenged by the large numbers of indigenous people, especially in Asia, who live in deep poverty. Read more...
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Asia's precariat

The overwhelming majority of Asian working men and women have "precarious" jobs -- short-term, without a formal contract, no job security or social security. Read more...
Asia's renaissance

Asia's renaissance

Miao Yang, a summer student at Tokyo's Sophia University in 2014, has shared with us her analysis of Asia's "renaissance". Read more...
Human rights in Asia

Human rights in Asia

How can Asia achieve more effective protection of human rights, asks Anthony De Bondt, a summer student at Tokyo's Sophia University in 2014. Read more...
Girls carrying water in India

A deep look at Asian poverty

Asian lives have improved immensely these past few decades. But poverty in its many monetary and non-monetary forms, as well as vulnerability and insecurity, remain endemic in Asia. Read more...
Regionalism, Asian style

Regionalism, Asian style

Asia's regionalism is most certainly work-in-progress, but step-by-step it is progressing. Read more...
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Canada's economy on a knife edge

Discussions led by business leaders at the recent Toronto Global Forum suggest that Canada's economy is sitting on a knife edge. Read more...
Before the Asian Century

Before the Asian Century

The emerging Asian Century is a return to normalcy. Apart from the 19th and 20th centuries, Asia has always had the dominant weight in the world economy, thanks to its enormous population. Read more...
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Wearable Technology

With the advent of "wearable technology", has the next enterprise game changer arrived, asks Frost & Sullivan? Read more...
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