Recently The ASEAN Post published two articles on Save the Children’s Global Childhood Report 2019. One talked about how Singapore, for the second year in a row, managed to grab the number one spot for providing a safe and nurturing environment for children. The other article was about how Lao not only performed the worst in the region on that front, but also performed badly worldwide.
Albeit having the status of the second largest city inThailand, Chiang Mai is worlds apart from the hectic chaos of Bangkok, yet itstill offers a soft landing for first-time tourists travelling with children.The Rose of the North also a city that is steep in Thai culture and big onconversation, which makes for quality family time. Here are some of ourfavourite family-friendly activities that you and your family can partake inand around Chiang Mai:1.
Hundreds of students have fled fighting in Indonesia's restive Papua province, a local NGO said, amid unconfirmed reports of violent military reprisals after a massacre of civilian workers by separatist rebels.The death of 16 government-linked employees at a remote jungle work camp in early December, marked a dramatic escalation from decades of mostly sporadic skirmishes between poorly armed and disorganised guerrillas and a powerful Indonesian military.Subsequent clashes prompted the Nd
Advertisements targeted at young children in today’s digital world are becoming increasingly invasive and prevalent.Research on 135 of the most popular free and paid apps for children between the ages of one to five in Google’s Play Store last month – some of which were posted under the guise of educational tools – found that 95 percent of these apps contained some form of advertising. Among the ill-effects of advertising on young children include materialism, obesity and low self-esteem.
With social media penetration rates among the highest in the world, it should come as no surprise that parents in Southeast Asia are increasingly concerned about their children’s Internet usage. One in three children are Internet users according to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and a fifth of children aged between three and four have their own tablet PCs according to the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Malnutrition is a global plague. However, it is a more acute problem specifically in the Asian region.
The arrival of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) requires more investments in nurturing students in the Southeast Asian region today. This being said, education policies in the region need to be revamped to produce a future workforce that is fully prepared to take on a number of challenges. These challenges include inequalities, increasing economic interdependency, technological development such as automation, rapidly changing labour markets, and shifting geopolitics amongst others.
