Disruption

Davos 2022: ASEAN’s Role In A Shifting World Stage

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will play host to global leaders later this year with ASEAN Summits in Cambodia, the B20 and G20 Leaders’ Summit in Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Thailand, all happening back-to-back.With the changing face of geopolitics and the global economy, these meetings and the preparations in the lead up, will shed light on where ASEAN stands in its on-going recovery efforts from COVID-19 and ho

24 May 2022
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Can China's Zero-COVID Strategy Hold?

China, the country where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019, is among the last remaining devotees to a zero-COVID approach to the pandemic.But after two years of virtually closed borders, mass testing, targeted lockdowns and quarantines, the strategy is being stress-tested like never before as cases surge across the country.With millions currently under lockdown, can China's approach hold out against the march of the Omicron variant?What Is Zero-COVID?China essentially closed its

14 March 2022
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The Great Supply Chain Massacre

In the period leading up to the 2008 global financial crisis, a few prescient voices warned of potentially catastrophic systemic instability.

16 October 2021
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The Rise Of Southeast Asia’s Start-Up Scene

The Airbnb of luxury luggage, Uber for home massage, and blockchain for pets are just a few recent examples of start-up ideas that make you wonder if the world has run out of bigger dreams to pursue.

25 September 2021
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ASEAN Start-Ups Are Tackling Food Waste

There are approximately 124 million people around the world who suffer from acute hunger. According to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2018 report, without intervention, 50 countries will fail to achieve the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of zero hunger by 2030.

5 November 2019
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Disrupting Southeast Asia’s construction industry

Southeast Asia’s construction sector is looking at wide variations of growth in 2019, according to the latest International Construction Costs Report from Arcadis. The report found that the construction industries in the Philippines and Vietnam ranked third and fifth worldwide, respectively, for forecast annual real growth in value.

14 September 2019
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