What will be the next global transformers?

What will be the next global transformers? Oil, electricity and the internet have profoundly altered our planet, but what will come next? Gaia Vince wants your help in predicting them. Look ahead five years... ten years... fifty years, perhaps. You will be different. Older. Perhaps no longer alive. Now think about where you will live in years to come. Think about the world as a whole. It too will be different, but it's harder to imagine...

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The next phase of China’s global soft power push is exporting higher education

The next phase of China’s global soft power push is exporting higher education China’s next major export might just be universities. China’s Soochow University, based in the eastern city of Suzhou, is raising money to build a satellite campus in Laos where it will enroll around 5,000 students. Other Chinese universities have announced plans for campuses in Malaysia and in the UK. The push is the next step in China’s billion-dollar...

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China Setting Up First University Campuses Abroad

China Setting Up First University Campuses Abroad In the capital of tropical Laos, two dozen students who see their future in trade ties with neighboring China spent their school year attending Mandarin classes in a no-frills, rented room. It’s the start of China’s first, and almost certainly not its last, university campus abroad. “There are a lot of companies in Laos that are from China,” said 19-year-old Palamy Siphandone. She said...

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New Myanmar Parts 10 : Asia’s Last Economic Frontier Needs Hundreds of Billions of Dollars

Asia’s Last Economic Frontier Needs  Hundreds of Billions of Dollars The winners of next week’s bidding process to build Burma’s wireless telecommunications network will need very deep pockets, according to the latest Monopoly board-game figures for developing the country. “$50 billion is needed in telecommunications infrastructure if Myanmar [Burma] is to make full use of digital technology to leapfrog stages of development,” say...

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Indonesia in the future : Indonesia to develop submarine industry

Indonesia to develop submarine industry The Defense Ministry says it will cooperate with the South Korean government to develop a submarine-construction industry here as a follow up to earlier knowledge transfers between the two countries. “We are now preparing the human resources and facilities,” Head of the defense facilities agency at the Defense Ministry Rear. Adm. Rachmad Lubis said as quoted by tempo.co.id on Saturday. He...

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Myanmar: Room shortages and overpricing threaten tourism industry

Myanmar: Room shortages and overpricing  threaten tourism industry Last year, the number of tourists arriving in Myanmar reached a record one million. This compares to about 20 million people visiting Thailand. But there are only 27,000 hotel rooms in all of Myanmar, compared to more than 42,000 in Bangkok alone. The shortage of rooms has sharply driven up the rates that Myanmar hoteliers can charge. “We face skyrocketing hotel room...

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Thailand-Cambodia : Cambodia, Thai JBC meeting a success

Thailand-Cambodia : Cambodia, Thai JBC meeting a success A Cambodian and Thai delegation met Tuesday, in the city of Phnom Penh, to discuss economic zones and transportation routes along the border to enhance economic development and connections between the two neighbors and the region.After the JBC meeting at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong said that Thailand has agreed to buy agriculture...

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Part 9 : China - The Asian Century;China to send second woman into space!

Part 9 : China - The Asian Century;China to send  second woman into space! China is to send its second woman astronaut into orbit on its longest mission yet, space officials said on Monday, as the country works towards building a space station. The Shenzhou-10 - the name means "Divine Vessel" - will be launched on a Long March rocket at 0938 GMT Tuesday, Wu Ping, spokeswoman for China's manned space programme, told a news...

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"We must face our past freely" – Aung San Suu Kyi

"We must face our past freely"  Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke out about the need for accountability and reconciliation as an important step for Myanmar's future in a historic debate held in the capital Nay Pyi Taw on Thursday as global leaders converged for the second day of the World Economic Forum on East Asia. Speaking on the issue of atrocities committed by the former military regime, Suu Kyi told the Forum that there...

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5 ways Myanmar is preparing for the future!

5 ways Myanmar is preparing for the future! It takes decades to ramp up the infrastructure of a country. The initial years are the most difficult and fraught with risk. The process of planning and putting the approvals framework into place can take years to complete. In this context, what the Government of Myanmar has achieved in a very short time is as remarkable as it is unique. When it started, several factors that some consider essential...

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