Singaporean Minister of Education Ong Ye Kung called on academia to suggest measures to cope with challenges to economic development during a symposium held by the Nanyang Technological University on August 5.
Vietnam is pushing on ambitious plans to develop smart cities towards green and sustainable growth with the assistance of the Netherlands, heard a seminar jointly held by the Ministry of Construction and the Dutch Embassy in Vietnam in Hanoi on March 29.
The Singaporean Government’s budget spending is expected to increase 3.68 billion SGD to 75.07 billion SGD (over 53.6 billion USD) in financial year 2017 - the highest amount so far, said Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat.
If farmers do not connect with each other in the forming of cooperatives and with businesses, they will fail to deal with big opportunities and challenges.
Singapore will invest an additional 700 million SGD in promoting tourism in the next five years through strategies that tackle short-term challenges such as uncertainties in the global economy.
The agricultural sector, companies, and researchers should do more
research into the cocoa market, and utilise the by-products of the crop
to develop the sector, a seminar heard in Ho Chi Minh City on November
19.
Malaysia and Indonesia have made a commitment to increase two-way
trade to an estimated 30 billion USD by 2015 despite being faced by
short-term challenges, reported Malaysia’s national news agency
Bernama.
Viet Nam News talks to Tarun Dhawan, managing director of Riverorchid
Notch, about the development of digital advertising in Vietnam and
Southeast Asia.
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