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KONE Experience maps out the sustainable cities of the future
In ASEAN, where more than 50% of the population live in urban areas, cities play a crucial role in the economic growth and advancement of the region.
Beef up support network so lifelong learning can yield payoffs
Skills training programmes should be even more closely aligned with job-placement programmes so that the utility of skills training is maximised for trainees and industry alike.
Ukraine crisis: Of strategic assumptions, economic shocks and a new world order
Straits Times published an opinion piece on the Ukraine crisis, the strategic assumptions, economic shocks and a new world order. The article quoted LKYCIC’s Prof Chan Heng Chee.
Commentary: What happens when women have to juggle ‘worry work’ with paid work
COVID-19 has wrought a cost on workers, families and most pressingly, on women who shoulder the invisible labour of caregiving in addition …
The new New World Order
Straits Times published an article written by LKYCIC’s Prof Chan Heng Chee on the new New World Order.
Avoiding scams – need to ‘ownself check ownself’
Business Times wrote an article about how consumers must take steps to protect themselves and avoid scams. The article included an expert quote from LKYCIC research fellow Dr Samuel Chng.
Plan to reclaim island can be updated to also mitigate sea-level rise
A plan more than three decades ago envisioning a reclaimed island along the length of East Coast for beachfront housing and leisure may …
Leasehold concept in S’pore allows for land to be recycled for future generations, say IPS panellists
They say govt policies on land help to achieve redistribution of not just the land but wealth as well.
Local agriculture push may not succeed: Researcher
The push to grow the local agriculture sector may not succeed, said a researcher at the Institute of Policy Studies’ (IPS) Singapore …
10m population not really a ridiculous number for S’pore to plan for: Liu Thai Ker
Straits Times reported about former chief city planner Liu Thai Ker’s response to a question on whether Singapore is becoming too overcrowded in a panel discussion at the annual Singapore Perspectives conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies. The article also included a comment by LKYCIC’s Prof Chan Heng Chee.