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The Poverty Line: A Contemporary Art Project by Chow and Lin
What does poverty taste like? In their contemporary art project, The Poverty Line, artist duo Chow and Lin (Stefen Chow and Huiyi Lin) from Singapore explore this profound question by merging art and data. Since 2010, they’ve travelled more than 200,000 kilometres across 38 countries and territories, documenting what people at the local poverty threshold […]
Overcoming A Decades-Long Impasse: Driving Rapid, Large-Scale Educational Transformation
86% of the students in an urban school just outside Kuala Lumpur had failed mathematics. I stood stunned as the realisation slowly sank into the…
Re-balancing ASEAN Integration: Medical Tourism vs Migrants’ Health?
The Southeast Asian region has long been a hub for labour migration, encompassing countries with distinct (and sometimes dual) roles as labour senders and receivers.…
Empowering the Marginalised: A Conversation with the Founder of Genashtim, Thomas Ng
THOMAS NG Thomas Ng is the founder and executive director of Genashtim, a pioneering social enterprise that leverages technology to connect marginalised communities to the…
Rethinking Retirement: Bridging the Gaps between Work and Old Age
Retirement is a modern concept, mostly absent in pre-industrial societies, and it remains an abstract notion for many in low- and middle-income countries even today.…
The Generation Gap Trap
Is the generation gap real or simply imagined? Differences in values, attitudes, and beliefs between younger and older individuals are often attributed to a “generation…
Changing Room: Why the Future of Fashion Sustainability Lies in Consumer Reflection
WHY TALK FASHION? The fashion industry, a global juggernaut worth trillions of dollars, is an undeniable cultural and economic force. From haute couture to fast…
Effective resilience to respond and recover from climate change impacts
As climate change continues to affect populations globally, a pressing concern is that neither governments nor the general public may be adequately prepared to respond…
Bridging Environmental Gaps with Science: The Quest of Prof Liu Renhuai to Turn Food Waste into Treasure
PROF LIU RENHUAI Prof Liu Renhuai (刘人怀) is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He has served as Vice President of Shanghai…
Empowering Dreams: How Financial Literacy is Transforming Women Entrepreneurs
In the late ’90s, when I ran an e-learning company in Singapore, I felt an intense drive to bridge the digital divide through education. We…
