...Is Singapore a sustainable World City? SUSTAINABLE CITY - is a city designed with consideration of environmental impact, inhabited by people dedicated to minimization of required inputs of energy, water and food, and waste output of heat, air pollution - CO2, methane, and water pollution. It should meet the needs of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is Singapore’s land use planning and conservation authority with the mission to make Singapore a great city to live, work and play, striving to create a vibrant and sustainable city of distinction by planning and facilitating Singapore’s physical development in partnership with the community. - Singapore’s remarkable transformation from an overcrowded country suffering from a lack of housing, land limitations and poor infrastructure to an environmentally sustainable international business hub is a result of proactive and farsighted planning by URA. - During the 1960s and 1970s, extensive urban renewal projects were undertaken to address the problems of a new nation—overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure, and lack of proper housing. The critical tasks for the government then were to clear out the slums, provide public housing, and encourage economic growth by creating space for industries, and then to create a vision for our city’s urban landscape that would help Singapore in the long-term - The challenge is to keep pace with the changing...
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...Manager needs to have towards his work. Human Resource Management is one of the important aspects of any organization. This report will explain about the managerial work that a Human Resource Manager needs to carry out, if given an opportunity to work with National Art Council (Singapore). This report will spread light on the challenges that the organization is facing and what steps needs to be taken by the Human Resource Manager to solve those issues will be discussed. Introduction If the people of your company are happy then they will take care of the customers and if the customers are happy then the profit of the organization is taken care. People and their happiness in an organization lies in the hands of Human Resource Management. An individual working under the National Art Council as a Human Resource Manger need to be very enthusiastic and passionate enough to provide guidance and assistance to the people. National Art Council (NAC) consists of multiple departments (performing arts, visual arts, human resource, and corporate communication) which all together works towards a common goal which is about unveiling fine arts in different fields and bringing out ones talent. (Renaissance city plan, 2008). The individual who will be handling the post of Human resource manager in National Art Council needs to focus on the key issue within the organization and needs to overcome challenges which will help the organization to run its function in a better and smother way...
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...In contemporary society, various experts have sought ways to compare the disparities and convergence of statistics, policies and outcomes between nations. While these measures have traditionally focused on social and economic data, recent trends have extended to address other features. One important aspect in this regard is the underlying societal gender discrimination and the diverse outcome for males and females. This is commonly referred to as gender inequality. According to Dorius and Firebaugh (2010), gender inequality is where one gender possesses an excessively large proportion of valued items, such as political influence, wages or good health. Although every region of the world has developed policies and laws to tackle gender inequality, Asia-Pacific has countries with varying social and economic circumstances. This essay will examine gender inequality in two Asia-Pacific states, namely China and Singapore. The essay will consider employment and family-based gender inequality in each nation and assess the similarities and differences between them. Gender inequality has major impacts on nations, in particular on the Asia-Pacific zone. Francisco (2007) delineates various forms of inequality, namely mortality, natality, basic facility, special opportunity, professional, ownership and household forms of inequality. In this field, Jutting, Morrison, Dayton- Johnson and Drechsler (2008) argue that gender equality is vital to promote economic growth, wealth creation and poverty...
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...UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Student ID: 149159070 Student ID: 149159070 Student Name: DU WENWEN Student Name: DU WENWEN Module Code: MKT306 Module Code: MKT306 Module Name / Title: MARKETING STRATEGY Module Name / Title: MARKETING STRATEGY Centre / College: MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE Centre / College: MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE Hand in Date: Hand in Date: Due Date: 13 November 2015 Due Date: 13 November 2015 Assignment Title: Strategic Analysis Assignment Title: Strategic Analysis Students Signature: (you must sign this declaring that it is all your own work and all sources of information have been referenced) Du Wenwen Students Signature: (you must sign this declaring that it is all your own work and all sources of information have been referenced) Du Wenwen Please complete all of the following details and then make this sheet the first page of each file of your assignment – do not send it as a separate document. For online submissions, your assignments must be submitted as either Word documents (with .doc extension, NOT.docx), text documents with .rtf extension or as .pdf documents. If you wish to submit in any other file format please discuss this with your lecturer well before the assignment submission date. Executive Summary This article is based on two parts. The Part A describes Massimo founded in 1985, acquisitive by Inditex Group in 1995, which developed...
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...ESH S FR AY ALWTH MA A BY K IA IND AL GIN ORI Scoop it up Naturally. A projec t on Adv er tising Contemp in orar y So ciety to foreign m study arketing environm ents. NATURAL ICECREAM Coming to Singapore Natural Ice Cream Singapore Ltd. VI. MARKETING ENVIRONMENTS i. GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENT Location: South-eastern Asia, islands between Malaysia and Indonesia Area: total: 647.5 sq km Land: 637.5 sq km Water: 10 sq km Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 193 km Terrain: lowland Irrigated land: NA Natural hazards: NA Its major natural resources are its location and its deep-water harbour. Singapore, though small, has a varied topography. The centre of the island contains a number of rounded granitic hills that include the highest point. The island originally was covered with tropical rain forest and fringed with mangrove swamps. Since the founding of the city in 1819, the natural landscape has been altered by human hands, a process that was accelerated in the 1970s and 1980s. By 1988, Singapore's land area was 49 percent built up, and forest covered only 2.5 percent. • • • • • Singapore Weather ! Singapore is two degrees north of the equator and has a tropical climate, with high temperatures moderated by the influence of the sea. ! Average daily temperature and humidity are high, with a mean maximum of 31°C and a relative humidity of 70 to 80 percent in the afternoon. ! Rain falls throughout the year, but is heaviest during the early northeast monsoon from...
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...Reproduced from Federal-State Relations in Sabah, Malaysia: The Berjaya Administration, 1976-85 by Regina Lim (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008). This version was obtained electronically direct from the publisher on condition that copyright is not infringed. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior permission of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Individual articles are available at < http://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg > REFERENCES Abinales, Patricio N. Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the Formation of the Philippine Nation-state. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000. Abinales, Patricio N. and Donna J. Amoroso. State and Society in the Philippines. Lanham, M.D.: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. Ahmad Ibrahim. “The Administration of Muslim Law Enactment, Sabah, 1977 (No. 15 of 1977)”. Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law 5, no. 2 (1978): 359–62. Andaya, Barbara W. “Cash Cropping and Upstream-downstream Tensions: The Case of Jambi in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”. In Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Era: Trade, Power, and Belief, edited by Anthony Reid. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. Baker, M. H. Sabah: The First Ten Years as a Colony. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia Publishing House, 1965. Black, Ian. “The Ending of Brunei Rule in Sabah, 1878–1902”. Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 41, no. 2 (1968): 176–92. ———. A Gambling Style of Government:...
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...operations and investments in more than 20 countries and territories globally, primary in communications companies beyond Singapore’s border. Exhibit 1 shows SingTel’s investments in various regions. Today, SingTel is listed on the Singapore Exchange, and also the Australian Stock Exchange with the acquisition of Optus in 2001 (Sainsbury 2005). Being the largest company listed on the Singapore Exchange, SingTel had a market capitalization of S$50 billion, and had a turnover of S$16.87 million and net profit after tax of S$3.91 million for the year ended March 2010 (Singapore Telecommunications Limited 2010) as shown in Exhibit 2. Despite enduring a global financial crisis, SingTel is still ranked the top mobile service provider and national telephone provider in its home base, with a market share of 44% and 86% respectively (SingTel 2010). History of Singapore’s Telecommunications Industry SingTel’s heritage could be traced back to 1879, when Singapore became one of the first cities in the East to have telephone service (SingTel 2011). In the mid-1950s, telephone services in Singapore were managed by British interests and Singapore Telephone Board (STB) was incorporated as a statutory board with exclusive rights to operate telephone service within Singapore (SingTel 2011). The STB and the 2 Managing Change BUSM 1208 Telecommunications Department, which dealt with international telecommunications, were merged in...
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...Delhi Business Review X Vol. 5, No. 1, January - June 2004 STRATEGIC INDUSTRY STRATEGIC ISSUES IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY AND SINGAPORE INTERNATION THE ROLE OF SING APORE INTERNATIO NAL AIRLINES Amit C. Kamath * Jonas Tornquist ** I NTRODUCTION THIS case study investigates the strategic environment of the airline industry operates. In particular, the role of Singapore International Airlines (SIA) in the global airline industry is considered. The study uses the concept of the “Three Ring Circus” (KCI , 2002), as an overarching framework, whereby the Past, the Present and the PFuture is used for studying the strategic issues in the airline industry and SIA. The past focuses on the key strategic drivers in the airline industry over the past 10-20 years and provides a historic industry overview. The present serves the role of looking at the airline industry and SIA’s present strategic drivers and what is important to consider in this environment. The Possible Futures, or PFutures, looks at what potential drivers or strategic advantages may be present in future, and how SIA is responding to some of these issues. The research in this project is mainly qualitative. It is based on interviews with key people within the airline industry, government officials, industry analysts and stakeholders. The analysis is also based on a review of the airline industry literature as well as the personal reflections of the authors in drawing together some key issues and insights that may...
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...Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. Lee Kuan Yew, 6.10.1997 Introduction ‘History’, observes Adorno, ‘is the unity of continuity and discontinuity’. Even a basic awareness to this reality should be enough to prevent anyone – especially the new sojourner into the realm of political science – from making coarse comparisons between past and present. And yet, sometimes the picture is so compelling, so painfully clear, that it simply cannot be ignored. Faced with it, all one can do is carefully explore the contours of the ancient and the new, hoping to retain enough responsibility to open his eyes to the differences when they manifest themselves. This is what the current paper sets out to do. Though hundreds of years and thousands of miles stand between 16th century Italy and 20th century Singapore, between the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli and the statecraft of Lee Kuan Yew, the similarities are extraordinary. This paper will argue that the political views and actions of Singapore’s ruling elite – more precisely, those of the country’s ‘founding father’ Lee Kuan Yew – can be powerfully interpreted through an application of Machiavellian principles. This interpretation takes place on two levels. First, the political actions of Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) can be shown to consistently reflect Machiavelli’s prescriptions for maintaining an authoritarian regime, diffusing discontent and crushing opposition. Singapore is a country where...
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...audience consumption of Japanese popular culture in a transnational Asian context. In other words, he examines Japan's encounter with a 'modern' Asia by focusing on the diffusion of its commercialized popular culture. This has been made possible by the globalization of media, which itself encouraged an incipient expansion of a hitherto largely domestic-oriented Japanese media production system to other Asian markets. There have been two results from this expansion of mediated popular culture. In the first place, it brings into question the assumed hegemony of American mass culture (from Disney to McDonald's) and shows how, in East and Southeast Asia at least, Japanese contemporary culture is extremely significant – especially in the global cities of Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore and so on. Second, and more troubling so far as Iwabuchi is concerned, Japan's 'return to Asia' from the 1990s, when it began reasserting its Asian identity, contains echoes of World War II colonialism since Japanese tend to regard themselves as 'above' other Asian countries because of their superior technology and production capacity. This means that there is a continuous potential for serious misunderstandings between the Japanese and their Asian neighbours. Iwabuchi contextualizes his discussion of research data in the general theoretical discourses of globalization and transnationalism, and provides a far more nuanced discussion of globalizing processes and flows than ...
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...The future of tourism in ASEAN Introduction With the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War, there was no longer a pressing need for ASEAN countries to fear their Communist neighbours such as Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. These countries had started to abandon central planning and implement market-oriented economic reforms from the early 80s, changes which had significant implications for trade and investment opportunities and indicated the need for enlargement of the ASEAN regional grouping in order to maintain its relevance (Wong, Mistilis & Dwyer, 2011a). The momentum to expand ASEAN was further accelerated by the need to strengthen the region’s voice in international trading bodies such as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, the World Trade Organization, and in negotiations with the European Union (Tan, 2003). Between 1995 and 1997, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) joined ASEAN. They are sometimes referred to as newer members with less-developed economies. With the ASEAN Concord II in late 2003, Southeast Asia charted an ambitious path toward creating a community (AC) founded on economic, security and socio-cultural pillars. In contrast to the EU on which the agreement is loosely based, have rested on open dialogue and concensus processes that have allowed politically and economic diverse nations to cooperate at the regional level. The progress of on ASEAN Concord II will rest on strong regional diplomacy and management...
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...com/locate/pplann Global city making in Singapore: a real estate perspective Sun Sheng Han Department of Real Estate, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore, 4 Architecture Drive, Singapore, Singapore 117566 CHAPTER 1 Introduction ‘Global city’ is a notion popularly cited among planning academics and practitioners in describing some strategic places in the world economy. Pioneer researchers in this area define global cities as basing points of capital in a world economy (Friedmann, 1986: 71); production centres of specialized information services such as financial services, media services, educational and health services, and centres of tourism (Hall, 1998: 24); and centres for servicing and financing international trade, investment and headquarters operations (Sassen, 2004: 171). Summarizing those perspectives and recognizing the influence of a new economy, which can be characterized as informational, global and networked (Castells, 2000: 27), global cities can be seen as the urban nodes where globalization materializes so that they are (1) highly concentrated command points in the organization of the world economy; (2) key locations for finance and specialized service firms; (3) sites of production of innovation; (4) markets for the products and innovations produced (Sassen, 2001: 3 and 4). Taylor (2004) has argued that these perspectives involve understanding just the attributes of cities and suggests that the key roles of global city are shaped by the...
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...[pic] [pic] [pic] [pic] |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | |MALASIYA |SINGAPORE |THAILAND | |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | |INDONESIA |LAOS |PHILIPINES | |[pic] |[pic] |[pic] | |BURMA |VIETNAM |BRUNEI | | [pic] | |CAMBODIA | MALAYSIA Facts and Statistics Ethnic Make-up: Malay 50.4%, Chinese 23.7%, indigenous 11%, Indian 7.1%, others 7.8% ...
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...MALAYSIA – SINGAPORE RELATIONS: THE SECURITY DILEMMAS INTRODUCTION ‘It's impossible to be friendly with Singapore because of the neighbouring city states’ unfriendliness towards Malaysia. Singapore gets into that kind of mood that they reject anything that comes from Malaysia. We try to be as friendly as possible but it's impossible’.[1] Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad Former Malaysia Prime Minister “…we fear that at some time or other there could be a random act of madness like cutting off our water supplies, which they had publicly threatened whenever there were differences between us… we have to be prepared for all contingencies”.[2] Lee Kuan Yew Former Singapore Prime Minister Singapore became a part of Malaysia in 1963. On the part of Singapore, such was a welcomed move as Singapore lacks the depth, mass and resources deemed necessary for development and survival. On the part of Malaysia, however, it started-off as a half-hearted decision, with Tunku Abdul Rahman fearing that the Chinese population in Singapore would, after the merger, upset the Malay majority in Malaya. In May 1960, he told Malayan students in London that “(The) Chinese-educated and new immigrants will always be loyal to China and they are less Malay-minded,” and that the inclusion of the 1.3 million Chinese would confuse Malayans and ruin the calm atmosphere of the Federation[3]...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ……………………………………………………………………………. 4 2. PROPERTY BUBBLES IN HONG KONG ………………………………….…………….. 5 INFLATION AND INFLATION RATE IN HONG KONG ……………………………….. 10 3. CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………18 4. REFERENCES ……………………………………………………………………………..19 5. APPENDICIES …………………………………………………………………………..... 20 Appendix 1 ………………………………………………………………………………… 20 Appendix 2 ………………………………………………………………………………… 21 Appendix 3 ………………………………………………………………………………… 22 Appendix 4 …………………………………………………………………………………23 Appendix 5 ………………………………………………………………………………… 24 Appendix 6 ………………………………………………………………………………… 25 INTRODUCTION Resources and scarcity are the basic elements and tenet of economics, so resources and scarcity are related to human wants and desires. Money and time are the most constantly for the resources and scarcity which are the allocation from the resources and impacting the economically efficiency. Hong Kong has been enjoyed as one of the four dragons in Asia for 30 years with the rapid growth of economy worldwide and globalization, but she also suffers from the worldwide downside of economy due to the poor fundamental and lack of long–run strategies that trigger the existing difficult situation. There have many issues and challenges threatening Hong Kong economy recently, we analysis and evaluate two important problems, (1) Property bubbles in Hong Kong...
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