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Is Southeast Asia set for a green energy revolution powered by small solar panels and EVs?
Such sources could eventually account for up to half of the region’s renewable energy output with proper policies in place, Gabrielle Kuiper, a distributed energy resource specialist and guest contributor at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), told This Week in Asia.
One and done: why more Singapore couples are saying ‘no thanks’ to big families
Singaporean Amber Quah, 26, and her partner plan to build a family together after getting married, and they have decided they want to have only one child.
Holding Onto Korea’s Past, a Tile at a Time
In this city of high-rise apartments and uber-hip coffee shops selling $8 lattes, the handiwork of maintaining hanoks is a devotion to a slowly vanishing piece of history.
South Korea sets up hotline to support doctors defying walkout
SEOUL – South Korea’s government set up a hotline for doctors on March 12 that Health Minister Cho Kyoo-hong said was intended to support physicians who faced harassment or peer pressure if they chose not to join a mass walkout over healthcare reform plans.
South Korea criticizes senior doctors for threatening to resign to support their juniors’ walkouts
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital Tuesday for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations.
Women CEOs in this island-nation enjoy twice the pay of their male counterparts, lead globally on board representation
New Zealand is showing the way for women participation in executive roles as well as compensation at a time when the rest of the world suffers from dismal female representation in leadership positions.