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Hot Seat: Why Lynette Tan is training Singapore for a space future it cannot brute-force

Hot Seat: Why Lynette Tan is training Singapore for a space future it cannot brute-force

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Next Gen: Carbon data is getting more precise, but its value depends on how it is used

Next Gen: Carbon data is getting more precise, but its value depends on how it is used

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Next Gen: Renee Chong left the classroom with one question: Who speaks for the students we miss?

Next Gen: Renee Chong left the classroom with one question: Who speaks for the students we miss?

Nobody worried about the high achievers. That was what troubled Renee Chong, a former teacher and now chief o…

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Hot Seat: The problem with shallow financial inclusion, according to Lee Junxian

Hot Seat: The problem with shallow financial inclusion, according to Lee Junxian

In 2008, Lee Junxian and his partner were running a Japanese restaurant in Singapore’s central business distr…

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Next Gen: At just 28, Valery Tan wants to change how Singapore talks about menopause

Next Gen: At just 28, Valery Tan wants to change how Singapore talks about menopause

When the Surety co-founder, Valery Tan, entered the menopause space in her 20s, the assumptions came quickly.…

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Hot Seat: Why honest conversations matter more than polite harmony

Hot Seat: Why honest conversations matter more than polite harmony

It was a short taxi ride, 15 minutes at most, but it stayed with her for years. When a driver asked if she “k…

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Mid-career professionals are helping Singapore build its healthcare scene, says Lee Mun Choon

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By Lyn Chan
| The Peak Singapore Verified
, , There’s a phrase general manager Lee Mun Choon hears a lot at HMI Institute of Health Sciences (HMI Institute). People walking in for course previews, often in their 40s or 50s, with decades of a completely different career behind them, will say some version of the same thing: I want to do something I can be proud to tell my family about. More than two-thirds of HMI Institute’s recent learners are mid- or late-career switchers. They are former logistics engineers, retail workers, or bankers.
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At Stick ‘Em, chopsticks are rewiring STEAM education

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By Lyn Chan
| The Peak Singapore Verified
, , The country count on Stick ‘Em’s various pages doesn’t quite agree with itself. Depending on where you look, the Singapore education start-up is in 13 to 18 countries — although its 22-year-old chief executive will tell you that the figure is mostly marketing. “We’re pretty loose with the term ‘active market’,” Chong Ing Kai says with candour. “It’s mostly marketing speak.” Six countries, he reckons, are at a decent scale. Four or five are pilot deployments. The rest are exploratory.
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Why Lynette Tan is training Singapore for a space future it cannot brute-force

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By Lyn Chan
| The Peak Singapore Verified
There is a particular clarity to the way Space Faculty’s Lynette Tan sizes up Singapore’s position in the regional space race. “Southeast Asia sits in the backyard of four major space powers: China, India, Japan, and South Korea,” says Tan. “We cannot compete with them on scale, spending or hardware.” For a lesser strategist, that would be a concession. For the chairman and chief executive officer, it’s the opening move.
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