This article was originally drafted by the Strategic Foresight Group for the newsletter “Asian Horizons” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Thailand is witnessing a rise in the number of initiatives by the Ministry of Education (MoE) and private sector companies to improve English language […]

This article was originally drafted by Dr. Apiwat Ratanawaraha and Noviscape for the newsletter “Trendnovation Southeast” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. Deliberate industrial agglomeration has been part of industrial policy in Southeast Asia since the 1970s. There are currently more than 200 industrial parks in […]

This article was originally drafted by Ashley E. Pritchard and Noviscape  for the newsletter “Trendnovation Southeast” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. The following text is an excerpt from an interview with Ms. Somsook Boonyabancha, Secretary General of the Asian Coalition for Housing […]

This article was originally drafted by Rob Jamieson and Indochina Research for the newsletter “I-Light” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. In the past three years, up to 25,000 young Cambodian women have migrated to Malaysia in pursuit of better paid employment as domestic workers. The […]

Anyone can learn to ride a bicycle. But in Singapore, one big question remains: Will you dare to? The clash of attitudes between vehicle users and cyclists, coupled with the fringe presence of a reckless cyclist racing sub-culture, may explain why the cycling culture has failed to take off in […]