Henry Hing Lee Chan
Henry Hing Lee Chan is a businessman from the Philippines and conducts his PhD research at Singapore Management University.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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China’s Consumer-Centric Telecom Reform
In the last two years, Chinese telecom regulators have initiated a number of reforms that are market-oriented and consumer-friendly. The series of reforms has produced tangible economic benefits.
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China Continues Ascendancy in Basic Science Research
In the 2015 Nature Index published recently, China kept its number two position in the country ranking and continues its push to narrow the gap with the leading country, the US.
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Duterte Trust Rating and South China Sea Talk
A nationwide survey showed President Rodrigo Duterte gaining a historic high of 91 percent in public trust in his first week in office. The rating easily broke the former record which was held by Benigno Aquino III in 2010.
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This Time It’s Different: The Secondary Shockwave of Brexit
Most analysts predict that the financial system can take the Brexit shock and engineer the transition to a new, albeit lower, equilibrium. However, few look at the possibility of a second shock, and even fewer dare to predict an Armageddon type of unravelling of events.
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New Expression of Democracy
Many Asian countries have long distrusted popular democracy, looking at the Westminster form of representative democracy as a more acceptable way. Now with Scotland and Northern Ireland’s separation from the UK lurking around the corner, Asian leaders must look for their own expressions of democracy.
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A New Arms Race in Supercomputing
The fastest supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 124.5 petaflops, Sunway TaihuLight, is not only a Chinese supercomputer, it runs on microprocessors developed entirely in China.
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Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of China
Shenzhen is now dubbed China’s Silicon Valley. Based on the City Competitiveness Bluebook of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the city surpassed Hong Kong to become China’s most competitive city in 2014.
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Green is Gold
A report released on May 26, 2016 by the United Nations Environmental Programme shows that China will get forest cover on almost one quarter of the country by 2020 if the country succeeds in its mission towards building an “eco-civilization.”
