How can we enroll the next generation of Singaporeans to understand the importance of water? What better way than giving the next generation of Singapore’s media industry the opportunity to learn and share their experiences and thoughts from key events at Singapore International Water Week? That’s exactly what media and communications students from Singapore Polytechnic …
The Ministry of Manpower for Singapore published a report last week that said real wages here have increased for the first time since 2007, and Singapore’s unemployment rate in March was the lowest in three years. Private sector salaries rose by 5.5% last year. According to the coverage in The Straits Times on Friday, graduate …
This week is about making connections. What may seem as an incidental encounter to you, could be life changing for others. Every delegate has a real opportunity to influence and make a new productive connection. Our industry needs these partnerships and dynamics. And what reminded me? A story about a pencil. I first got to …
No matter how tired I get on a plane, sleeping is always a challenge. That’s when I start thinking that a zombie would make a good travelling partner – someone to talk to when everyone else is sleeping. The good thing about long flights is that it gives me lots of time to think since …
When I stepped into Marina Barrage for the Singapore International Water Festival earlier today, I began to melt. Boy, was it hot. It was scorching – it seemed as if the sun was deliberately trained on me and no amount of diving among the shadows of the crowd seemed to help. Also, it didn’t help …
It seems that age is no barrier when it comes to being concerned about the environment we live in. The Sembcorp Water Technology Prize national competition held at the NEWater Visitor Centre on 2 July 2011 saw applicants from the various high schools and junior colleges competing against one another to bag the prestigious award. …
When I visited Singapore earlier this year, I was given three books by Lee Kuan Yew. One was about the early years of Singapore and the other titled, From Third World to First, the latter a tome of 1000 pages that I have just finished reading. What an eye opener this was for me. I …
Singapore’s The Business Times this weekend feature a conversation with the Symphony International Holdings founder Anil Thadani, who also is the chairman of Singapore Management University’s Enterprise Board. It was billboarded as focusing on “The upside of crazy” and focused on how his seemingly far-out plans pushed the limits of what was possible, but he still managed …
Ashley Taylor and I have been given the amazing opportunity to work B&V’s Singapore office for the summer. We’ve only been here for four weeks, but we’ve already learned so much! I’m working in the Environmental & Process – Mechanical group this summer, and I’ve been helping out with two of B&V’s current projects. I …
Ever since I found out in April that I would get to spend the summer interning in B&V’s Singapore office, I have been looking forward to SIWW. I first heard about the event last summer while interning in Kansas City. I remember reading the SIWWDiary and thinking, “Wow. What an awesome experience it would be …
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