Trendnovation Southeast Asia

Regional Horizon / Environment Scanning (HS/ES) and trend monitoring for issues relevant to people, Preeda Chaiyanajit

Graphic Designer
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Trendnovation Southeast Newsletter is published by Noviscape Consulting Group (NCG), under the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York. Principal Investigators
- Dr. Pun-Arj Chairatana
- Dr. Apiwat Ratanawaraha

Advisors
- Dr. Donald Arthur Johnson
- Jorge Carrillo Rodriguez

Project Co-ordinator
- Mr. Passapong Boonlueng

25/08/2016

The world's first self-driving taxis will be picking up passengers in Singapore starting Thursday.

16/08/2016

Young people should be a boon to the economy. Instead, many of the young people today can't find workand don't have much hope of doing so.

28/07/2016

ในปี 2040 #ประเทศไทย จะมีประชากรผู้สูงวัย ซึ่งมีอายุมากกว่า 65 ปี มากถึง 17 ล้านคน ซึ่งเป็นสัดส่วนมากกว่าหนึ่งในสี่ของประชากรทั้งหมด

#รายงานตามติดเศรษฐกิจไทย ได้เสนอให้รัฐบาลมุ่งเน้นการยกระดับทักษะแรงงาน การสนับสนุนตลาดแรงงานเสรี และการพัฒนาระบบบริการสุขภาพเพื่อเตรียมรับกับภาวะประชากรสูงอายุที่กำลังจะมาเยือนประเทศไทย

อ่านเพิ่มเติมที่: bit.ly/29nwKSx

By 2040, it is projected that 17 million Thais will be 65 years or older – more than a quarter of the population.

Thailand Economic Monitor suggests that increasing the productivity of its shrinking labor force, further opening its free market, and developing the quality of its healthcare industry will be critical for Thailand's aging society. Read our key findings: bit.ly/29nwKSx

21/07/2016

การเปลี่ยนแปลงสภาพภูมิอากาศทำให้ #ภูมิภาคเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ ต้องเผชิญกับภาวะน้ำทะเลที่สูงขึ้น พายุไซโคลน คลื่นความร้อนรุนแรง โดยทำให้น้ำทะเลร้อนและมีความเป็นกรดมากขึ้น | ดู ฉบับเต็มได้ที่: bit.ly/29Vyblw

Under climate change, Southeast Asia faces increased sea-level rise, tropical cyclones, heat extremes and ocean warming and acidification. Find out more from our infographic: bit.ly/29Vyblw

20/07/2016

The quest for storage devices that pack ever more information into a small space has reached a new limit, with memory that writes information atom-by-atom.

19/07/2016

Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate, a global AIDS study says: http://u.afp.com/ZrSZ

06/07/2016

Address ageing issues now, World Bank urges The Nation THAILAND’S economy will continue growing and the pace could pick up if the country properly addresses future challenges including its rapidly...

24/06/2016

Cities in the survey are graded based on metrics such as public-transport networks, international connections, general safety, the quality of urbanism and architecture.

For the second straight year Tokyo has topped the list of the most livable cities in the annual Quality of Life Survey conducted by the British lifestyle m

23/06/2016

Hong Kong has overtaken Angola's capital to become the costliest city in the world for expats, Mercer's annual survey said…

16/06/2016

Batik lovers: President Joko âJokowiâ Widodo (right), National Development Planning Minister Andrinof Chaniago (center) and Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Tedjo Edhy Purdijatno (left) attend the launching of the Inpres (presidential instruction) at the National Devel...

16/06/2016

Video must be doing well on Facebook.

08/06/2016

THAILAND has become the first Asian country to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. In 2015, the number of children who became infected with HIV through mother-to-child transmission was 85 – a decline of more than 90 percent…