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13 Jun 2005
Keio Economic Observatory

09 Jun 2005
National University of Singapore’s institute for research and education programmes in global logistics wins accolades for third consecutive year at 2005 Asian Freight & Supply Chain Awards

07 Jun 2005
Family business will never go out of business. That is the conclusion of Associate Professor Henry Yeung Wai-chung after more than 10 years of research into how the family business operates, in particular, the Chinese family business.
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Giants in history
Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) pioneered the use of optical fibres to transmit images, and founded several optical technology companies. Born in Punjab, India, he worked at a local optical instruments factory before moving to London for PhD studies at Imperial College. There, he devised a flexible fibrescope to convey images along bundles of glass fibres.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer who was President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999.
Rapee Sagarik (4 December 1922 – 17 February 2018) was Thailand’s renowned expert on orchids.
U Hla Myint (1920 – 2017) was a celebrated economist from Myanmar. Considered a prodigy, he was admitted to Rangoon University to study economics when he was just 14 years old. He went on to earn a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (LSE).