News and insights from Asean
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
These simple yet powerfully commanding words of Muhammad Ali remain impactful to a person’s conscience until this day. Even more so can be said for the team of GE Volunteers in the Philippines who decided to take a stand and help the victims of the Taal Volcano natural disaster in the country.
When I arrived in Singapore to lead GE Steam Power’s Asia Region, I was aware of some of the well-trodden discussions on the challenges that this region faces: “Asia will continue to lag behind Europe and the US in embracing newer forms of energy, especially clean energy”; “policy bottlenecks will make energy transition painfully slow and dependence on oil and gas inevitable.”
Globalization has created an era of growth and interconnectedness among economies that drives progress around the world in areas such as transportation, healthcare and communications. As the world has grown “smaller,” new partnerships have been formed, new wealth was created, and new opportunities emerged for both developed and developing nations.
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