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How a Little Rice and a Lot of Reading is Supporting Literacy in ASEAN

May 29, 2019
This article was updated 12 July
Literacy is an essential foundation of an equitable society. It empowers individuals through education, enables them to learn, and provides an important route out of poverty. Yet according to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), there are still an estimated 750 million people around the world who lack basic literacy.  Organisations like the Wilson Global Initiative (WGI) are working to change that.
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Expanding World-Class Execution with FieldCore’s New Manila Global Service Excellence Center

March 15, 2019
What does excellence look like? At FieldCore, a GE company, it looks like world-class execution on a global scale. With the recent launch of the company’s Manila Global Service Excellence Center (MGSC), that end-to-end commitment to excellence just took an important step forward in ASEAN.
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Powering Laos on Many Levels

November 22, 2018

"Originally published on Wouter Van Wersch’s LinkedIn. Wouter is the President and CEO of GE Asia Pacific.
My first visit to Laos in September 2016, coincided with President Obama’s trip - when he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the nation - and since then, I have always been impressed by the progress being made in the country whenever I return.

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Vietnam And GE – Partners In Growth For 25 Years

October 12, 2018
“Our development over the past 25 years, has mirrored Vietnam’s transformation from a newly open market, to a lower middle-income country, that’s increasing its influence in Asia, and around the world. Since our early years with small teams in Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), our footprint is now deep and wide, and we have grown to become a 2,000-strong team with highly-skilled employees involved in projects nationwide,” said GE Vietnam CEO, Son Pham during a recent customer event to celebrate GE Vietnam’s 25th anniversary.
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An Image Worth A Thousand Words: In Indonesia, A Hospital Uses Technology To Make Radiology Images Available Faster

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 11, 2018
Indonesia is in the middle of an economic boom. Last year GDP rose 5.1 percent, the country’s highest growth rate in four years. That expansion has helped Indonesia’s government launch a universal health care program, among other initiatives. As of 2017, three years into the program, 70 percent of the population — roughly 181 million people — had signed up for some level of government-sponsored healthcare.
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Smart Solutions To Urban Growth With ASEAN Leaders Programme

September 12, 2018
Where do we want to live? It’s a simple question for an individual, but a growing challenge for a global population. That’s because for many people, the answer to that question is increasingly leading them to urban environments. This was a core theme at the recent ASEAN Leaders Programme (ALP), an annual Common Purpose leadership programme that brings together senior leaders from throughout ASEAN to explore some of the region’s most pressing challenges.
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Low-Cost Carriers Are Transforming ASEAN’s Aviation Landscape

August 23, 2018
The rise of low-cost-carriers (LCCs) throughout ASEAN has spurred an increase in aircraft orders, and airport infrastructure development to cope with sustained rising demand for travel from a wide range of customers.
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Bitten By The Travel Bug – Asian Jetsetters Drive ASEAN Aviation Boom

August 20, 2018
ASEAN’s aviation industry is soaring high, with the Asia-Pacific region expected to be the source of more than half of total global passenger growth over the next few decades.
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Why Volunteering is Good for the Mind, Body, and Soul

August 13, 2018

Originally published on Wouter Van Wersch’s LinkedIn. Wouter is the President and CEO of GE Asia Pacific. 
Cleaning elephants, building a small fishing reserve, and organizing public health screenings are some of the more than 100 diverse community projects supported by GE APAC volunteers last year.

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Powering Forward At Malaysia’s Manjung 4 Power Plant

August 09, 2018
"Independent power producer TNB Janamanjung is leading the way as the operator of Southeast Asia's first ultra-supercritical (USC) coal-fired power plant - generating 1000 megawatts (MW) – to produce enough electricity to power nearly two million households in Malaysia.
Operational since early 2015, the Manjung 4 plant is playing its part in meeting demand for energy throughout Malaysia that is tipped in the World Energy Markets Observatory (WEMO) 2017 report, to increase by 4.8% per annum right up to 2030.
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