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GE ASEAN Takes on Cheryl’s Birthday
This week, a math question posed to 14-year old Singaporean students hit the internet by storm, baffling thousands of users in the process.
The GE Reports team decided to pose this brain teaser to some of the bright young minds at General Electric ASEAN to see if they could beat Albert and Bernard to the punch.
Watch here: “GE takes on Cheryl’s birthday!”
The Smell of Freshly Cut Electricity: These Farmers are Harvesting Power from Grass by the Acre
Wild elephant grass, also know as Napier grass, is one of those wonder plants that needs little water and few nutrients to produce copious crops on fallow lands. Since it can be used for grazing, it has allowed farmers from Africa to Asia to amp up food supplies for their cattle herds.
“There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.”
The People Behind the Power: Cavite Pig Farm’s Story
The People Behind the Power: Cavite Pig Farm’s Story
Cavite Pig Farm, located in the south of Manila in the Philippines, is home to over 100,000 pigs. Maintaining a farm that big, is a lot of work especially when it comes to keeping the place clean. So, what can Cavite Pig Farm do to overcome this huge mess? Convert the waste into energy.
GE Women @ Work Forum - BMW Malaysian Open 2014
Businesswomen have had a tremendous impact on Malaysia’s economy and society. On the sidelines of the “Women @ Work Forum”, hosted by GE at the recent BMW Malaysian Open, prominent women from Malaysia and abroad discuss the meaning of empowerment, opportunity and other workplace issues.
Desalination: Salt of the earth in the fight against water scarcity
The scarcity of fresh water resources and the need for additional water supply are critical issues in many countries around the world, including Indonesia. By 2015, Indonesia’s total population is projected to reach 247.5 million, as reported by the Central Bureau of Statistics (Badan Pusat Statistik/BPS). That means Indonesia needs as much as 9,391 billion m3 of water by 2015; 47% more water than it needed in 2000.
Bringing Hands-On Entrepreneurship Education to High School Students
Bringing Hands-On Entrepreneurship Education to High School Students
“Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Involve me, I’ll understand”. This is a famous Chinese proverb that describes how human learns. Most of us would agree that the greatest learning is mostly achieved through real life practice. Reading, sitting in a classroom workshop, and watching someone do it is not enough without actually practicing what we heard or learned.