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AN ELDERLY person at home is like a living golden treasure. So runs an oft-quoted Chinese proverb – but Hong Kong is starting to ponder its worth in the wake of a warning that the city faces an “ageing tsunami” along with much of the region where innovative plans are being considered to tackle the looming crisis.…

THE EAST and south-east Asia HR sector is feeling the heat more than ever to plug the region’s gaping gender pay gap in the wake of a new initiative – launched on the fringes of the UN general assembly in New York last week (September 18).…

SMALL and medium enterprises (SMEs) who make up 97% of all businesses in Malaysia (according to Govt data) are facing increasing growing pains – in terms of attracting and retaining talents due to digitalisation, experts say.

Nearly 63% of CEOs in Asia (including Malaysia) cited ‘critical skills shortage’ as one of the top people challenges their companies were facing, Prashant Chadha, US – based HR consultancy Aon Hewitt managing director for Malaysia & Brunei told People Management – quoting from Aon Best Employers 2016 study.…

AS increasing digitalisation continues to cut jobs, workforces need to adapt to this change by being more creative and above all by rehumanising leadership roles. Experts call it emotional intelligence. But in Vietnam this is still an “unfamiliar” concept especially among small and medium businesses.…

AS the growth in Vietnam’s middle class generates wealthier and more educated consumers in this country with a population of 95 million, growing domestic demand for locally-produced fabrics is pushing the country’s textile industry away from focusing entirely on exports.

While demand for inexpensive, imported clothing still exists in Vietnam, even cost-conscious consumers are beginning to seek out new styles and better quality in their fashion purchases, market traders have told WTiN.com.…

New and updated best practice and guidance are among the tools being deployed to identify and reduce risk amid the rising fatality rate in the global oil and gas industry. Indeed, international oil and gas operators are stepping up their focus on health and safety amidst concern over the rate of fatal accidents rising since 2014.…

“We don’t want to have to conform to two different legislative frameworks: one for the UK market and another for exports to the EU,” after Brexit, the British Plastics Federation (BPF) director-general Philip Law said, speaking on August 1.

The UK’s so-called ‘Great Repeal Bill’, which will convert all EU legislation into British law – scheduled to pass through the British parliament later this year – is a key part of this process.…

WITH hacking an ever-present and growing threat to the security of commercially confidential – and especially financial – information, companies are being encouraged to hold their noses and invest in ethical hacking to secure their financial systems. This is especially the case now that more business is conducted via cloud-based systems.…

Customer willingness to pay a premium for the natural health qualities of honey appears to be outweighing price hikes for the natural sweetener amid falling production levels as beekeepers have battled catastrophic colony losses.

This has reduced worldwide bee numbers, prompting fears that confectioners might adapt production methods to replace honey with other naturally occurring sweeteners, such as stevia.…

LIKE its neighbour Japan, South Korea has a tradition of using public baths and spas, notably their 24-hour jimjilbangs, with hot and cold soaking pools, bathing and massage areas, saunas, entertainment lounges and communal sleeping.

As a result, the country’s spa and beauty salon sectors seem largely unaffected by the drastic decline in Chinese tourist arrivals amid retaliatory measures by Beijing over Seoul last year allowing US forces to deploy THAAD defence missiles on South Korean soil.…