Vietnam s Economic Rise
April 1, 2021 Linh Nguyen, associate director at Control Risks; Dr. Le Hong Hiep, senior fellow at ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute; and the Vietnam-based economist Raymond Mallon discuss Vietnam s rising role in Southeast Asia, its foreign investments, and its trade and politics. This webcast was moderated by Noel Clehane, global head of regulatory and public policy affairs at BDO.
The webcast was kindly supported by BDO, the global professional services organisation which operates in 167 countries including Switzerland, Vietnam and all of the EU and ASEAN member states.
Linh Nguyen is an Associate Director in the Southeast Asia Business Intelligence practice at Control Risks, based in Singapore. Linh has advised a diverse range of clients on potential partnerships, market entries, business conflicts and other commercial relationships and opportunities in Southeast Asia. Linh is also the lead analyst for Vietnam where she helps clients n
Initiated by the State Secretariat for International Finance SIF, the Green Fintech Network includes experts from start-ups, corporates, investors, universities and support organisations. Today the group has launched its action plan containing 16 concrete proposals ranging from a fund of funds to an annual innovation challenge.
The Green Fintech Network, an informal group of experts from the green digital finance ecosystem, contributes to this ambition. Its goal is to identify areas to improve the framework conditions for green digital finance in Switzerland, to suggest concrete actions and to assist in implementing selected actions. CEOs of start-ups like Celsius Pro, Rep Risk or Yova are members as well as supporters – Gerrit Sindermann (F10), Mariana Christen Jakob (SEIF) – and experts from Übermorgen Ventures, EY, Swisscom and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
Welfare expenditures are a contested field, not just politically but also in public discourse. This hotly debated theme includes expressions of support for those in need, discussions on attempts to control social benefits, as well as endorsing the preexisting images of those believed to be receiving benefits without “deserving” them.
While these debates can be found in many countries, this contribution will deal with the Swiss context and discuss social assistance, which is at the intersection of migration law and the current pandemic. This analysis is necessary in order to elaborate on the consequences that foreign-national welfare receivers face, the most extreme case being deportation.
South Africa, 09 March 2021: Rehabilitation programmes play a pivotal role in restoring dignity to the homeless population of the Cape Town Central City. Instilling a sense of purpose and pride, they adopt a multipronged approach that focuses on housing, work and substance interventions. One NGO that has helped 85 % of its homeless clients stay off the streets within six months of joining one of its rehabilitation programmes is Streetscapes, an inner city NGO run by
Cape Town Central City Improvement District (CCID). LaundReCycle is its latest initiative, which serves the dual purpose of creating jobs and greening communities.
South Africa’s current unemployment rate is 32.5 %. That means 7.2 million people have no work. Against this bleak background, it is essential to begin addressing chronic homelessness. Rehabilitation programmes play a pivotal role in restoring dignity to Cape Town’s homeless population. Instilling a sense of purpose and pride, they adopt a mul
In partnership with the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) has launched a certificate of advanced study (CAS) in coffee called Coffee Excellence.
Taking place mainly online over the course of a year, the CAS program adds to the growing field of multidisciplinary coffee studies in academic institutional settings. With higher fees and more stringent admission requirements than typically seen in non-academic coffee education programs, Coffee Excellence has been designed as a post-graduate certificate program for existing coffee professionals seeking to advance their careers.
In its program description, ZHAW said the Coffee Excellence CAS may also be appropriate for “those who have an educational background and wish to pursue a career in the exciting world of coffee” or for people who want to teach in the academic field of coffee.