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The changing face of beauty in Asia

Singapore is ranked as one of the world’s top destinations for plastic surgery. The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Singapore’s Health Infrastructure 3rd out of 55 countries.

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The changing face of beauty in Asia

Singapore is ranked as one of the world’s top destinations for plastic surgery. The IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Singapore’s Health Infrastructure 3rd out of 55 countries.

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Neil Humphreys – a Singaporean brand made in Britain

Neil Humphreys is a cultural phenomenon. He is a British expat who has made a success of living in Singapore and created a rogue expat brand for himself. He is the exception to the rule and Singapore and people who read his books are better off as a result of it.

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Career advice article: Should I study for an MBA?

AS Singapore progresses through the 21st century, new and exciting technological advances are continuing to occur at an ever-increasing rate, and global commerce is fast becoming the standard for today's marketplace.

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You are what you wear

Singapore is Asia’s leading business hub. However, when it comes to business dressing, many will agree that we are not leading in the region.

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What do Apple, Google and Disney have in common?

The mobile computing industry is the convergence and consolidation of PC and mobile devices, software and apps, media and content.

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Planning the success of your consumer mobile services

When building a consumer mobile service, the initial focus is on working toward a successful launch, meeting deadlines and ensuring the system works properly for the “grand opening,” the press release, the ribbon cutting and photo opportunities.

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Managing a bigger workload in fewer hours

Asia’s banking and finance sector is feeling the pressure from global economic turmoil, with redundancies, weak trading volumes and stiff industry competition shaking employee confidence. To maintain balance sheets and achieve growth targets, financial institutions are putting pressure on leaner workforces to produce more results.

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Social Media within marketing and sales plans for 2013

In organizations around the world discussions and meetings are now ongoing in regards to their respective income and cost budgets for 2013, an integral part of 2013 planning are the marketing and sales plans and the expected ROI from the various activities.

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Housing oversupply in Singapore

With the US and European economies still adjusting to the recent drop in domestic property values, experts are already wondering if a similar scenario is due to hit Singapore in the next couple years.

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7 social media lessons from the Amy Cheong saga

With immediate effect, Ms Amy Cheong, the former Assistant Director of NTUC membership division, was fired from her job, for her hateful and disrespectful Facebook posts with regards to Malay void deck weddings.

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Is business copying bad?

“Good artists copy, great artists steal” – Pablo Picasso.

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What businesses can learn from Gangnam Style

The other day, I was preparing a video on Gangnam Style during my undergraduate class on strategic management so as to discuss its lessons for business. Even while I was testing the video, with just one “nanosecond” of the starting music, many of the students immediately yelled with much glee - “Gangnam Style!”

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Making more cents with social media

Reach, the buzzword for any advertiser and marketer. More specifically maximum reach with minimum output; and as they begin to realise, nothing gives them that leverage and effect than Social Media.

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5 business investments for the future

The last year has been a revealing one. Many businesses, struggling with the sputter and stall nature of the global economy, have started to realise the unsympathetic truth. This isn’t a recessionary valley between two growth peaks. It is a plateau. A new normal.

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Mobile computing era changed our lives forever

It seemed like not so long ago that Motorola was the dominant leader with the brick sized analog mobile phone.

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How to ace in mobile email marketing

The first few years of webmail were not so easy in terms of sending out email marketing campaigns because not everyone during those days believed in the power of and had access to this medium.

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Making resale HDB flats more affordable in Singapore

Pricey Housing Development Board (HDB) resale flats seem to be a hot topic among Singaporeans these days. Recent news that some HDB flats were sold for more than one million dollars is further fuelling unease of first time HDB buyers as well as upgraders, as their dream flats appear to be moving further and further from their financial reach.

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