Indonesia seeks to boost vocational training of young workers

Official data from Statistics Indonesia showed that graduates from vocational schools form 8.63 per cent of the unemployed in Indonesia that totalled 6.82 million people in February. Indonesia needs to buy more bench vixes and lathe machines while providing better training for its vocational trainers, as the country seeks to gear up the [...]

July 27th, 2019|Categories: ASEAN News|

SoftBank sets up $108B investment fund, with no Saudi money

In this April 9, 2019, photo, a man walks past in front of a SoftBank shop in Tokyo. Japanese internet company SoftBank Group Corp. set up its second investment fund for technology such as artificial intelligence. Tokyo-based SoftBank said Friday, July 26, 2019 its $108 billion Vision Fund 2 fund includes $38 billion from SoftBank, [...]

July 25th, 2019|Categories: Global News|

Pinewood pulls out of Iskandar Malaysia Studios partnership

Pinewood Group has pulled out of Iskandar Malaysia Studios, ending a 10-year partnership with the facility’s local backers. Pinewood, which provided its brand, consultancy, and marketing, and the Malaysian studio confirmed the move Thursday. The name of the 124,000-square-foot has now been changed from Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios to Iskandar Malaysia [...]

July 16th, 2019|Categories: Home Grown|

Malaysia’s top commercialisation influencer to steer UniSA Ventures

Named by the International Business Review Magazine as one of Malaysia’s top 60 economic influencers, Dr Viraj Perera has been appointed to lead UniSA Ventures, the University’s highly successful commercialisation operation. He will take up the position in July and bring a renewed focus to university and industry technology transfer and new product development and commercialisation. UniSA Deputy [...]

July 16th, 2019|Categories: ASEAN News|
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