Dr. Shashi Tharoor joined Asia Society Switzerland for a "State of Asia" end-of-year conversation on how Asia has changed this year and what challenges await the region in 2021.
Hardly any other Chinese policy initiative has been as widely – and wrongly – covered than the “Social Credit System”. We took another hard look with SCS experts Kendra Schaefer and Jeremy Daum, and debunked some of the most common myths.
Watch the keynote by Sebastian Strangio, journalist and author on China in Southeast Asia and listen to the discussions on Cambodia and Laos with Sebastian and Indonesia, and Malaysia with Ben Bland of the Lowy Institute.
This Talk at the Library features the Natural Resources Defense Council's (NRDC) Han Chen in discussion with Martina Fuchs, business journalist and expert on China and the Middle East.
How has the boom in mining transformed Mongolian society? What answers do regulators and actors have to the toll mining has taken on the land, air, and the environment as a whole?
Yumiko Murakami and Jeffrey Bohn discuss Japanification in the final episode of The Ageing Effect series. Low birthrates and ageing populations cause low growth and economic hardship – is this true? And how can we combat this?
What are the drivers of mortality rates in old age and how will they develop over the next 20 years? Is there an upper limit to life expectancy or will we see further increases? Featuring Nir Barzilai and Swiss Re's John Schoonbee.
Ageing populations spell disaster for developed and developing economies alike, especially since society has to fund them. What kind of challenges do China's and the UK's pension systems face in a comparative perspective?
K-Pop is the center of paradigm shifts in the entertainment business, which can be mainly attributed to the industry’s reaction to the ongoing pandemic. How has K-Pop changed the business forever?
