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Capital: Singapore; GDP growth (annual %) 2016 : 2.0 %

Singapore launches new strategy for human resource industry

Singapore launched a new manpower plan for the human resource industry on Monday, to help strengthen the human resource profession and better support businesses to transform and grow, the Straits Times reported.

The new strategy covers three areas, namely training and internship programmes for human resource professionals; mentorship programmes, free advisory services and an online resource portal for businesses and employers; and an outsourcing scheme for the human resource industry.
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Singapore And Food Security

Food security can be enhanced by strategic initiatives. Land scarce nations can still do much for agriculture and farming with effective policy measures. Singapore has learned to address the multi-faceted challenges of food security with good planning, efficient utilisation of available resources and clear vision for the next.

While a lot of analysts have raised concern about feeding the world’s estimated 9.7 billion people by 2050 due to the prospects of supply not conference request, others have refuted this claim on grounds that even today, additional food is produced than is actually consumed or needed. From presently on the problem of hunger is still found in a lot of parts of Asia and Africa. The persistence of hunger reflects the fact that food security is not only about having sufficient quantity of food available, but as well about having physical and economic access to it.
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The next chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership

The next of trade and cross border commerce in Asia and the Pacific and the US role in Asia’s economy were put in doubt by Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) economic agreement.

The TPP was the economic arm of President Obama’s pivot to Asia. It was as well supposed to set the rules and standards of trade in Asia and for the world. It is no amaze again, that some of the remaining 11 members of the TPP are trying to save the agreement even without US participation. A lot of political capital was expended in negotiating the TPP and nations are looking for ways to maintain the momentum of economic integration.
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Key Facts: Full name: Republic of Singapore
Population: 4.8 million (UN, 2010)
Area: 660 sq km (255 sq miles)
Major languages: English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil
Religions: Taoism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism
Life expectancy: 79 years (men), 84 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Singapore dollar = 100 cents
Main exports: Computer equipment, machinery, rubber products, petroleum products
GNI per capita: US $41,430 (World Bank, 2010)
Internet domain: .sg
International dialling code: +65

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