by Kris Kong | Nov 29, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
South Asian countries have had the potential to do well for more than 40 years. But they have yet to deliver results in many areas. What has gone wrong? What needs to be done? And by whom? Setting a cat among the pigeons at a recent convention, Professor Kishore...
by Kris Kong | Nov 18, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Rising societal tensions in the Middle East and North Africa is ranked as No 1 among the 10 most globally significant trends for 2014 in the annual report released on Friday by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which placed the growth of Asia’s middle class as...
by Kris Kong | Nov 3, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
President Xi Jinping on Saturday said China is confident of a sustainable and healthy economic growth and it will further the reform and opening up drive. Xi made the remarks as he met with a group of foreign members of the 21st Century Council in Beijing, where the...
by Kris Kong | Nov 2, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
SINGAPORE — HAVING lived and worked abroad for many years, I’m sensitive to the changing ways that foreigners look at America. Over the years, I’ve seen an America that was respected, hated, feared and loved. But traveling around China and Singapore last week, I was...
by Kris Kong | Oct 25, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
Secretary of State John Kerry blamed the government shutdown that ended last week for fueling international doubts about America’s commitment to global leadership, eroding U.S. standing and influence. Kerry spoke yesterday as some of America’s closest allies are...
by Kris Kong | Jul 15, 2013 | About Kishore Mahbubani
SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) — There’s been a lot of persuasive talk about the 21st century being Asia’s, notably in a new book — “The Great Convergence” — by Kishore Mahbubani, the ever-productive dean of Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of...