23 August 2016, Thailand Entrepreneurship is not an inherent characteristic but can be taught and nurtured within students according to keynote speakers Mr. Kjell Hakan, VINNOVA-Swedish Innovation Agency, Dr. Mats Lundqvist, Chalmers University of Technology, and Mr. Paolo Borella (Aalto University) who shared their experiences in nurturing and successfully establishing an entrepreneurial and innovative ecosystem…
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15 August 2016, Nepal In 2015, a massive earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck central Nepal causing widespread destruction. It was reported that more than 8,000 schools were damaged or destroyed and nearly 9,000 people were killed. A year after the disaster occurred, are schools in Nepal now safe for the next big…
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Ideas are the seeds of inventiveness, sparking the curiosity and the fire to explore solutions and to think outside the box. An inquisitive mind and a selfless spirit is needed to spend countless time testing ideas and theories with little to no direct monetary gain as the immediate end. Which is why many universities are…
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Look at this picture! While browsing through internet pages and social media, I came across this picture and it somehow got stuck in my mind. These skeletons were found by two archeologists, David Soren and Noelle Soren in the mid-1980s in a Roman house in Kourion, Cyprus. They are believed to be killed during an…
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The provision for housing is identified as one of the basic right of the people by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 25 as early as 1948, at par with the need for food, clothing, and medical care. This is clearly something that has been recognized long time ago, but now after more than…
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Last week, Thailand experienced a 6.0+ magnitude earthquake. The earthquake was located near Chiang Rai, the northern part of the country straddling Myanmar and Laos, and is definitively one of the largest to have occurred with its epicenter located within the Thailand boundaries. This was a big and (literally!) shocking news. It was everywhere, on…
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