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asiamagazine2010 NO 16 A MAGAZINE BY CHALMERS STUDENTS IN ASIA
DISCOVER THE PHILIPPINES
INVESTMENT BANKING IN SINGAPORE
INTERESTED IN EXCHANGE STUDIES?CONSIDER WORLD WIDE IN ASIA!
WHO WILL FEED THE CHINESE DRAGON?
asiamagazineWHAT IS CHALMERS INTERNATIONAL TAIWAN OFFICE?
THE CHALMERS ASIA MAGAZINE
EDITOR
ANDERS MATTSSON
ART DIRECTOR KRISTOFER JOVANOV
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asiaContents
asiaReport4 THE WESTERNISATION OF
KOREA
6 THE RETURN TO INNOCENCE
8 INVESTMENT BANKING -
THE EASIEST WAY FOR
SINGAPOREANS TO BECOME
RICH
10 THE NEW DIRECTION OF THE
CHINESE DRAGON
12 NEXT STOP FOR EVERYONE:
THE PHILIPPINES
15 ECFA - DIFFERENT
PERSPECTIVES
18 BIG DIFFERENCE IN LITTLE
SINGAPORE?
20 TAIWANESE DEMOCRACY -
NOT FOR GRANTED!
22 THE SCHOOL THAT NEVER
SLEEPS
24 їკˁ̂ฃî- DO YOU
SPEAK CHINESE?
asiaOffice2 ASIA LETTER
2 ASIA CHRONICLE
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“We weep over old Korea, a victim, not so much of po-litical agencies, as of the social and intellectual revolution that has come from the west” wrote protestant scholar-missionary James Scarth Gale in the late 1920s. Culture
current information technology and the speed of com-
western culture is so well-known and popular that it’s drowning out all other kinds of world culture? In Korea this seems to be the case.
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customs and languages more or less forced upon them. It is only since the start of the democracy movement of
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-gapore we have realised that many Singaporeans view
A recent study from Boston Consulting Group (BCG) shows that 11.4% of the households in Singapore have
percentage represents the highest in the world. In addi-
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The New Direction of the Chinese Dragon
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velopment and with enormous opportunities for busi-nesses. How well-grounded are these statements con-cerning Chinas development? And in what direction is the development moving? Having spent a few months
the opportunity to go to China and its economic centre
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anyone. It almost felt like we had found a place that no one knew about. Should we keep quiet about it or shout it out to the world – this is the place! Since this
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of establishing a stronger and more advanced trade and investments collaboration between the two zones.
international competitiveness and ease tensions in the Cross-Straight ties.
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schools with endless opportunities. But does it really make a difference what school you go to in a country as small as Singapore? Who could be better suited to in-vestigate the differences between the schools than two students from the same program at Chalmers – going
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Standard Chinese (Mandarin) is by far the most spo-ken language in the world. With over 930 million native speakers it has more than twice as many native speak-
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