Hi there, Late last year (Nov 2021), I relocated from Singapore to the US. I have help, a lot of help, from my company, friends, and a relocation agency. So…
Hi there, I recently relocated to the US for work. I have been here for about 6 months. In this post, I will share what I have learned about credit…
This post is the continuation of my last post about “tips to build a credit score for expats living in the US“. If you haven’t read that post, I recommend…
Covid 19 news, myths, and fictions are everywhere hence I have been practicing restraints in producing “another” piece of content about the tragic Global pandemic. However, I have come across a few great sources of information (beyond the obvious W.H.O), which provide not only good data and clarity into the global situation hence I want…
With the current Covid 19 situation sweeping across the globe, I have been wondering about what it means for China, her people, economy, reform agenda and leadership in the world. Kevin Rudd, former prime minister of Australia and Daniel Rosen, founding partner of Rhodium Group, recently gave an excellent talk in New York “The Economic Impact of Coronavirus”.
This post is the updated version of the 2019 post on the same topic of the Singapore media landscape. You may be surprised to learn that:
Singapore’s GDP per capita (in PPP term) is 60% higher than Hong Kong or the US.
Singapore’s e-commerce is not as well developed as China, South Korea, and some other markets.
Singapore is still an offline heavy market.
There are many other facts below and I hope you enjoy them.
Do you know that?
South Korea retail e-commerce penetration (as a percentage of total retail) is third in the world?
South Korea’s e-commerce growth rate in 2020 is expected to be 5 times that of Japan?
The US is the top cross border country that South Koreans buy online from.
Read more to find out
Do you know that?
China will have close to 1 billion internet users in a few years.
China has more smartphone users than the US and India combined.
Retail e-commerce sales in China is 3 times that of the US.
This post will include up to date, relevant facts about overall China’s digital landscape.
This is the second part of my series about the four most critical global challenges facing humankind in the next 50 – 100 years. In the previous post, I went into more detail about “#1. Climate change / ecological collapse” and “#2. War between civilizations”. Today it will be about “#3. Impact of technology” and “#4. Global inequality”.
In the first post of 2020, I want to share my learnings about the biggest challenges in the next 30 -50 years facing humankind. I am interested in this topic because well, my generation (and my daughter’s generation) will definitely experience the consequences of these challenges.
While the overall US GDP has grown almost three times since 1979 – 2018, the median real wage (50th percentile) increased by only 6.1% during the same period. For Men, the median wage decreased by 5.1%. It hit the low-income (bottom 10th percentile) worker group the hardest with a decrease of 13.3%.
It is a must-read for anyone who is interested to know how the US/China relationship may play out in the future by learning about what happened 16 times where a rising power challenged an established power in the last 500 years.