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Sustainability Obligations And Liabilities For The Company Director, Richard Allen, Michael Tang, Jan Tan, Gautam Mukharya

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SGX now requires its listees to issue a sustainability report. Why is this happening? And what do directors need to know?

Combating Digital Piracy In China And Its Unintended Side Effects, Singapore Management University

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Research shows a reduction in online piracy in China’s digital publishing sector boosted creative production but also reduced writers’ efforts in engaging with readers

Intellectual Property, Innovation And The Retail Industry, Singapore Management University

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Think ahead to protect your intellectual property, and leverage on it to deliver customer value

Seeking Justice, Moving On, Singapore Management University

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Transitional justice measures should be used carefully to heal conflict wounds

The Science Of Policy-Making, Singapore Management University

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The need for science-based evidence for policy makers to understand issues, manage risks and handle tradeoffs

Four Ways That Accountants Turn To The Dark Side, Singapore Management University

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Not only those with 'defective individual traits' commit fraud

Bringing Down The Temperature, Singapore Management University

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Governments have signed the Paris Agreement to address climate change. Businesses and individuals can play their part to keep the momentum going

What Price Security?, Singapore Management University

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Non-state actors have muddied the global security picture but the fundamental problems remain unchanged from those millenia ago

Working Inclusiveness Into Society, Singapore Management University

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Treating the disabled as no different from able-bodied folks and holding them to the same standards are key

Blowing The Whistle On Whistleblowing, Singapore Management University

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Whistleblowing has emerged as an important way to uncover wrongdoing by those in power, but beware of breaking the law

Enforcing Court Orders In A Foreign Land, Singapore Management University

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Give thought to crafting an arbitration clause in cross-border agreements to safeguard your business interests

Arresting The Fraud, Singapore Management University

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Proper internal controls are important in fraud prevention

Women In Law: Having It All?, Singapore Management University

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It is extremely difficult to do so, say four senior female law professionals; ultimately, it is impossible to have the best of all worlds

Interpol’S Fight Against Cyber Crime, Singapore Management University

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Interpol needs the co-operation of its 190 member states to keep up with online criminals

Translating Intellectual Property Into Economic Outcomes, Singapore Management University

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Many nations are struggling with the same challenge – how to convert their upstream R&D investments into growth elements of their national economies.

Income Inequality: Challenges In Bridging The Gap, Singapore Management University

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Increase social spending. Fine-tune foreign labour policies. Create more job opportunities.

These were just a few of the suggestions made during a forum organized by the anti-poverty group, ONE (Singapore) and Singapore Management University's Wee Kim Wee Centre on how to bridge the income inequality gap in Singapore.

Halimah Yacob, the Minister of State for the Ministry of Social and Family Development, said in the forum that a concern with income inequality is its impact on social mobility, as people need to have “a sense of hope and optimism that they can aspire to a better life”. How each society …

Can The Next Housing – And Financial Crisis Be Averted?, Singapore Management University

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Global financial systems and economies are still far from recovering from the recent financial crisis triggered by the burst of the American housing bubble. Naturally, the investment community, the academia, and of course, the regulators would be keen to find out how to prevent history from repeating itself.

Human Trafficking: An Ancient Trade With A Modern Face, Singapore Management University

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If we believe that advances in science, health and human rights have led to a more civilised society than before, think again.

Singapore: Building A Future Without Cheap Oil, Singapore Management University

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Singapore’s investment and long history of involvement in the oil industry has been a major factor in the development of its economy. In the 272-page book 'Singapore, The Energy Economy: From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960 to 2010' by Ng Weng Hoong, he traced the evolution of Singapore’s economy over a 50-year period beginning from 1960, showing how energy has been a powerful but little noticed thread in the country’s rise from a struggling Third World country to an affluent city-state it is today.

Designing A More Efficient And Fairer Tax System, Singapore Management University

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“In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin had once famously said. The founding father of the United States was convinced, some 200 years ago, of the importance of tax design on modern economies. Today, as more politicians and governments struggle to address fiscal deficits and income inequality through taxation, it has never been more important to get tax structures right.