6 Jan, 2010 in Rankings by Fili An
World's Best Hotels and Resorts Awards 2009

Every year Travel + Leisure releases their list of the world’s best hotel awards ranking the top accommodation options. Looking at the top hotels list for hotels and resorts in Asia 2009, India, Thailand, China and Hong Kong dominate the list.

 
Following are the top Asian hotels in the best world hotels list for the [...]

2 Jan, 2010 in Hong Kong by Fili An
asia game show 2009 155.JPG

Why do people go to game shows? looks like it has little to do with gaming. I mean, that’s there too, but from the few shows I’ve been to it seems it’s mostly meant to show off half naked girls to enthusiastic male teens. Know what? you’re right, they don’t even have to be half [...]

31 Oct, 2009 in Hong Kong by Fili An
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2010/11

Hong Kong’s getting serious about globalization and attracting global academic talent this year with a new scheme for PhD fellowship that is quite generous. The Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) announced last year that the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme will be offered to student applying for the 2010/11 academic year. Since I’m a [...]

12 May, 2009 in Rankings by Fili An
Top Asian Academic Universities in World University Rankings 2009

Trying to figure out the top ranking universities in Asia? Let me help you out.
Following is the best of the top world university rankings for the Asian academic universities analyzed for year 2009. Many of the leading rankings for 2009 still didn’t come out, but since I’ve been asked about this, I’ll post [...]

13 Oct, 2008 in Rankings by Fili An
education = future, The leading universities : Best universities in Asia 2008

There are a few world university rankings that came out during the past few months and so it’s an opportunity to refresh my rankings watchlist for Asia’s best universities.
Various other rankings posts include:

Top Asian Academic Universities in World University Rankings 2009
Asian academic research and the top research universities in Asia 2007
Best universities in [...]

3 Oct, 2008 in Asia by Fili An
IT Competitiveness 2008 : Asia

Taiwan’s looking good. Really good. It’s surprising how good it’s looking, but – there you have it. The rest of the leading Asian countries are not far behind. In the world’s IT competitiveness report for 2008 Taiwan’s ranked second. Why? R&D environment. Or as the “How technology sectors grow Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness 2008“ paper [...]

14 Jul, 2008 in Rankings by Fili An
Miss Universe 2008 – Asia

This year’s Miss Universe is in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Last year, 2007, it was the Japanese Royi Mori who made us proud (?) and took the Miss Universe 2007 title.
(Updated : Miss Venezuela Danyana Mendoza was chosen as Miss Universe 2008)
Following are the Asian contestants for Miss Universe 2008 from : China, India, Israel, [...]

24 Jan, 2008 in Rankings by Fili An
Asia

Mercer and The Economist both release lists of the world’s most livable cities. Doing some related academic essay, I needed to rip down a sub-list for the most livable cities in Asia. It’s be interesting to read the in-depth analysis of those reports and see how they measured quality of life. I find the [...]