I know a few cross-cultural couples who live in Israel and every once in a while when I go back to Israel I get to meet a few more. It’s only natural, since I am on the Israel-Asia line and many of the people I know are western expats living in Asia or Asians living [...]
Looking for the best universities in Asia? There are so many rankings and lists out there, so it gets confusing. Let me try and help you… Following is the top world university rankings for the Asian academic universities analyzed for year 2010. These rankings vary in methodology and the things they evaluate. These do [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 what [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
