SEOUL—When you give something a name, you empower it. And so, they’ve given it a name—knowledge economy or knowledge-based economy. In layman’s terms, knowledge economy (KE) means using knowledge to create wealth. Wealth isn’t a bad word if it means quality life, not just for a few, but for all.
One of the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Award recipients I was able to interview recently was Ahmad Syafii Maarif of Indonesia. He received the award in the Peace and International Understanding category.
(UPDATED) Over these past many years, I have been privileged to meet, get to know and write about some of the great men and women of Asia (or GMWA, as we have come to call them).
MANILA, Philippines—I was in Davao City last week for the soft opening of the Heritage Museum of the Pamulaan Center of Indigenous People’s Education and to attend the opening of the 2nd National Conference of Indigenous Peoples Higher Education in the Philippines.
MANILA, Philippines—In literature, you have the boy who ate stars (two different works and authors from different continents but the same title) and in tabloid journalism, the boy who had a fish for a twin. In the recent news, we had the boy who ate MSG.
"MUSIC is a holy place, a cathedral so majestic that we can sense the magnificence of the universe, and also a hovel so simple and private that none of us can plumb its deepest secrets... It is the sounds of earth and sky, of tides and storms...
For several years now, Korean children have been coming to the Philippines to attend English camps. On board my flight from Seoul last week, I counted about 100 Korean children all wearing blue T-shirts and with ID cards hanging from their necks. One teacher was carrying all their passports.
When you are poor you think of yourself as vulnerable, you consider changes in the landscape of your life that is not of your doing as threatening. Will the changes mean being thrown about again like flotsam and jetsam on one’s native shores?
