INTRODUCTION Rice imported from Fukushima went on sale in Singapore on 22nd August after a lift in restrictions of Japanese food imports. The restrictions were imposed after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011‚ resulting in severe radioactive substance leakage into the environment. This has huge implications on Japan’s agriculture industry as the radioactive leakage contaminated the surrounding farm lands. The lift was announced after a meeting between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and
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CULTURAL POLICY IN SINGAPORE: NEGOTIATING ECONOMIC AND SOCIO-CULTURAL AGENDAS1 Lily Kong Associate Professor Department of Geography National University of Singapore Kent Ridge Singapore 119260 Email: lilykong@nus.edu.sg Fax: 65-7773091 Geoforum For Special Issue on “Culture‚ Economy‚ Policy” 2000 This paper was written while I was Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Culture‚ Tokyo University. I would like to record thanks to Assoc Prof Tong Chee Kiong for facilitating my
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Investment Objectives Investment objectives cover how we accomplish most financial goals. These investment objectives are important because certain products and strategies work for one objective‚ but may produce poor results for another objective. It is quite likely you will use several of these investment objectives simultaneously to accomplish different objectives without any conflict. The other five specific objectives are stated below. Capital Appreciation Capital appreciation is
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Study/Research Objectives The MOST important thing you will ever write “This section is very IMPORTANT. As part of the evaluation of your application‚ you are required to attach a one page (please do not exceed the one page limit) of a clear and detailed description of your study objectives. Give your reasons for wanting to pursue them in the U.S. Describe the kind of program you expect to undertake and explain how the proposed field of study fits in with your educational background‚ your future
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The terms objectives and goals seem to be interchangeable in many management discussions. The two terms are very different‚ and both are essential and fully compatible in results-oriented project management. Objectives drive the long term outcomes of the project. They reflect the overarching vision and expectations of the project sponsor and key stakeholders. Work streams are formed around objectives‚ as reflected in the horizontal bars in typical Gantt charts. Interim deliverables provide a
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Business objectives are the ends that an organisation sets out to achieve. A business creates plans to enable it to achieve these ends. The objectives‚ and plans that an organisation creates are determined by balancing the requirements of the various stakeholders in the organisation. The stakeholders are those individuals and groups that are affected by and have an interest in how the business is run and what it achieves. Every business has a range of stakeholders‚ including: The objectives that a
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Management by Objectives Motivating employees seems to be a challenge for managers - Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the MBO program and provide at least one example to support your discussion. Goal-Setting Theories have evolved since the 50s and have an impressive documented literature. The Goal-Setting Theory addresses the issues that goal specificity‚ challenge‚ and feedback have on performance (Robbins‚ 2009‚ p185). Setting goals and motivating employees are always an important
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culture. Singapore was an important trading center and port as early as the seventh century. By the fourteenth century Chinese immigrants had established a small community on the island‚ and the name Singapura‚ a word of Sanskrit origin meaning Lion City‚ was in common use. After Portugal wrested control of the region from Malaccan and Malay rulers in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries‚ Singapore fell into obscurity. Modern Singapore dated from the discovery
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Objectives of Firms Introduction to Business Objectives Standard theory assumes that businesses have sufficient information‚ market power and (importantly) motivation to set prices for their products that maximise profits This assumption is now heavily criticised by economists who have studied the organisation and objectives of modern-day corporations. Not only do most businesses frequently move away from pure profit-seeking behaviour‚ many are organised and operated in a way where profit is not the
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developments found within Singapore society may vary from different trends technical‚ social‚ global or even with the increasing of other high technological tools. The possibility of people being connecting and communicating by mobile devices‚ work being done by robots instead of human beings and digital books replacing real books. In the near future‚ globalization will continue with more and more people moving over to other parts of the world. The population of Singapore will have more retirees
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