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Travel with Love

When she was a little girl, Zheng Chu Yun loved to watch airplanes flying across the sky and she even chased after them. Though she could no longer do that post diagnosis with muscular dystrophy, she made a vow that one day she would sit on the plane and let ...

Green School Bali: An ode to bamboo, the world’s future

Located 20 minutes North of Denpasar and 15 minutes South of Ubud, Green School’s eight-hectare campus sits among lush vegetation, divided by the Ayung River. It looks more like a serene, though rustic, holiday resort than a school. The school’s tagline is “Equipping Children For 2025”. By that, the Hardys want, ...

Seeing Me for Who I Am

You may have heard the expression “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger”, but is that really true? What comes to mind when you see a blind person walking down the street? According to most people I ask, they tell me they either feel pity or admiration.

Open Source Technology for Rural Hospitals in Thailand

Dr Kongkiat Kespechara, a self-taught computer programmer, medical doctor and social entrepreneur from Thailand, shares his experience setting up and running Hospital OS with SEforum. Hospital OS is an open-source software that enables small rural hospitals to more effective employ their resources to serve and to address the health issues ...

A look at Thailand’s young fleet of “ICT4D” social entrepreneurs

Internet cafes and computer gaming centers line every major street in Bangkok. With that, Thailand’s new generation of innovators are no strangers to Information & Communication Technology (ICT). But what's more, they are not satisfied in using these important ICT skills for just pursuing monetary returns. Thailand is fast becoming a ...

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Feature Articles / Posted: Friday, August 21st, 2009

Live Well, Live Good – The LOHAS way

By Elaine Ng

“Lohasians” are characterized by their common belief in a world made sustainable by living green. They focus on personal health, natural lifestyle, green building, alternative energy and transport, and eco-travel

Directory, Ecology, Lifestyle / Posted: Monday, July 13th, 2009

Ground Up Initiative (GUI)

Sweet hearts for the green at heart

Ground Up Initiative is a group of young people who want to make a difference to the world they live it. They hold regular farming activity aptly named Balik Kampung at Kranji to reconnect youths to ecology.