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Jan 14, 2025 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
MALAYSIA
A university in Malaysia has added a new dimension to higher education, encouraging a multi-disciplinary team of students to set up a mini-non-governmental organisation that works with the local community to promote environmental protection.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
ASIA
Several universities in rice-producing countries are working with students, farmers and communities to help them switch to growing “greener” or more environmentally friendly varieties and to employ more sustainable farming methods that use only organic fertilisers. But not everyone is on board. The rice-farming sector is the lifeblood of most Asian communities and is essential for food security in the region where demand for rice is expected to rise as populations grow.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
ASIA
A common space for sustainable development in higher education, which allows universities to transcend traditional boundaries, is needed to transform the Southeast Asian region’s higher education landscape in a world affected by the post-pandemic disruptions, economic shifts, geopolitical tensions and global challenges, a three-day regional research symposium held in Bangkok has heard.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
The decisive victory of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) alliance in the November 14 parliamentary election is expected to usher in a new era of clean government and socioeconomic empowerment for the Sri Lankan people. However, much depends on whether the two Asian powers, India and China, and a global power, the United States, can act as partners in helping the Sri Lankan government implement its ambitious reforms.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
PACIFIC ISLANDS-ASIA
A Pacific Ocean and Climate Crisis Assessment report prepared by more than 100 scholars from the Pacific, working in association with community leaders across the South Pacific, was launched on 11 November on the sidelines of the 29th Conference of Parties (COP 29) meeting in Azerbaijan.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
ASIA
The Asian Development Bank estimated in 2023 that about 43% of the workforce in the Asia and the Pacific region are vulnerable to changes imposed by climate change, warning that the transition to a low-carbon economy requires people to be trained in ‘green job’ skills and that higher education systems need to prepare to meet the new skills need. The definition of green jobs, according to the International Labour Organization, is two-fold.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
THAILAND
A large provincial university in the north-east of Thailand is at the forefront of a campaign using digital technologies to create ‘smart cities’ in partnership with local municipalities and central government agencies, and to build knowledge resources and tools that can be used in mitigating natural disasters in the region.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
VIETNAM
Vietnam has an opportunity to become an international student hub, a development that will help to address a persistent imbalance in student mobility patterns which currently puts the country in third place – after China and India – for net student exports, according to a recent report.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
manilatimes.net | Kalinga Seneviratne
BANGKOK — At the height of Sri Lanka's debt crisis two years ago, India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar gave a talk at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University on India's "Look East" policy. I asked him during the question-and-answer session whether India and China could cooperate to get the new Brics bank to bail out Sri Lanka. He smiled and told me that if India and China can cooperate, they can bail out more countries, not only Sri Lanka.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
universityworldnews.com | Kalinga Seneviratne
ASIA
Some academics in Asia are calling for the formal incorporation of ‘compassion’ into university curricula if the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals are to be fully realised. Universities train future leaders, but there is a lack of emphasis on teaching ‘compassion’, these academics have suggested, which is particularly important in a world marked by growing authoritarianism and increasingly driven by artificial intelligence and other ‘non-feeling’ technologies.
