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  1. Updates: Progress of Malaysia' PENJANA package as at end-Sep 2020

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  2. Meet the winners: Employee Experience Awards 2021, Singapore

    Medtronic has bagged the coveted prize for Employee Experience Champion of the Year, while Ruangroj Poonpol, of KASIKORN Business-Technology Group was named the Most Inspiring Leader.

  3. How can we as employers build a talent pipeline with HKU business school

    Sachin Tipnis, Senior Executive Director of The University of Hong Kong, HKU Business School, shares insights about the school’s MBA career services team and the upcoming HR Leaders Forum, a conference that aims to facilitate knowledge sharing between corporate and recruiting partners, opening the dialogue to better understand new HR trends. 

  4. There is still work to be done for HR to win those at middle management and below: Study

    According to the study, only 47% of individual contributors and 54% of middle management surveyed felt that their HR teams are supportive of them.

  5. What stresses Hongkongers the most?

    A majority (88%) of the 2,363 surveyed Hongkongers say they are stressed, which is slightly lower than Taiwan (95%), Korea (95%), Thailand (92%).

  6. Salary and benefits, work-life balance, and financial health are the top three traits of an ideal employer in HK

     Having a very good reputation, remote work options, and giving back to society were ranked last. 

  7. HR vendor news: The Economist’s executive education offering, JobKred & SNEF launch TNA programme, and more

    This roundup covers funding rounds from SalaryBox and Panther Global, Manforce Group’s upliftment programme for Malaysian youth, and more.

  8. 10 cities where employees are the most anxious

    Cape Town, South Africa ranked #1 where employees were more anxiety-prone, followed by Athens, Greece.

  9. Record-high new female board of directors in top 50 HSI companies

    Research also revealed a preference for previous board experience and diverse areas of expertise as boards take on a more front-line role in shaping, supporting and pushing their organisation’s purpose and growth. 

  10. Alibaba Cloud invests US$1bn to support digital talent pool in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines

    Project AsiaForward aims to cultivate a million-strong digital talent pool, empower 100,000 developers, and power the growth of 100,000 technology startups in APAC over the next three years.