{"id":839,"date":"2015-08-25T01:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T01:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=839"},"modified":"2015-08-26T03:59:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T03:59:44","slug":"new-australia-singapore-research-centre-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"New Australia-Singapore Research Centre Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"penkal\"<\/a>The head of Singapore\u2019s civil service, Peter Ong, has launched a new research centre, which will feed into Singapore\u2019s and Australia\u2019s\u00a0growth policies.<\/p>\n

The Asia Growth Research Centre, based at the Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre \u2013 a Singapore-based Adelaide University campus \u2013\u00a0opened on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Ong, who is also permanent secretary at Singapore\u2019s finance ministry, said the new centre would seek to answer the question: \u201cWhat will drive growth in Asia and in Singapore?\u201d<\/p>\n

Its work will focus on services, skills and connectivity as future drivers of growh and \u201cwill help us answer the challenge of maintaining our competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Ong also said the centre will help Singapore and Australia \u201cexplore new opportunities\u201d offered by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) \u2013 a political and economic organisation of ten Southeast Asian countries.<\/p>\n

Experts estimate ASEAN could become the fourth-largest single market in the world by 2030, after the US, China, and EU.<\/p>\n

\"Mr<\/p>\n

Ong said that ASEAN, which is currently the world\u2019s seventh\u2013largest single market, would \u201covertake economies such as the EU to become Singapore\u2019s largest final demand market, particularly for services exports.\u201d<\/p>\n

The launch was also attended by the Australian high commissioner to Singapore, Philip Green; South Australia\u2019s premier Jay Weatherill; vice-chancellor and president of Adelaide University Professor Warren Bebbington and the university\u2019s executive dean of the Faculty of the Professions, Professor Christopher Findlay.<\/p>\n

\"From<\/p>\n

Speaking to Global Government Forum<\/em> after the launch, Findlay said the research centre would set up a range of communications channels to inform policy decisions of both the Australian and the Singaporean government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see the work being the result of a two-way communication between the centre as well as civil servants in Australia and Singapore,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Asked which departments the centre expects to work with primarily, he said: \u201cAny officials dealing with growth issues, so civil servants from the manpower ministry; anyone working on workforce development, technology, infrastructure \u2013 just about every ministry has a dimension of interest. There\u2019s going to be quite a wide range.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: Global Government Forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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