Policymakers in Canberra have missed a big opportunity with Australia's national security paper.

In the rapidly urbanizing ASEAN region of today, upward mobility requires a diploma, degree, and some form of post graduate qualifications, particularly within the desirable publicly listed companies in the region.

The European project must come from the people, and not the bureaucrats in Brussels.

The first strike in Singapore since 1986 may be a harbinger of things to come as global labour flows are forced to adapt to new economic realities.