AVSA Countdown: United Nation’s International Year of Youth

“Youth should be given a chance to take an active part in the decision-making of local, national and global levels.” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Under the theme International Year of Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, the Year aims to reach across generations, cultures, religions and civilizations and promote the ideals of peace, respect for [...]

Singaporean Students Want To Be Entrepreneurs, Not Office Drones

Recent article published on TodayOnline: Of the 2,319 Singapore university and polytechnic students polled in a global survey, more than 80 per cent said they want to start their own business, a rate that is one of the highest in the world after Mexico and South Africa. Out of these, more than half said they [...]

Asia’s Young Changemakers: Ketan Deshpante

A student finds the entrance test to an engineering college a never-to-be-forgotten struggle. Most others would simply grumble. Not Kedar Deshpande. He turned the problem into an opportunity, producing a primer for fellow sufferers — a sort of “all you want to know about…” booklet containing the low-down on engineering colleges and their entrance tests. [...]

Survey of Pakistan’s youth

The New York Times published an article about a report, commissioned by the British Council and conducted by the Nielsen research company, regarding the views of young people from Pakistan. The study interviewed 1,226 Pakistanis ages 18 to 29, from different backgrounds across the country, in March and April and the final report drew a [...]

Asia’s Social Changemakers: Babar Ali (India)

Great story about Babar Ali by the BBC: Around the world millions of children are not getting a proper education because their families are too poor to afford to send them to school. In India, one schoolboy is trying to change that. In the first report in the BBC’s Hunger to Learn series, Damian Grammaticas [...]

10 Facts: Youth China

Another great insight by mobileyouth: 1) There are 630 million people under the age of 24 And it’ll take 5 million people just to count them according to the BBC (GB: our own and IDB data is slightly at odds with that cited by the BBC – appears to be 100m out, but still we’re [...]

10 Facts: Youth India

Great insights into youth in India by mobileyouth: 1) India is young…very young 2) The mobile market in India offers massive potential Here’s a market where there are 4 new mobile subscribers every second, with a total of 270Million subscribers. India passed the US as the second largest mobile market in the world way back [...]

Business Week’s selection of Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs

Business Week has release their finalist list for the annual Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneur award. The list includes 25 young entrepreneurs mainly from Indonesia, but also from Japan, Singapore and Korea. I found it astonishing to find no indian finalist in the list and their heavy reliance on winners from previous other entrepreneurship competition. Nevertheless [...]

Kentaro Lemoto – the new generation of japanese entrepreneurs

Inspirepub shares the inspiring story of Kentaro Lemoto, a young japanese entrepreneur who founded Clara Online. By age 15, Kentaro Iemoto was a CEO, and author of a Japanese language autobiography entitled “Why I Became A Company President At The Age Of 15″. His story began several years earlier. Kentaro wanted to be a pro [...]

Asia’s Young Changemakers: Reese Fernandez (Philippines)

Great interview with Reeze Fernandenz, Co- Founder of Rags2Riches in the Philippines: Reese Fernandez Reese Fernandez might not be famous but to the people she touched, she is considered a celebrity. For a young age, she has definitely achieved and she did this is by giving back to the community. Reeze finished her BS Management [...]