https://www.scmp.com/rss/322626/feed The Asian Leadership Conference, hosted by The Chosunilbo, is South Korea's premier international conference. It features global leaders coming together to discuss and provide possible solutions for the pressing issues facing Asia today. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China, the United States, South Korea and Japan should discuss military cooperation in case the North Korean regime collapses, a former US commander has said. General Walter Sharp, former commander of the ROK-US combined forces command, told the South China Morning Post on Wednesday that the possibility of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s regime collapsing was increasing because of internal forces. More information from outside the country was now entering the once-insulated state; it was also... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1946771/china-us-and-others-should-join-hands-make-plans-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1946771/china-us-and-others-should-join-hands-make-plans-case?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 May 2016 10:00:00 +0000 China, the world’s second largest venture capital market, may have seen a record number of new start-ups last year, but it’s struggled on another abstract metric of success -- the output of unicorns, or young companies with a valuation of at least US$1 billion. “It is a fact that many newly set up companies would fail. It is not just the case in the mainland China but many start ups in Silicon Valley in the US also have a lot of failures. It is not easy to find the unicorns,” said Young Guo,... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/1946763/chinas-booming-start-culture-lures-venture-capitalists-search-next-us1b?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/article/1946763/chinas-booming-start-culture-lures-venture-capitalists-search-next-us1b?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 May 2016 08:45:30 +0000 While many companies rely on the so-called big data they collect from the internet, they may not make the best business decisions if they do not heed the small data on customer behaviour, warns a brand expert. “Everybody is using big data to make business development decisions. This has resulted in many businesses making similar decisions as they reach similar conclusions using the same data. But in fact, they may make the wrong bets if they forget to also look at the small data analysis of... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1946166/forget-big-data-look-small-data-better-business-decisions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1946166/forget-big-data-look-small-data-better-business-decisions?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 May 2016 07:30:15 +0000 Asian governments need to invest more in innovative industry and green technology, according to a keynote address Tuesday by South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye to kickoff the 7th Asian Leadership Conference in Seoul. “We have seen a lot of new technology start-ups in software, big data companies and other innovative companies setting up. The number of venture capital companies have been growing every year,” Park said. She added that venture capital investment in South Korea last year was the... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/1946153/south-koreas-park-urges-global-leaders-embrace-innovation-green-technology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/article/1946153/south-koreas-park-urges-global-leaders-embrace-innovation-green-technology?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 May 2016 06:21:27 +0000 China and North Korea are ­communicating only at the “working level”, a former top ­Chinese diplomat has revealed. “Now there is no meeting ­between the highest levels. But at other levels, we are still communicating,” Dai Bingguo said on the sidelines of the Asian Leadership Conference in Seoul on Tuesday. Dai, a former state councillor, told the South China Morning Post, a media partner at the ­annual conference, that “other levels” meant the working level. We oppose war; the peninsula is in... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1946101/its-hard-predict-future-china-north-korea-talks-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1946101/its-hard-predict-future-china-north-korea-talks-now?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 May 2016 03:40:46 +0000