Updates

Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship in Crisis Time

    Rebuilding the economy through inclusive business and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was the focus of a web forum organized by MBC and the Philippine Development Foundation (PhilDev) with the support of Australian Aid (AusAid) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

    Click For Care: The Telemedicine Solution

      Telemedicine allows medical consultations to resume while addressing patients’ — and doctors’ — COVID-19 related safety concerns. In a webinar hosted by MBC, in partnership with the Philippines-Malaysia Business Council and Malaysian Embassy, Kuala Lumpur-based DoctorOnCall, shared the barriers, benefits, and best practices of telemedicine.

      The State of Global Democracy with Larry Diamond

        25 August 2020 – The pandemic struck the world at a time when global democracy is in peril. In the MBC-KAS webinar “The State of Global Democracy”, best-selling author and leading scholar Larry Diamond gives an overview of the “democratic recession”.

        Asian Democracy in Pandemic Times

          18 August – Bestselling authors Levitsky and Ziblatt say that democracies die slowly — norms and institutions are broken down, bit by bit over time. But under a global pandemic, we face a rapid drive towards authoritarianism.