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Listed among this year’s Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, Oh Chu Xian started Magorium to recycle plastic waste, which is then added to bitumen to subsequently produce asphalt for road construction. Called NewBitumen, this innovation isn’t just kinder to our environment but also produces road surfaces that last longer. Oh, a business management graduate from Singapore Management University, hopes to scale her company’s technology into other parts of Southeast Asia to help alleviate the problem of plastic waste.
Massive effort to ensure safety made possible with use of mobile apps, wearable devices.
Dalton Prescott, who attended a previous iteration of the programme while he was a student at the School of Science and Technology, has plans to have an app he developed launched on the App Store. The 17-year-old’s app, called Master, combines psychology and machine learning to make learning more effective for students.
As companies resume limited operations in Singapore’s phased lifting of the circuit breaker, careful tracking of their staff’s attendance, temperatures and health declarations will be a top priority for employers, to ensure they will be allowed to stay open.