Organised for the third year by the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, 14 mid-career journalists and editors from 11 Asian countries participated in a three-month programme to sharpen their professional skills and deepen their knowledge.
Two STEP alumni led 34 youths from Temasek Polytechnic, STEP’s local partner, on a two-week outreach project to Laos where they coached local youth in English and computer literacy, and worked with the Laos Youth Union to help set up a library for youth in Vientiane.
One hundred Department of Transportation and Communication officials are being trained to enhance legal and regulatory frameworks for planning, procuring and implementing private-public partnership infrastructure development projects.
This builds on the success of similar TF-sponsored programmes in Kunming in China and Indonesia.