Business leaders can play a bigger role in fostering social cohesion: DPM Heng
He cites gender equality, environmental sustainability as issues companies should focus on
Singapore
BUSINESS leaders need to do more than ever before to help tackle the three great divides that undermine social cohesion, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Friday.
These are: the growing inequality as a result of globalisation and advances in technology, the burgeoning divide among different generations, especially as societies age, and the deepening political polarisation that is made worse by social media.
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