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Interview With Successful Alumni: Steve Tan

What are you doing now and how you got? What did you do as soon as you graduated?

I am the Assistant Front Office Manager, The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore after completing LIVE Leader Program (Mgt Training) in Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia upon completion of Le Cordon Bleu Bachelor of Business (International Hotel and Resort Management) in 2007. After my LIVE Program, I joined The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore as Duty Manager in July 2009 and was promoted to AFOM with in a year.

What do you want to do in the short term?

Gaining exposure on hotel openings and accumulate industrial experience which...

Australia’s mining tax and the CIA conspiracy

The mining tax has dominated Australia’s political landscape this week. The Senate passed the mining tax on Monday imposing a 30 percent tax on super profits generated by mining companies from coal and iron ore. The tax revenue will be used to elevate income and pension funds of the less well-off Australians and to cut tax on small...

Environmentalists await results of UN Great Barrier Reef study

Green activists are expecting to hear the results of a study of the Great Barrier Reef conducted by the joint mission of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre (WHC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The experts visited Australia from March 4-14 to examine the park’s environmental conditions, including investigate alleged manmade threats posed by...

In pictures: The Queen comes to Brisbane

I joined the Brisbane throngs today to go and see the Queen at Southbank. And I have to say it was worth it and I rather think the Queen might have thought so too. Brisbane turned on its best spring weather for the royal visit – warm, vibrant sunshine with the bougainvillea trees and jacaranda...

10 photographs celebrating World Tourism Day

Today, September 27, is World Tourism Day. If you’re wondering what that it is exactly then read this blurb from the official site: This year’s theme is a celebration of tourism’s role in linking together the cultures of the world through travel. With millions of people travelling the world each year, never before have so...