The study was authored by researchers at Emory University, Rutgers, the University of Washington and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

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Farish Noor, a professor at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, argues that in many instances, these conflicts are caused by old customs butting up against arbitrary modern national boundaries.

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Meanwhile, scientists from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have invented a new toilet that turns human waste into electricity while reducing the amount of water needed for flushing by up to 90 percent.

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"If the buyer is a marginal member of a royal family or a businessman it can go either way but tends to turn out less well, " says Mr Dorsey, a senior fellow at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University.

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"There are still negative stereotypes about hawkers, for example that they are less well-educated, " says Hazel Tan, a Nanyang Technological University student who is behind Youth Hawkerprise, a campaign to encourage young people to join the hawker trade.

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"This implies that the main purpose of establishing CIC...still has a long way to go, " said Friedrich Wu, an adjunct associate professor at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore who has written several research papers on the fund.

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For advice, I asked members of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, one of the most influential global networks of business owners, social entrepreneurs and industry experts created by KPMG and the EM Lyon Business School, along with Nanyang Technological University, Zhejiang University, Only Lyon and Action Community for Entrepreneurship for in 2008.

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