Meet someone who married his love for outdoor adventure with making a difference to people’s lives.

By Farhan Shah

Three years ago, Chua Wei Zhen was an Engineering student with Nanyang Technological University (NTU) learning about the intricacies of materials and how they could be used in everyday life.

Now, the 26-year-old is clambering across rocks and canoeing along the sea while inculcating values and life lessons in the charges assigned to him. Wei Zhen is an Instructor with Outward Bound Singapore (OBS), an organisation dedicated in helping youths become active citizens inspired to serve the community via outdoor education and adventure learning programmes.

By Winifred Tan

“The logistics industry is both competitive and collaborative,” says Associate Professor Tan Yan Weng, Head of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Programme at SIM University.

“In any industry, competition is the driving force behind creative innovation. Yet the logistics industry also thrives on collaborative relationships along the supply chain – from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer and so on – to get products moving from the point of production to consumption.”