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- ↑ Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine "Writers.net" Web site, Web page titled "Myanmar on My Mind", accessed October 11, 2006
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H. C. Matthew Sim, a resident of Singapore, is the author of two business books and the coauthor of another.
He received his PhD from the University of South Australia, his B.E. (First Class Honours) from the University of Queensland, and his MBA from the National University of Singapore. [1] Sim has a CDAF from Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, United Kingdom. he is a full member of Singapore Institute of Directors.
Sim was a diplomat in the Singapore Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly named Burma), and Centre Director of Singapore Trade Development Board Office in Yangon. He worked for Singapore Trade Development Board (TDB), TDB Holdings Ltd (an investment holding GLC), and Singapore TDB Consulting. He is now a lecturer in a leading education institution, Temasek Polytechnic.
His books include: [1]
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