Unlocking potential: The power of emotional inclusion in business

It is no longer a cultural aspiration or a nice to have; it is a strategic necessity

Age-related discrimination remains the most commonly cited form of employment discrimination among older jobseekers in Singapore, and the second-most cited among all employees.

Singapore firms who don’t tap their older workers are missing out on a goldmine

Professionals aged 65 and up have the knowledge and experience that could shape whether a company scales, survives or stalls

Raising rates in response to the Iranian war is likely to produce instability and deflation.

Central banks face higher inflation

Two important problems may lead them to opt for a more inflationary solution to the effects of the Iran war

Since 1998, WTO members have agreed not to impose customs duties on electronic transmissions – the bits and bytes of the digital economy.

WTO Ministerial Conference 14: A tipping point for Singapore’s digital economy

The business community is looking for concrete progress on two digital trade issues – to keep innovation thriving

While Norges Bank Investment Management CEO Nicolai Tangen is a “huge” believer in the power of AI, he worries about rampant corporate valuations and the uncertain profit outlook for it.

Norway’s US$2 trillion wealth fund is sounding a warning on Iran

It is now planning for all sorts of potentially bleak scenarios as global economic resilience is tested

In more dynamic talent markets, domain-switching is not merely tolerated; it is treated as evidence of range and adaptive capacity.
STEWARDSHIP MATTERS

The ‘CV trap’: Why Singapore must hire for potential, not pedigree

If the city-state is to turn AI into a national advantage, companies must rethink how they evaluate talent

The concern is that graduates will lack the judgement to know when AI has supplied knowledge badly.

AI may reshape the labour market, but the deeper disruption is in education

We must relook how students are being formed, not just how workers are being retrained

A potential inflow of wealth from the Middle East could help Singapore's banking trio as interest rates soften and net interest margins inevitably face compression this year.
HOCK LOCK SIEW

DBS, OCBC, UOB could benefit as the Middle East’s ultra-rich relook where to park their billions

The three local lenders have all spent years expanding their private banking capabilities to capture a growth in global wealth flows

Three of the most successful Chinese firms – Temu, Shein and TikTok – have tried to distance themselves from their roots. None has succeeded, the writer notes.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Why firms are pivoting from ‘China-shedding’ to ‘China-maxxing’

The approach of hiding one’s ties to Beijing has run its course for the bigger players

Most of US President Donald Trump’s temporal nihilism operates on longer, less-legible timelines.

Trump is spending tomorrow’s security today

Neither incompetence nor impulsiveness explains the US president’s decision to start a war