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Heng Swee Keat

The writer is chairman of the National Research Foundation. He was Singapore’s deputy prime minister between 2019 and 2025, and coordinating minister for economic policies from 2020 to 2024.

Former DPM Heng Swee Keat says that in recording what went wrong, the lessons learnt and how institutions responded, business journalism becomes a form of public memory.
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