Peter A Coclanis

AS MOST readers know by now, on May 8 oil giant Shell announced that it had agreed to sell its Bukom refinery in Singapore to a joint venture of Indonesian chemicals firm Chandra Asri and global tradi...

The big population story for the rest of the century is predicted to be the rise in relative importance of Africa, alongside the relative declines of Asia and the West.

Despite its impressive overall economic profile, the republic’s labour productivity, though improving over time, continues to disappoint. What gives?

THERE has been a lot of talk of late about the possibility of a new international grouping known informally as the BRICs-plus, with Indonesia often being mentioned as a member. Such talk got me thinki...