Raffles Conversation

Tech Nation chairperson Stephen Kelly sees the maturity of Singapore and South-east Asian markets as a big draw for UK tech founders amid what he says could be a golden era for technology in both regi...

Charles Li, ex-chief of HKEX turned digital entrepreneur, tells about the enduring allure of Hong Kong as a financial hub. The city remains, he says, the "most Chinese" market for international money,...

Businessman Koh Choon Hui, who recently stepped down as chairman of Singapore Pools, shares stories from the world of legalised punting, and looks back on decades of involvement in charity and social ...

Highly feted international lawyer Cheng Tai-Heng, global co-head of international arbitration and trade at Sidley Austin LLP, tells why the time is ripe for him to further his work in Singapore.

Andrew Rose, dean of NUS Business School, talks about the business of running a business school, and why students should be more intellectually adventurous.

Sagi Karni, Israel's ambassador to Singapore, talks about his startup nation, its risk-taking culture, and the agritech partnerships between the two countries.

Jakob Angele, CEO of foodpanda APAC, is on a mission to see that every household uses its app at least once every single day.

Barbara Plinkert, the EU's Ambassador to Singapore, is a staunch European and also a sinologist whose first big trip after high school in Germany was to China. The EU, she says, is an ongoing project.

"How can we help" is what Ben King, the IT behemoth's Singapore operations head, has been focused on since the outbreak of the global pandemic.