Saturday Soapbox

SATURDAY SOAPBOX

I say: Yes to name-calling

AS PHYSICAL calling cards take on a digital afterlife, the tactile texture of old-style name cards invokes memories of a receding age in which social and professional identity was established initiall...

The love-hate relationship with Hong Kong
SATURDAY SOAPBOX

The love-hate relationship with Hong Kong

With some intertwined annoyances and pleasures gone, the city has lost a certain kick

The world will be as one

The world will be as one

Not quite the way Lennon envisioned in Imagine, but an invisible virus has swiftly put everyone on the same page to protect a single planet. It will refine globalism and make us accountable

A failed bid to keep cult eateries from Michelin

A failed bid to keep cult eateries from Michelin

AN emergency session of the Committee had been convened.

For D, who died

For D, who died

The morning after you died, I went kickboxing. Through the 23 minutes, the mirrors bounced off attempts to breathe. A breath is life, and I thought I should keep at it. The business of life.

An investor gripes about the Annual Giam-siap Meeting

An investor gripes about the Annual Giam-siap Meeting

It doesn't cost that much to cater to your investors - be it in running webcasts, providing transcripts or hard-copy annual reports

No monkey business, please

No monkey business, please

THEY'VE been popularised as emojis with the advent of smartphones, but where do the three wise monkeys - who exhort us to see no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil - come from?

North Pole - the next hot real estate buy?

North Pole - the next hot real estate buy?

I RECEIVED an e-mail yesterday telling me why I should invest in a property in the North Pole.