The Business Times
business-time-50

Columns

Opinion & Features
HOCK LOCK SIEW

CICT, CapitaLand should snap up Bugis Junction Towers

If Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron want the world to understand this is not a cartel story, they must stop speaking as if price falls from the sky.
Opinion & Features

Memory makers, especially the Korean ones, must learn to speak up

Mark Carney, Canada's prime minister, during the World Economic Forum’s 2026 meeting in Davos, Switzerland, described a “rupture” in the world order and called on middle powers to “act together”.
Opinion & Features

How the EU can lead the rest of the West

Singapore’s core inflation held steady at 1.4% in May, below economists’ median expectation of 1.6%.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

MAS’ next decision may say more about growth than costs

The era in which China could dominate the global infrastructure agenda with limited competition is coming to an end.
Opinion & Features
NEW GLOBAL ORDER

Why China’s Belt and Road Initiative will remain relevant despite growing competition

Governments subsidise carbon-based energy to make it artificially cheap, which encourages us to use more polluting energy and deters us from making the switch to cleaner alternatives.
Opinion & Features

Who’s really keeping fossil fuels alive? Taxpayers globally

Almost 800 people guessed the weight of an ox at a country fair in 1906. Individually, the results were mediocre, but collectively, the median estimate was within 0.8% of the true weight.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

How crowds become stupider

Without access to foreign workers and global talent, growth will slow, innovation will weaken and Singapore’s position as a business hub will come under pressure.
Opinion & Features

Why Singapore’s workforce needs both openness and a strong local core

Are new condo units increasingly unaffordable?
Opinion & Features
THE LEVEL GROUND

Does progressive payment for new projects fuel high new condo prices?

Building should sit at the centre of Singapore’s AI strategy, because it is the way capability is formed.
Opinion & Features

Knowing how to use AI is no longer enough. We need to build with it

Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
View More