SATURDAY SOAPBOX
I REMEMBER vividly a friend passing a comment that I had probably made a bad decision in joining the Rotary Movement some 18 years ago. It was shortly after I had started my entrepreneurship journey...
COMMENTARY: SINGAPORE PROPERTY
IS the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Wednesday announcement to raise the minimum average unit size for non-landed housing developments Outside the Central Area (OCA) - the second part to the...
WHAT happens to the companies that allow our personal data to be stolen? In most cases, nothing. Sometimes, there is a short-lived flurry of bad publicity, a brief dip in stock prices, a class-action...
THE BOTTOM LINE
JUST when it seemed safe not to worry about the next financial crisis, up pops Italy. In Italy, lavish plans may propel next crisis, warned The New York Times. Or, Italy's budget rattles...
EDITORIAL
OVER the past decade global warming and the impact of climate change have increasingly occupied governments, policymakers and the investment community.
MANY businesses today are scrutinising their operations to figure out how to join the digital transformation revolution, not least here in Singapore, with its Smart Nation initiative. According to a...
COMMENTARY
THE signing of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (EUSFTA) - expected to be announced later today - is a panacea for Singapore, and for Asean as a region.
COMMENTARY
HYPERLOOP, autonomous vehicles and ultra long-haul flights are heralded as the future of travel, but rail is quietly undergoing something of a renaissance in Asia-Pacific too.
OPINION
THE recent news of public hospitals engaging agents who bring in foreign patients for a fee came as a shock to many Singaporeans. We applaud the Ministry of Health (MOH) for its directions to public...
HOCK LOCK SIEW
AS much as bankers chirp about the stunning revival of new deals in the Singapore dollar bond market in the second half of the year, the reality for issuers looking to sell riskier corporate debt has...
COMMENTARY
ONE'S a bear and a half while the other's more of a cub...
