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Quiet malls, full containers: The two-speed reality of the Chinese economy

The China that disappointed investors may not be the same one that is growing

Above: Singapore Exchange at Raffles Place. Asia’s superior growth dynamics, attractive valuations and resilient policy frameworks are making EMs, and Asian EMs in particular, the standout opportunity for 2026.
Opinion & Features
RETHINKING MATTERS

Local hero: Asia’s risk markets

Conditions are finally ripe for Asian equity markets to outperform those in developed peers in 2026

Insurance underwrites risks that unfold over decades, often across a policyholder’s working life and into retirement.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Singapore’s insurance sector needs strategic consolidation, not perpetual flux

Potential sale of HSBC Life in the Republic highlights challenges posed by a fragmented market to both insurers and consumers

The sheer volume of debt involved is one risk. It raises the spectre of financial bubbles, especially if the AI-driven productivity miracle fails to monetise as expected.
Opinion & Features

The twin ‘factories’ spurring global growth are both at risk

Sustainability of the AI-driven investment boom and China’s export machine is uncertain

If your first instinct for every task is to ask an AI tool to give you a starting point, you are skipping the most vital part of thinking.
Opinion & Features

Is AI hurting your ability to think?

Here’s how to reclaim your brain

Learning a new language will require more than memorising new words and expressions; mastery comes when you wrap your head around patterns.
Opinion & Features

This one novel word speaks volumes about how an entire language works

Meet X也 – pronounced as ‘ta’

Public funds are not enough to meet the adaptation financing needs of Asia-Pacific, and that private finance needs to plug the gap.
ESG Insights
ESG INSIGHTS

Issue 179: No longer the poorer cousin of mitigation?

This week in ESG: Growing momentum in adaptation financing

As global tensions rise, Greenland has become a geopolitical pressure gauge, revealing how the old international legal order is beginning to fray.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Trump’s Greenland grab is part of a new space race

The old Thule Airbase on the island is a strategic gateway to orbit and a means to exert political and military power from above

The standard shipping container, a steel box 12.2 m by 2.4 m in size, was invented by Malcolm McLean, who turbocharged its global adoption by letting its design be distributed patent-free.
Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

Tariffs aren’t the biggest drag on global trade. Standards are

Product-safety and environmental rules have multiplied like an invasive species

After a quiet removal from Chinese app stores, "Are You Dead" has been launched internationally as "Demumu".
Opinion & Features

Forget DeepSeek, dying alone is China’s latest tech obsession

The new breakout app that asks ‘Are you dead?’ says much about society

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