Opinion & Features

THINKING ALOUD

If crashes are rising in Malaysia, fix the roads – not the courts

While most such accidents are attributed to human error, poor infrastructure makes mistakes more likely

Many airlines have reacted to the doubling of jet fuel prices by cutting flights, but the snag is that the peculiar rigidities of oil mean that this will do little to bring prices back down to earth.

Why flying less won’t do much to ease the oil crisis

Crude demand weakens when the price rises of not only jet fuel, but also other product prices

European confidence in American leadership is at an all-time low; more people in Spain, Italy, France and Germany now regard the US as a threat than a “close ally”, a poll shows.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Are Europe and America headed for divorce?

For now, the two sides remain locked in an unhappy marriage

With interest rates possibly being elevated due to higher energy prices driving rising inflation, improving Suntec Reit’s unit price might be challenging.
HOCK LOCK SIEW

Will Hongkong Land seek to control the manager of Suntec Reit or the trust’s most prized properties?

Investing in a Reit where another group is the sponsor may be hardly optimal for the property giant

Even the mere prospect of a leak will put Anthropic under unrelenting scrutiny over its fitness as a custodian of a system as powerful as Mythos, says the writer.
THINKING ALOUD

Anthropic risks shooting itself in the foot with Mythos

The AI firm might have bitten off more code than it can chew

The emergence of frontier artificial intelligence models that can identifiy vulnerabilities in code will likely increase the volume and speed of attacks on IT  infrastructure.

Will the step forward in frontier AI mean a step backward in cybersecurity?

Organisation leaders must rethink their approach to managing IT risks

US President Donald Trump (left) with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan in October 2025. The most plausible outcome of US-China rivalry is not a clean transition from one hegemon to another, but a fragmented order.
NEW GLOBAL ORDER

US-China rivalry and the Kindleberger Trap: Why inaction – not escalation – is the biggest risk

In periods of transition, the greatest threat may not be the clash of powers but the absence of leadership

US President Donald Trump has oscillated between declaring total victory and threatening to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age”.

The art of no deal: Why the US-Iran stalemate may be structural

Both sides say they want an agreement, and neither is creating the conditions for one

US President Donald Trump (right) says “everything” will be on the agenda with King Charles, even though the king is not an elected politician.

Big business agenda for King Charles’ US visit

The diplomatic mission will be one of the most important tours by a UK monarch in seven decades

Trump (centre), flanked by Todd Blanche, acting US attorney-general (left) and Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, meeting the media at the White House after the shooting incident on Apr 25.

Trump and the recurring assassin

Shooting on Apr 25 is third assassination attempt on the US president in under two years