TR EMERITUS

After a good GE 2015, when PAP had refrained from personal attacks by and large, now their fangs are out and their serpentine tongues spewing slime and mud. They have shied away from the National agenda for a perfectly good reason, they are losing the economy and the future. So in default and as “The dog returns to its own... 

Global trade depends on shipping that carries 90% of international trade. And a healthy part of it goes through Singapore. But with the new silk road linking China with Europe through Central and Western Asia, and with the Arctic ice melting and possibly creating a new ship route, Singapore as a shipping hub is under threat... 

“THE Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil.” A much repeated phrase since 2003 when it was predicted by Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a Saudi Arabian who was his country's oil minister more than 40 years ago. If the notion of the Absurd by Albert Camus is Globalization,...