TR EMERITUS

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,... 

I will just briefly touch on semiotics. Semiotics is called the study of symbols. It is about symbols in culture. The ancestral tablet for the traditional Chinese is a symbol with significant meanings. It is a sign of respect for your ancestors, it is a belief in the after-life, it is a kind of religiosity when incense is burned...