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Bilahari Kausikan (Photo: FMT) Singaporeans should take umbrage to Bilahari Kausikan's speech as Singapore's ambassador at large at a policy forum in Tokyo. If he was speaking in his personal capacity it was bad enough. But he was speaking as Singapore's official representative and that was a disaster . Singapore officials should... 

Spot gold price has gone wild in May, turning bearish from month beginning peak closer to US $1,294 per ounce level, after rising from its April 2016 low of US$1,228 per oz. It is currently hovering slightly above US$1,250. A schism seems to evolve between what spot gold seems to be charting ahead at this moment and what avid... 

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...