TR EMERITUS

The takeover of the Australian Securities Exchange by its Singaporean counterpart would have to be one of the most awful ideas to be forced down our throats in yonks. The Lee family, which runs Singapore's faux democracy, has proved one of the region's most consummate oligarchs. The Singapore government's paws are over every... 

For one-party rule, the city-state has few peers, writes Eric Ellis. IN THE fomenting debate over Singapore Inc's bid to buy a most vital pillar of Australia's economic architecture, there's something deliciously apt that the decisive call on the Australian Stock Exchange will probably be made by Canberra's independent members... 

Leave it to tiny Singapore to tell us where the global economy is heading. We used to look to the gargantuan US economy for guidance on financial trends. After Wall Street’s collapse, we turned to the G-20. More insight might be gleaned looking at an island nation with five million people. The idea that a place with no natural...