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Environmental, Social and Governance
Board priorities: Create clarity in ambiguity
Directors need to deepen their engagement and guide companies to build resilience
February 21, 2024
Environmental, Social and Governance
Unlocking opportunities in Asean while managing governance and compliance risks
As investors seek growth potential of the region, they also need to be mindful of the risks of investing in the region
February 01, 2024
Environmental, Social and Governance
Balancing performance and ethics — the key to numbers you can count on
Hyflux, Noble Group, and SPH make us ponder if ethics and governance take a back seat when businesses do poorly
July 26, 2023
Shareholder activism
Giving Mark Zuckerberg unquestioned power was asking for trouble
Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone rogue, but I find myself unsympathetic to shareholders’ plight.
November 02, 2022
CXOs
Embedding tech to manage a business' risk environment
Risk management needs to shift from protective and reactive to proactive and strategic. Here’s how tech can help.
May 31, 2022
CXOs
Human progress and the innovation game
Find out how innovative firms are advancing prosperity and solving global challenges, and why governance is key to sustaining this
February 16, 2022
Covid-19
A look at different governance systems during the Covid-19 pandemic
Countries in East Asia tended to do a better job of controlling the pandemic than did many countries in the Americas and Europe.
July 02, 2021
Keep the geeks in charge of the internet
By enabling people and businesses to remain connected while under lockdown, the Internet has helped to prevent the global economy from collapsing entirely.
July 17, 2020
Tong's Portfolio
There is also light at the end of the tunnel
The world is interconnected and hence, interdependent. The coronavirus is a global problem that requires global cooperation to get it under control.
April 03, 2020
China Focus
The lasting tragedy of Tiananmen Square
SINGAPORE (June 10): China’s progress towards an open society ended when the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) slaughtered at least hundreds, if not thousands, of peaceful demonstrators in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 3 to 4, 1989. The
June 07, 2019