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SINGAPORE (June 17): A reader of The Edge Singapore who owns shares in Challenger Technologies asked me last week if I was going to write anything more about the company’s proposal to delist from the Singapore Exchange. I didn’t think I was. But after

SINGAPORE (April 1): The trial of John Soh Chee Wen and Quah Su-Ling kicked off on March 25 on an acrimonious note, with their lawyers complaining about procedural unfairness. Among other things, they seemed outraged that prosecutors gave them four statem

SINGAPORE (April 1): Two developments make it imperative that we rethink how governments intervene in the economy. The first is the popular backlash against the market economy around the world: This has reached a point where major countries will make big

SINGAPORE (Apr 1): The UK is teetering towards Brexit. No one knows what will happen over the next few months. Yet around one-third of British voters support a “no-deal” departure from the European Union (EU), which risks inflicting an economic disast

SINGAPORE (Mar 18): The Chinese economy continues to be a concern to the rest of the world. The information we are getting paints a picture of economic frailty and financial fragility — and that policymakers’ efforts since last year to turn the econom

SINGAPORE (Mar 18): It started the day after I returned to Penang from Singapore, a visit filled with the usual shopping and dining, as well as catching up with friends and relatives. An earache prompted a quick visit to the GP, but it didn’t mar the fa

SINGAPORE (Mar 4): With the US Federal Reserve getting cautious on raising rates and China pump-priming its economy, many of the big risks confronting Asia appear to have been contained.

SINGAPORE (Mar 4): The post-war economic success of liberal democracies was not simply the result of letting markets flourish. The US and European countries also embedded markets in a structure that allowed people to take the fullest advantage of them. Th

SINGAPORE (Mar 4): The Merdeka Generation, born from 1950 to 1959, lived through Singapore’s tumultuous early years, and gained a perspective of Singapore’s place in the world that many younger people probably lack. And, like the Pioneer Generation, c

SINGAPORE (Feb 25): As Chinese and US trade negotiators meet in Washington to try to forge an accord on trade, observers are largely focused on the countries’ economic disagreements, such as over China’s subsidies to its state-owned enterprises. But t