Leadership in the age of pandemics

We need to stop the blame game but earn, adapt and act fastLeadership in the age of pandemics

This time is seriously different

THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Covid-19 a global pandemic. Wall Street has marked the largest drop since the October 1987 stock market crash. Gold is breaking record highs, oil prices are back to 19-year lows and bond yields are getting close to zero even in the United States.

Trust in the 21st Century

WITH the coronavirus outbreak spreading faster around the world than within China, there is a feeling globally that “things are seriously not okay”.

Does Covid-19 mean the social contract is broken?

Solving wicked problems with tweets and blogs

If you think that the world is being thrown into chaos by tweets, look instead into blogs that are truly the thinking behind the policymaker’s mind.

Will there be clarity of Vision 2020?: ANN columnist

HONG KONG (The Straits Times/ANN): The Asia News Network columnist Andrew Sheng comments on how far Malaysia has come in achieving its Vision 20-20 target, and how the rest of the world fares as we enter the third decade of the 21st century.

Vision without execution is delusion

The ideal eyesight is 20-20 vision when we can see everything clearly and know exactly where to go.

Peering into 2020

AS 2019 fades, the world’s financial markets are reaching record high, celebrating in truth a sigh of relief that Britain has final closure on Brexit through a thumping victory for Boris Johnson; and the non-announcement of a US-China trade truce that seems to postpone more intractable problems to the future. AS 2019 fades, the world’s financial markets are reaching record high, celebrating in truth a sigh of relief that Britain has final closure on Brexit through a thumping victory for Boris Johnson; and the non-announcement of a US-China trade truce that seems to postpone more intractable problems to the future.

The depressive nature of negative interest rates

Negative interest rates don’t make sense. Yet, nearly US$16 trillion of the world’s bond market yields are in negative interest rate territory. Can this continue forever?

Remembering the fall of the Berlin Wall

TODAY marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, when Communist East Germany decided to allow its people to move freely to West Berlin.