Can AI unlock productivity and growth?
If you watched Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's remarkable presentation at Taipei Computex last month, you would be convinced that AI has ushered in a new Industrial Revolution, in which accelerated computing with the latest AI chips unleashed the power of doing everything faster, more efficiently, and with less energy
18 June 2024, 06:41 AM
Can tech giants solve climate change and social inequality?
The Great Tech story implies that the world will see a smaller group of winners who bigger clout than the rest.
14 April 2024, 13:00 PM
A global state of disunion
In other words, the world is in disunion not just from wealth and income disparities, but through the widening digital and knowledge application gaps.
27 March 2024, 06:41 AM
To be treated as equals to the West, the Global South must decolonise its minds
In an over-crowded planet, the system is inherently unstable when we attempt to resolve differences via conflict and war
17 January 2024, 01:00 AM
Has the West lost the Rest?
The images and news coming out of Gaza are so horrific that I cannot think of anything hopeful or constructive that can come of this cataclysm.
4 November 2023, 01:00 AM
How stable is the global financial system really?
The global financial system looks stable, because central banks have shifted more and more debt onto their books.
21 October 2023, 10:00 AM
Are we apes fighting over a burning planet?
The profit model of business has ignored climate change for too long.
10 October 2023, 09:14 AM
Will Singapore or Hong Kong finance the South’s next transition?
The global financial system is in a real bind.
26 September 2023, 12:03 PM
Things Fall Apart
The high tide of financial markets is now in retreat, and murder in the oriental consulate unfolds in internet speed. Everywhere, the centre in politics and creed cannot hold, whilst polarisation is increasing by the day.
27 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Competition and conflict in knowledge economies
It's not a trade war, stupid! In today's world where everything hinges on technology, competition and conflict between states is really about who gets to Industry 4.0 faster than the others.
19 August 2018, 18:00 PM
Bubbling through 2018
As we begin a new year, the celebratory mood of 2017, which saw US tax cuts and record stock market prices, is set to spill over into 2018.
1 January 2018, 18:00 PM
Re-thinking development
As the Commission for Global Economic Transformation, co-chaired by Nobel Laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, formed early last month, gets down to work, we should reflect whether emerging markets are able to formulate such a new development model.
12 December 2017, 18:00 PM
ASEAN's march into the digital economy
ASEAN was born literally out of the ashes of colonialism and the Vietnam War. It started as a security pact, but gradually evolved into an economic and financial community that is not yet a cultural common, mainly because of its celebrated diversity.
25 August 2017, 18:00 PM
The long hot summer of the Arab Spring
What has happened in Charlottesville showed that temperatures and tempers are flaring in this long hot summer. Is the Arab Spring spreading worldwide due to climate warming?
21 August 2017, 18:00 PM
OPINION: From FinTech to EdTech
Last week my elder brother made a remark that shook my understanding of education, “I learn today more from YouTube than I have learnt all my life”. In truth, we are bombarded by so much information that we have knowledge indigestion.
6 August 2017, 05:04 AM
The biggest disruption is in jobs
The 20th Anniver-sary of the Asian financial crisis and 10th Anniversary of the North Atlantic financial crisis brought back a sense of déjà vu—we have been here before.
8 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Asia's search for cultural-intellectual rejuvenation
If Asian economies, especially cities, do not begin the search for modernity and moderate values and beliefs in earnest, they will be overwhelmed by the forces of extremism, domestic or imported.
7 April 2017, 18:00 PM
2017: Time for Asia to take risks
A century ago, the 1917 Russian Revolution marked the end of the First World War, that changed the 20th century into a new divide between different ideologies.
18 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Why Economics won't help us today
As all of us watched the US Presidential debates and await the outcome of the elections in early November with bated breath, I was struck by how much the world is moving on different planes.
31 October 2016, 18:00 PM