Singapore companies, highly exposed to slowing global trade and a lackluster commodity market, face a financing scramble in 2017, as more than US$12 billion of their bonds falls due and banks grow wary of lending to the resources sector. That…
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At the payment counter… Me: Do you have a gift wrapping service? Cashier stares blankly at me Me: Do you have a gift wrapping service? (gestures wrapping an item) Cashier looks lost: Master or Nets? Me: Nets. Wrap present, where?…
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Public memory is short. That’s what the PAP is counting on to get through the economic difficulties that we’re rapidly sinking into. But forgetting the past is what will surely prolong our troubles. Our only hope of recovery is to…
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The Court of Three Judges has decided that lawyer M Ravi who was ordered to stop practising in Feb 2015 should be prohibited from applying for a practicing certificate for a period of 2 years. In its judgment released today (27 Oct), the…
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It’s funny how some people are so bent on using anecdotes -parliamentarians especially love to talk about their personal experiences – to display the truly multi-racial nature of Singapore, and to prove racism doesn’t exist. ‘My son didn’t want to…
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