It was reported in Apr this year that German drugmaker Bayer sold 3.6 per cent stake to Singapore’s Temasek Holdings for 3 billion euros at 96.77 euros per share. The money is used as part of Bayer’s plan in a $62.5 billion takeover of seed maker Monsanto. Together with its existing holding in Bayer, Temasek would own about 4 percent …

In a controversial event one year ago (14 Sep), Halimah Yacob was sworn in as the 8th President of the Republic of Singapore after being elected into office in a walkover election where two of her opponents were disqualified due to changes of the private candidate’s criteria passed months before the PE2017. As Head of State, her key roles would include the following: …

Education Minister Ong Ye Kung said at the opening of the Singapore Summit that a small state like Singapore has to take the long-term view when it comes to crafting its policies, in order to survive. He went on to say that this is despite a worldwide trend of politics and governance becoming more short-term and populist. In short, he is saying …

Recently, there have been online controversies over allowing so-called “social enterprise” operators by the government to manage the newly built public hawker centres. Many netizens have pointed out that many of these so-called “social enterprise” operators are nothing more than profit-oriented food court corporations operating under the guise of “fulfilling social responsibility”. Indeed, many of these “social enterprise” operators are …

President-elect of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (People’s Justice Party) Anwar Ibrahim has expressed his view that it is crucial for Malaysia and Singapore to “work together” on contentious issues such as the water agreement and the KL-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project, in contrast to current Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s approach which is often interpreted as adversarial. In an interview …