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What did COP26 achieve?

This column, starting from The Edge Singapore’s 1,000th edition, intends to offer a different perspective from the usual voices

The quality of the board of directors transcends mere compliance with the Listing Rules

While we are all focused on the immediate issues of the rate of new infections and deaths and so on, are there other factors that we might be under-estimating which could hit markets or the economy?

SINGAPORE (Sept 20): It wasn’t long after The Edge Singapore was launched that I began measuring time not in days or months but in terms of the publication’s issue numbers, a consequence of constantly thinking about stories and commentaries that were

SINGAPORE (June 17): In March last year, music streaming giant Spotify launched an unusual direct public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, as opposed to the IPO route most companies take. Messaging software firm Slack will take a page out of Spotif

SINGAPORE (Oct 1): The first issue of The Edge Singapore was published on March 4, 2002. For most of the last 16½ years, we have dedicated ourselves to chronicling the markets’ twists and turns, tracking the performance of public-listed companies and p

SINGAPORE (May 21): It was perhaps poignant, and entirely coincidental, that as we covered the Malaysian opposition’s momentous sweep to victory in the previous week’s issue, it was also Ben Paul’s final stint as editor of these pages. Now, as the c

SINGAPORE (May 14): Being editor of The Edge Singapore has been one of the best experiences of my life. And, like all good things, it has come to an end. After closing this issue, I will hand over the baton to Michelle Teo, currently one of our two associ

(May 26): Although they are from perfect, labels play an important role in providing shorthand signals for bigger phenomena. This, in turn, influences how people think about the past, present and future, and which actions would be warranted and why.