The new year began with any number of political factors that can impact business. But perhaps the most immediate is China, exiting from its Zero Covid policy. Many had urged this change. Like its Great Wall, China’s Zero Covid policy attracted attention with its dimensions. Border...
Commentary: Implications for ASEAN’s Transition to Clean Energy by Wong Hsu-sheng The war in Ukraine and rising cost of inflation have dominated the main news cycles this year, finally taking over from three years of COVID-19 and multiple lockdowns that seemed at some points to have no...
11 years since Timor-Leste applied to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, it is still waiting. What is preventing Southeast Asia's newest country from joining the regional group?...
"We're depending on China to be prudent" Find out what our Chairman, Professor Simon Tay has to say in his Straits Times interview on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's controversial visit to Taiwan. ...
By Simon Tay For The Straits Times The Biden administration will continue to put forward initiatives, but the targets of its Asian courtship need to consider if these fit their interests and if the proposed deals can be relied on. This Straits Times commentary by Associate Professor...
By Simon Tay For The Washington Examiner Speaking candidly at a recent Washington, D.C., conference, Professor Simon Tay, Chairman of the SIIA, warned the U.S. that for Singapore and the nations of ASEAN, the idea of “ friend shoring ” and explicit bans on Chinese goods and...
By Simon Tay and Meixi Gan For The Business Times With the dust settled from the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), efforts in 2022 must turn to the hard work of implementing pledges made by countries and corporations at that meeting. In Singapore, an early January...
By Julia Tijaja and Simon Tay For The Jakarta Post Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the situation is still not fully stabilized, and the coming weeks may prove crucial with Omicron variant increasing uncertainty. Yet ASEAN largely rode out the Delta variant surge in the months...
By Jessica Wa'u and Rohini Nambiar For The Business Times GRAB'S recent US$40 billion initial public offering (IPO) is the culmination of a long and eventful journey riding on Asean's digital growth story. While the public listing of a South-east Asian 'super app' is a marker of...
By Simon Tay, Siti Bazilah and Aaron Choo For The Straits Times Indonesia was ranked the world's eighth-largest greenhouse gas emitter by the World Resources Institute, in a study before the pandemic. Agriculture, forestry and other land use make up around half of its emissions. So when Indonesia...