TR EMERITUS

I refer to the article "Covid-19: Time to have new mindset in endemic phase" (ST, 8 Aug). (S'pore's Press Freedom Ranking 160th!) The editor-at-large, Han Fook Kwang commented that credit should go to the government as the high vaccination rate of almost 70 per cent has enabled the country to move towards this possibility. In... 

Let’s be perfect honest, the Tokyo Olympics have been pretty disappointing for Singapore’s athletes. After winning our first ever gold medal five years ago in Rio De Janeiro, the closest we came to getting a sniff of a medal came from Ms. Yu Mengyu, who reached the semi-finals but lost and then failed to get the bronze. I... 

The last few days have seen a savage sell-off in Chinese tech stocks that has wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off their market capitalisation. The Hang Seng Technology Index has fallen some 24% since the date of Temasek’s year end valuation and by 43% from its peak. While there is no transparent market in pre-IPO and...