TR EMERITUS

Wayne Swan's inexplicable decision to kill off the sale of the Australian Securities Exchange to the Singapore Stock Exchange is another milestone on our road to national ruin. Yes, I know, some people like to call the deal a merger. It does sound nicer. But whatever, to knock it back is madness. The Treasurer must think again.... 

Last week, the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale announced their plan to establish Singapore's first liberal arts college, which will be known as the Yale-NUS College. The new college will initially accept 150 students whose education will be supervised by Yale faculty members. But students shouldn’t expect to... 

Yet we all know national interest goes both ways. ''A MISSED opportunity for both sides,'' or so claimed the Singapore government's quasi-official mouthpiece, The Straits Times, yesterday after the shock of Treasurer Wayne Swan's knockback of Singapore Inc's $8 billion takeover of Australian Securities Exchange filtered through...