Wuhan virus: Why investors are not panicking
Unlike the anti-PAP cybernuts who rushed to hoard rice and instant noodles investors are not panicking Because We estimate that even in a scenario where the rate of new infections did not peak until the second quarter, the negative hit to global economic growth would be about 0.3 percentage points. That means the expansion would...
Can ISA detention reform a radical 17-year-old?
The recent detention without trial of a 17-year-old boy shocks me. He has not even been enlisted into the army. The Ministry of Home Affairs statement of 10 February 2020 claims that they had since 2017 tried to steer him clear of ISIS. But they (and here I presume some religious organisations would have been involved) have...
It’s a rather good virus
I’m currently living in a region under siege. Ever since the 2019 Coronavirus, which started in the Chinese city of Wuhan, broke onto the world stage, nations around the world have been gearing up for a global pandemic. When I landed in Hanoi on the 23rd of January 2020, the Vietnamese (who have a history of hosting large...
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