TR EMERITUS

I refer to the article “Competition for Singapore as Japan legalises casinos” (Straits Times, Dec 17). It states that “After much political wrangling, the world’s third-largest economy passed a law in the wee hours of yesterday morning to allow casinos in the country, a move that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes will... 

The Americans with the help of biased western media, have been setting the agenda and the unthinking and mindless world just gobbled them up as the right and proper thing or message. The Chinese are moving missiles into the SCS and this is bad. The Americans have 400 bases surrounding China and the western media did not utter... 

Most consumers notice currency values, or exchange rates, when they travel abroad. One year you may find yourself feeling wealthy upon entering a foreign country, but the next year you may find yourself “shortchanged” at customs. How are these exchange rates set, and how do these rates impact trade within Southeast Asia? Currency...