Leadership

By Yu Tiejun, Vice President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Peking University (China), On the west side of the Pacific, many Chinese closely followed the extended, exciting, and exhausting...

By Ong Keng Yong, Executive Deputy Chairman, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore), Most of the time, Southeast Asia and its regional organisation, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

By Yasushi Kudo, President, The Genron NPO (Japan), Many in Japan believe that the 2020 U.S. presidential election is a test of the very concept of democracy. Joe Biden’s victory...

By Kai Kong Chay, Greater China specialist at Manulife Investment Management, We believe that the relationship between China and the US could remain under pressure following the US presidential election...

By Ameen Kamal, Head of Science & Technology at EMIR Research, News of a vaccine breakthrough from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE on its mRNA-type BNT162b2 vaccine achieving 90% effectiveness...

By Hanifah Hashim, Chief Executive Officer/Head Malaysia Fixed Income & Sukuk, Franklin Templeton GSC Asset Management and Sukumar Rajah, Senior Managing Director, Director of Portfolio Management, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity,...

Asia, especially North Asia, could benefit. Under a Joe Biden presidency, the foreign policy order of preference is expected to be: • Rebuild relationships with America’s allies • Narrow the...

By K. Raman, Managing Director, Microsoft Malaysia, As Malaysia reopens for business, the ‘Stand United, We Shall Prevail’ themed budget is both timely and bold as it will accelerate the...

By Dr Margarita Peredaryenko and Ameen Kamal, the research team of EMIR Research In the lead up to Budget 2021 announced by the government on 6 November 2020, EMIR Research...

While the risk of a cut had obviously gone up, not down, recently due to the uptick in pandemic challenges and political bickering, it was not enough to tip the...