Warren Fernandez

The consensus across the board is that business is seen as being more ethical and competent than other institutions

Over 120 news-rooms from around the world will come together today to mark World News Day, including journalists from Toronto to Taipei, Spain to Singapore.

As the coronavirus continues its relentless spread across the world, infecting over a million people and killing tens of thousands, news stories of lockdowns, social distancing and overwhelmed hospitals have been making the headlines just about everywhere.

The poster boy for robust health in the media industry used to have decidedly Indian features. Even as their counterparts elsewhere languished, Indian media houses were once busy launching new titles, snapping up journalists and boosting orders for newsprint,

And so we have come to the end of the End of History.

Singapore is well known for its Third to First World economic transformation, its efficient, effective government, as well as for being a fine, clean and green city. The annual Shangri-La Dialogue, when defence chiefs from many countries gather on the island to thrash out the geopolitical issues

These days, Harvard Professor Graham Allison is hailed as something of a prophet. Officials he met in China recently referred to him as the man who “predicted” a clash between the United States and China, he says. “It was not a prophesy,” he adds. “I simply pointed out the recurring patterns of histor

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. So the late British Prime Minister and famed orator, Winston Churchill, is once supposed to have said.