The Bee’s Knees

WHEN you are up against a US$40 billion counterfeit industry, consumers have to be very sure what they are getting is the real thing, especially if they are paying...
Ku Swee Yong

Coping With The Hot Winds Of Change

KU SWEE YONG DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY ADVISOR & AUTHOR“THE world is undergoing significant transitions. Western astrologers noted a shift from the Earth era to the Air era that occurred in December...
GST increase

How GST Affects You

THE goods and services tax will go up to 9% by 2024. What impact will this have on individuals and businesses? Taxes have historically always been a sensitive subject, since...
Resilience Budget,

Some Questions Unanswered

THIS is a laudable initiative launched by Minister Heng Swee Keat in these troubled times. At a glance, the Resilience Budget offers several sweeteners for various sectors of the economy. It...
MoonSwatch Neptune

Lunar Ticks — The MoonSwatch Experiment

The MoonSwatch that people are going gaga over is a moonshot project for the Swatch Group. The reaction it generated globally — people rushing and clamouring for the cheaper Omega...

3 Points On Communication

WE TEND to be creatures of habit. When forced to work under unnatural conditions, the mind behaves in a different mode and the dynamic that is in place in the...

Hair Today, More Tomorrow

ANITA WONG likes to be challenged. The founder of PHS Hairscience built her hair care business from scratch, based on a simple strategy — fulfilling women's desire for that resplendent...
budget 2020

Budget 2020 — 5. What The Small Businesses Say

SMALL businesses form a large community that is at risk from Covid-19 and the economic situation arising from rising operating costs. Here, a disparate group from a variety of...
Empathy

Consultants Need Empathy To Be Effective

IF THE Industrial Age was about ‘product’ and the Information Age was about ‘data’, this  Connected Age that we are in is about ‘meaning’.  Our future belongs to those people...
AVPN Mental Wellbeing fund

Sound Bites From The AVPN Global Conference 2023

“THIS is a room of problem solvers.” Malaysia’s Minister of Youth and Sports, Hannah Yeoh (fourth from right, above), made this observation at the launch of the USD3 million Asian...