Azalea Holdings

Will Azalea Bloom With Astrea IV?

  AN OLD adage in investing is don’t invest in something that you don’t understand. The new private equity-backed bond that has been launched by Temasek Holdings unit, the Azalea...
Jerry Chua

Jerry Cooks The Hu’s Sound

JERRY Chua’s man cave occupies a bedroom in an unassuming corner HDB flat in Pasir Ris. From his mixing studio, which occupies the entire length of a wall, many songs...

When Will We Have Happy Music?

COVID-19 brought down the curtains on many livelihoods, but few as deafeningly obvious as the concert industry. For artists like Singapore's Ramli Sarip and Airrion Love of The Stylistics, everything...
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Talk Is Cheap, Let’s Chat

THE good thing about COVID-19 is the push to digital. While there was a lot of hemming and hawing about moving in the digital direction, COVID-19 put an end to...
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The Post-pandemic Dining Scene May Look Very Different — WED WEB CHAT

IT WAS a stormy session filled with opinions and loads of invaluable advice from years of experience. The WED WEB CHAT — The Future Of Dining, a weekly discussion organised...
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Street Battles With The Giants

HE HAS been through the wars with his company, but Seth Ravin is still upbeat and full of optimism for what Rimini Street can offer small and medium enterprises...
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The Future Of Autos & Ships

AS society picks its way through the aftermath of the pandemic and its ripple effects, some businesses will have to take a different perspective to the altered state of...
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Be Smarter Than Your Smartphone

MASAFUMI Nagasaki is the remotely famous Japanese castaway who previously lived alone on Sotobanari, a deserted island, for 29 years, with hopes of dying gloriously in the midst of...

Society On A Tricky Onward Journey

HAVE we grown too comfortable as a society? Are we losing our edge? And if so, what should we do about it? From MRT incidents to SingTel broadband failure, the...

Nissan Qashqai: A Smooth Crossover

ONE of the challenges faced by the sport utility vehicle (SUV) is that size often has a definite impact on performance. Many larger SUVs tend to suffer from rocky rides...