Asian Insider

Asian Insider (special edition): US-China trade war, Huawei and digital tax issues 10.41 mins Synopsis: This is Asian Insider, a series by The Straits Times every Friday. Together with our stable of 30 correspondents based around the world, we give an Asian perspective on the global talking points of the week. In this episode of the Asian Insider, The Straits Times' associate editor Vikram Khanna...

Asian Insider Ep 3: Hong Kong protests; Brexit implications for Asia 17:36 mins Synopsis: This is Asian Insider, a series by The Straits Times every Friday. Together with our stable of 30 correspondents based around the world, we give an Asian perspective on the global talking points of the week. In this episode of the Asian Insider, The Straits Times' Washington bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh leads th...

Asian Insider Ep 2: US-China trade war: Who will blink first? 15:57 mins Synopsis: This is Asian Insider, a series by The Straits Times every Friday. Together with our stable of 30 correspondents based around the world, we give an Asian perspective on the global talking points of the week. In this episode, Nirmal Ghosh - The Straits Times’ US bureau chief - discusses the escalating trade war betwe...

Asian Insider Ep 1: Effects of Hong Kong protests on its people, China and Asia 13 mins Synopsis: This is Asian Insider, a series by The Straits Times every Friday. Together with our stable of 30 correspondents based around the world, we give an Asian perspective on the global talking points of the week. ST's US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh hosts Hong Kong correspondent Claire Huang and Beijing-based...

Why It Matters   Episode 12   Duration: 6:51 mins   Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week.   Kevin Kwan, whose best-selling book inspired the new Hollywood box office hit movie Crazy Rich Asians, defaulted on his national service obligations, the Ministry of Defence said on Aug 22 in response...

Why It Matters   Episode 10   Duration: 8:45 mins   Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week.   As more Singaporeans come online in the Smart Nation transformation, scams via online, mobile phone and social media routes are on the rise too.   The Straits Times' senior tech correspondent Iren...

Why It Matters Episode 10 Duration: 7:20 mins Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week. In July, National Development Minister Lawrence Wong said that the latest cooling measures for the Singapore property market - in the form of higher Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty or ABSD rates and tighter loan limits - were intro...

Why It Matters   Episode 9   Duration: 10 mins   Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week.   SingHealth's recent data breach in Singapore's worst cyber attack, has triggered questions over the country's Smart Nation initiatives.   The country's largest and most serious data breach involving...

Why It Matters Episode 8 Duration: 11:40 mins Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week. Time magazine, The Financial Times and The Telegraph are just some of the many top news publications that featured photos of the historic June 12 Trump-Kim summit in Singapore taken by The Straits Times' executive photojournalist...

Why It Matters Episode 7 Duration: 12:20 mins Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week. The Singapore summit on June 12 will go down in global history as the first meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader, and one which produced a denuclearisation deal. Join host and ST's deputy news editor J...

Why It Matters Episode 6 Duration: 13 mins Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week. The Singapore Summit on June 12 will go down in global history as the first meeting between a sitting US President and a North Korean leader, and one which produced a denuclearisation deal. Join host Ernest Luis as he sums up the Tr...

Why It Matters Episode 5 Duration: 8:36 mins Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has already announced that his government intends to scrap the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore high-speed rail (HSR), in a move to control government spending and reduce the nation's RM1 trillion (...

Why It Matters Episode 4 Duration: 9:40 mins Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week. The issue of Singapore's top schools becoming closed circles instead of social levellers has again come under scrutiny after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong highlighted the problem of stratification in Parliament recently. Host and...

Why It Matters  Episode 3  Duration: 10:30 mins    Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week.    Recent remarks from National Development Minister Lawrence Wong that the Government is looking into the ageing Housing Board flat lease issue have been mostly welcomed by observers of the hou...

Why It Matters Episode 2 Duration: 10:45 mins Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week.   US President Donald Trump is to meet North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore on June 12 for a historic meeting. But with recent North Korean threats to cancel the summit if Washington seeks to push Pyongyang into giv...

Why It Matters  Episode 1  Duration: 9:10 mins  Synopsis: In this new podcast series for 2018, The Straits Times takes a close look at one key news talking point each week.   In the wake of two fatal accidents in April 2018, the Land Transport Authority has decided - where feasible - to replace discretionary right turns with red-amber-green arrow lights at the bulk of road junc...