Let's Talk, Singapore

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Charles Tang, CEO, AP Technologies. To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging Enterprise...

Subway, Toast Box and Breadtalk are all well-known franchises. Customers often pay a certain company a sum of money to use their brand and supply chain. Buyers get to operate under the business model in return for paying them some royalties. It is therefore a win-win situation. But it is surely more complex than that and like any self-respecting independent business owner, one would have to invest...

From what to expect from the upcoming ASEAN Summit, the latest on Malaysia’s general election and Myanmar's military government banning and revoking the publication licence for The Irrawaddy.  Nicholas Fang, Managing Director, Black Dot and Director for Security and Global Affairs, Singapore Institute of International Affairs shares more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Breakfast Huddle speaks to Keith Kam, Journalist, BFM89.9 in KL on the latest developments leading up to Malaysia's 15th general election.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's Breakfast Brief we look at Take Two's disappointing outlook as users move away from playing video games, amid easing pandemic restrictions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Taimur Baig, Chief Economist, DBS Bank, explains the implications of a potential win by Republicans in the US midterm elections for investors and the economy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Dr Dilip Limbu, Co-Founder & COO, MooVita.  To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging...

Google, Temasek and Bain & Company have recently released the seventh edition of the e-Conomy SEA Report for 2022. And over the last six years, the report has become the go-to authority on the state of the digital economy and its growth drivers across the six largest Southeast Asia countries. How are digital economy sectors tracking what gaps and growth opportunities SEA economies are facing a...

From angry netizens sending China’s censors into overdrive erasing an outpouring of criticism to a British minister expected to visit Taiwan this week for trade talks and meet President Tsai Ing-wen, the latest high-level engagement between a Western government and the island which China claims as its own territory. Dr. Oh Ei Sun, Senior Fellow, Singapore Institute of International Affairs shares...

Charu Chanana, Market Strategist, Saxo Singapore previews the slew of data out this week including the US consumer price index, as well as what to look out for from earnings by Disney, Adidas and EV makers.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A new joint research sponsored by CRM platform HubSpot, along with LinkedIn and conducted by YouGov, highlights the current business challenges faced by marketers in Singapore and reveals how the marketing dollar will be prioritised in a tight climate to keep the brand conversation going.  Kat Warboys, Marketing Director, APAC, HubSpot  shares more on findings from the survey and the state of mark...

In today's Breakfast Brief, we look at how markets are now giving back gains from earlier optimism around social media-fueled speculation that China would re-open by March 2023, after officials said they would "unswervingly" stick to the status quo with their Covid-zero strategy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The US midterm elections are happening this week, so are the Republicans looking like they are in a better position at the moment?  John Donaldson, Associate Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University gives us a preview of the US midterm elections and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Dr Piotr Kropelnicki, VP of Engineering and Founding Team Member, Meridian Innovation. To listen to...

Synopsis: Every first Friday of the month, The Straits Times' foreign editor Bhagyashree Garekar chats with ST’s correspondents in the Asia-Pacific, the US and Europe. They talk about life as it goes on, amid the screaming headlines and bubbling crises. In this episode, she chats with ST's China correspondent Aw Cheng Wei.  The idea of senior citizens looking for romance is no longer a stigma as o...

Glenn Thum, Research Analyst, Phillip Securities Research discusses his outlook for interest rates and banks margins, how big is the risk of recession, and the impact it will have on the amount of buffer that banks set aside for bad loans,  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Ding Eu-wen. Co-Founder & CEO, Lumos Labs.  To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging...

This year SLINGSHOT 2022 award went to Peptobiotics, the startup from Singapore that stood out for its innovative synthetic biology alternative to livestock antibiotics. Competing in the Environment, Energy & Green Technologies challenge domain, Peptobiotics aims to leverage advances in both human medicine and synthetic biology to create an antibiotic-free agricultural system.  Jonathan Bester...

For the first time in Malaysia’s election history, 18-year-olds and above are eligible to vote for their GE 2022. So how will young voters change up the landscape in Malaysia’s political scene?  Shannon Teoh, Malaysia Bureau Chief, Straits Times  discusses with us.     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Breakfast Brief today, we discuss US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo doubling down on the Biden administration’s controversial plan to ban US companies and citizens from helping China manufacture advanced semiconductor chips and what to expect from the soon to be announced US non-farm payroll for October.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Todd Jablonski, Chief Investment Officer, Asset Allocation, Principal Asset Management, unpacks the latest FOMC policy decision to hike rates by 0.75% and what it means for the USD and other markets.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the Breakfast Brief today, we unpack the FOMC's press conference and read into into some of the keywords used by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, after he hiked rates by 75 bps for a fourth time in a row, and said it was premature to talk about pausing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Even though there has been increased chatter about a shorter work week for Singapore, companies here may face challenges in attempting a four-day work week. Implementing this would need a nationwide shift in mindset from the dominant work culture and traditions that we are used to. For cybersecurity professionals, there is no such thing as a four day-week.  Shishir Singh, Executive Vice President...

From global wheat prices rising sharply following Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Grain export deal to Germany asking Serbia to choose between the EU and Russia.  Trisha Craig, Vice President (Engagement) and Senior Lecturer of Social Sciences (Sociology and Political Science), Yale-NUS College shares more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No annual award better honours the bold ambition of Singapore’s young businesses under ten years old than the Emerging Enterprise Award, jointly organised by Singapore Press Holdings' financial daily, The Business Times, and OCBC Bank. The Breakfast Huddle's Ryan Huang speaks to one of the finalists Logan Tan, CEO & Co-Founder, Eezee.  To listen to all the finalists of the OCBC Emerging Enterp...