Tag: Singapore

ASEAN summit a huge opportunity

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australia-ASEAN Special Summit to be held in Sydney in mid-March is surely the least talked about and yet most important regional forum ever hosted by this country. Leaving...

Singapore gets its Landing Pad

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The fifth and final of Australia’s much-ballyhooed international ‘Landing Pads’ is now operational in Singapore. It joins those in San Francisco, Berlin, Shanghai and Tel Aviv. The Landing Pads are...

New trade crew for Singapore

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
It’s all out change in Singapore right now when it comes to senior Australian diplomats and business leaders. Australia’s most important partner in Southeast Asia is the scene of...

PM Lee sings a familiar song

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
In many ways the contrast between the vast resource-rich Australia and geographically tiny and resource-free Singapore could not be more stark. And yet the two countries are becoming ever...

Singapore reboots digital govt

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The wealthy city-state of Singapore has once again displayed its relentless focus on providing leadership for the region on tech and innovation with the launch last week of a...

No internet means no cyber crime?

Posted on   |  by Graeme Philipson
Singapore, the country that gave social engineering a good name, has come up with a sure-fire way to ensure its government computers are not hacked. It is disconnecting them...

HealthTech is the new startup black

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Singapore is carving out one of its suite of technology niches as a regional hub for technology-driven healthcare and the related field of biotechnology. These sectors were very much...

Can the FinTech bubble save us all?

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
It is a question that is doing the rounds. “Are we in a fin-tech bubble, I think we are.” At least that was the message from among a phalanx of...

Landing on the SE Asia launch pad

Posted on   |  by Michael Sainsbury
Could it possibly get any better? The home for the fifth and final ‘Landing Pad’ under the Turnbull Government’s still nascent National Science and Innovation Agenda is a five...