Warren Fernandez

Business: A Harmonising Force in a Polarised Asia

The consensus across the board is that business is seen as being more ethical and competent than other institutions

World News Day: Why real news matters amid the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and fake news

Over 120 news-rooms from around the world will come together today to mark World News Day, including journalists from Toronto to Taipei, Spain to Singapore.

Credible media vital in fight against COVID-19 and fake news epidemic

As the coronavirus continues its relentless spread across the world, infecting over a million people and killing tens of thousands, news stories of lockdowns, social distancing and overwhelmed hospitals have been making the headlines just about everywhere.

Securing the future of quality journalism

The poster boy for robust health in the media industry used to have decidedly Indian features. Even as their counterparts elsewhere languished, Indian media houses were once busy launching new titles, snapping up journalists and boosting orders for newsprint,

New chapter emerging as East meets West again

And so we have come to the end of the End of History.

Forging community ties, one friendly gesture at a time

Singapore is well known for its Third to First World economic transformation, its efficient, effective government, as well as for being a fine, clean and green city. The annual Shangri-La Dialogue, when defence chiefs from many countries gather on the island to thrash out the geopolitical issues

US, China: Frenemies?

These days, Harvard Professor Graham Allison is hailed as something of a prophet. Officials he met in China recently referred to him as the man who “predicted” a clash between the United States and China, he says. “It was not a prophesy,” he adds. “I simply pointed out the recurring patterns of histor

200 Years Of Singapore: Looking back to chart a way forward

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. So the late British Prime Minister and famed orator, Winston Churchill, is once supposed to have said.

March 9, 2023
March 9, 2023

Business: A Harmonising Force in a Polarised Asia

The consensus across the board is that business is seen as being more ethical and competent than other institutions

September 28, 2020
September 28, 2020

World News Day: Why real news matters amid the twin pandemics of Covid-19 and fake news

Over 120 news-rooms from around the world will come together today to mark World News Day, including journalists from Toronto to Taipei, Spain to Singapore.

April 11, 2020
April 11, 2020

Credible media vital in fight against COVID-19 and fake news epidemic

As the coronavirus continues its relentless spread across the world, infecting over a million people and killing tens of thousands, news stories of lockdowns, social distancing and overwhelmed hospitals have been making the headlines just about everywhere.

September 28, 2019
September 28, 2019

Securing the future of quality journalism

The poster boy for robust health in the media industry used to have decidedly Indian features. Even as their counterparts elsewhere languished, Indian media houses were once busy launching new titles, snapping up journalists and boosting orders for newsprint,

July 29, 2019
July 29, 2019

New chapter emerging as East meets West again

And so we have come to the end of the End of History.

July 10, 2019
July 10, 2019

Forging community ties, one friendly gesture at a time

Singapore is well known for its Third to First World economic transformation, its efficient, effective government, as well as for being a fine, clean and green city. The annual Shangri-La Dialogue, when defence chiefs from many countries gather on the island to thrash out the geopolitical issues

May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019

US, China: Frenemies?

These days, Harvard Professor Graham Allison is hailed as something of a prophet. Officials he met in China recently referred to him as the man who “predicted” a clash between the United States and China, he says. “It was not a prophesy,” he adds. “I simply pointed out the recurring patterns of histor

January 28, 2019
January 28, 2019

200 Years Of Singapore: Looking back to chart a way forward

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. So the late British Prime Minister and famed orator, Winston Churchill, is once supposed to have said.

September 7, 2017
September 7, 2017

A very Singaporean dilemma in picking a president

Singaporeans will head to the polls to pick a new president on September 23. Or maybe not.

June 4, 2017
June 4, 2017

New ways to deliver good journalism

When Pope Francis met United States President Donald Trump last month at the Vatican, he urged him to be a man of peace.

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