Tag: Commentary
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Commentary: NDR 2026 – why a higher BTO income ceiling isn’t just a housing policy adjustment
While its core objective is to ensure affordable housing, public housing also fulfils another equally important policy objective of encouraging family formation, says Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Woo Jun Jie.
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Commentary: NDR 2026 – if Singapore can plan 50 years ahead for infrastructure, can it do the same for nature?
Long-term plans for Singapore’s western islands offer something precious: time to get it right, says NUS’ Melissa Low.
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Commentary: Can you teach yourself to detect AI writing? Maybe
Before generative AI, we could generally assume that written text had been composed by a human. This is no longer the case, says a professor.
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Commentary: Canada said no to America. It will reverberate far beyond its borders
Prime Minister Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do, says Stephen Marche for the New York Times.
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Commentary: NDR 2026 – non-parents shouldn’t be default substitutes for parents on childcare leave
The new childcare leave scheme can push firms to design work better and accommodate other caregiving needs, says NTU’s Chua Yeow Hwee.
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Commentary: What retail investors need to know before jumping into Anthropic’s IPO
There are many business risks for the maker of Claude, so don’t rush in, says Simon Edelsten for the Financial Times.
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Commentary: Trump’s ‘57 nukes’ assessment and the hollowing out of North Korean denuclearisation
If Trump treats North Korea’s arsenal as a baseline fact, he hands Beijing the outcome it wants, says an academic.
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Snap Insight: NDR 2026 – the real shift in family support goes beyond S$70,000 per child
The new measures move us toward treating child-raising as something to build and maintain collectively as a society, says Kalpana Vignehsa from the Institute of Policy Studies.
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Commentary: It’s time to ask ourselves exactly how important football is to Singapore
A genuine momentum has been generated for local football that was previously gasping for air, and more can be done, says former sports commentator Edwin Yeo.
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Commentary: Trump’s South Korea defence flip reminds Japan it has no Plan B
While alarming for Seoul, an abandonment of US guarantees could be disastrous for Tokyo, says Leo Lewis for The Financial Times.
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