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  • OPINION

    Mahathir must temper market scorn

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 18/05/2018

    » Mahathir Mohamad blamed everyone except himself and his policies for his country's entanglement in the 1997 Asian crisis. It appears two decades haven't been enough to mellow the Malaysian leader.

  • OPINION

    Harley, Trump and Thailand's big trade gamble

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 18/07/2018

    » Democracies look to voters for validation of their economic policies. For Thailand's military junta, the affirmation is coming from Beijing, bankers and the likes of Harley-Davidson Inc.

  • OPINION

    No Chinese belt, road or bedrooms for Mahathir

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 30/08/2018

    » Perplexed, wounded, indignant or still optimistic. The Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Co. can put any spin it wants on its Forest City project, a US$100 billion Malaysian township whose fate suddenly has been thrown into doubt after Mahathir Mohamad's pointed refusal to let foreigners buy apartments or live in them long term.

  • OPINION

    Lessons to be learnt from India's debt-ridden projects

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 18/09/2018

    » It was as a newspaper-office intern in New Delhi in 1992 that I witnessed the birth of India's homegrown belt-and-road initiative. The programme was midwifed by an up-and-coming lender that few had then heard of: Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd.

  • OPINION

    Millennial vote a key for Asian polls

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 31/12/2018

    » In the first half of 2019, a billion Asians will elect the next leaders of the region's two largest democracies. Half -- 400 million in India, and 79 million in Indonesia -- are from the millennial generation, born roughly between 1982 and 2001. Many will cast ballots for the first time. Although the threat of sectarian hatred looms large over both the Indian and Indonesian elections, economics will still take centre stage.

  • OPINION

    Covid's real cost could well be eternal spying

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 11/05/2020

    » Much of our pre-coronavirus lives may be reclaimable with some modifications around how we work, socialise and travel. In one crucial way, though, the post-pandemic landscape will be very different: The individual's autonomy over her data may be lost forever. Our mobiles will keep us safe -- by spying on us.

  • OPINION

    Modi's failed plan to make a Singapore in Gujarat

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 22/02/2021

    » When Singapore set up an international financial hub in the late 1960s, the city-state was thinking both fast and slow -- seizing an immediate opportunity, and opening a path to long-term economic development. Half a century later, India is attempting something similar in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat. But without much thought going into what exactly it's building, for whom and for what purpose, all it may get is a casino for the local rich.

  • OPINION

    Why India risks falling way behind in the AI race

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 03/07/2023

    » India's tech industry is being less than bold in embracing artificial intelligence. It's hoping to create solutions for corporate clients by building on top of somebody else's investment in foundational technologies, hardly a strategy for pathbreaking success.

  • OPINION

    When can we expect to see India Inc's moonshots?

    News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 25/08/2023

    » Now that India has become the first country in the world to land a spacecraft near the moon's south pole -- for less than half the money Christopher Nolan spent on the movie, Interstellar -- its risk-averse private sector will hopefully be inspired to launch some moonshots of its own. Just beating investor expectations next quarter won't get them ahead in the long game in artificial intelligence or new materials and energy.

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