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Remembering Lee Kuan Yew
- Mr Lee Kuan Yew was committed to a cause greater than himself: President Tony Tan: TODAY
- LKY: The economic pragmatist; He was a man unafraid to challenge the popular ideologies of the day; he had no truck with dogma. Right up to the end of his life, LKY believed in constantly adapting to the hard realities of a changing world: TODAY
- Singapore After Lee Kuan Yew: Future Is Uncertain For The Utilitarian Paradise He Created: Forbes
- Lee Kuan Yew: China watcher who offered Beijing a model: FT
- The great persuader: He did not crave to be popular; rather, Mr Lee Kuan Yew sought to persuade people to see his point of view. TODAY
- After Lee, Singapore Needs a Rethink: Bloomberg
- An Expat Ponders Lee Kuan Yew’s Legacy & Asks: Is the Singapore Model Scalable?: WSJ
Life
- Dyson invests £12m to create new engineering school; The Dyson School of Design Engineering, based in South Kensington, has been set up to address the ‘dearth’ of UK engineers: Telegraph
- Stop waiting for the muse to arrive and make something new; Creativity tips from tech entrepreneur Kevin Ashton: FT
- Goethe’s Aphorisms: Farnam
- Speeches – Ten Rules to Utilize: Farnam
Books
- Seuss-isms! A Guide to Life for Those Just Starting Out…and Those Already on Their Way: Amazon, Farnam
Investing Process
- Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
- Conglomerates are not built equally: They offer diversified earnings streams, but can be complex and prone to value destruction: BT
- Buffett says ‘sprawl’ is good, but may not be good enough; “Berkshire is now a sprawling conglomerate, constantly trying to sprawl further. In an operating sense, Berkshire is not a giant company, but rather a collection of large companies”: Reuters
Greater China
- Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
- Getting Fugitives Back to China ‘Requires Better Evidence-Collecting Skills’: Caixin
- China’s Coming Education Crisis: WSJ
- China Seeks to Develop Global Seed Power; Beijing looks to defend home market against foreign makers like Monsanto and DuPont: WSJ
- Stricken China steel mills look to state to ease exit strategy: Reuters
India
- Rajan backs removal of central bank’s debt powers: Reuters
Japan & Korea
- Former POSCO executive arrested; Prosecutors digging deeper into slush fund scandal: KT
- Korea’s struggle to create its own Silicon Valley: KH
- The ‘candle effect’: Why Koreans splurge on small home decor items: AsiaOne
ASEAN
- Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
- OJK has announced plans to ban members and affiliates of political parties from being appointed directors and commissioners to banks, in order to prevent possible conflicts of interest. JG
- Asia’s About to Spawn a New Tiger Economy: Good Morning, Vietnam: Bloomberg
- Addressing last mile e-commerce logistics, payment issues in Indonesia: e27
- Myanmar social media platform to float on UK’s Aim: FT
Macro
- Currency hedging takes on new importance for global stock funds: Reuters
- No Risk Too Big as Traders Plot Escape From Negative Yields: Bloomberg
- Global fund managers warn of a bond bubble: FT
- At Annual Meetings, 70 Is the New 50: Study: WSJ
- Regulators Missed Chance to Block Bad Deals; States failed to detect potential problems with Burns deals preceding collapse of the young financier’s empire: WSJ
Energy & Commodities
- Monday interview: Andrew Mackenzie, BHP Billiton CEO; The world’s most valuable mining company is on the verge of a radical corporate simplification: FT
Healthcare
- How Biogen scored the most successful Alzheimer’s drug so far: Fortune
- Big Pharma’s Unfamiliar Biosimilar Threat; Drug payers have a potent new weapon to lower prices: WSJ
- The Promise and Challenge of Health Analytics: WSJ
TMT
- Dizzying Pre-IPO Tech Values Spurred by Rush of Hedge-Fund Money: Bloomberg
- Inside the challenges of transforming an eBay side hustle into a million dollar business: FastCo
- Taiwanese companies vie for wireless charging market: WCT
- Disney’s $1 billion bet on a magical wristband; The Magicband wields access to the park, replacing virtually every transaction you’d make inside. Wired
- Chutzpah Lessons From The Israeli Startup Scene: Techcrunch
- How Steve Jobs reacted when a top Apple executive left for a competing company; It only took about four seconds for Jobs to call Rubinstein after he sent that email: BI
- Apple and Google stake a claim on big pharma’s turf: FT
Consumer & Others
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