Opinion
Accounting for Kowtow? You can Bank on it!
It was May 1989. I had arrived in January in Hong Kong as a visiting research fellow at the University...
Director, Peter Lovelock spoke on the panel of “Opportunities from TVWS” in Philippines, 9 Jun 2014
This post appeared on Gov’t says roll-out of TV White Space to coincide with digital TV migration on June 16, 2014. Despite...
Commentary on TODAY, 11 June 2014: Cloud computing and connectivity in ASEAN by Lim May-Ann
This commentary first appeared in TODAY – Cloud computing and connectivity in ASEAN – Singapore on 11 June 2014. The 2015 deadline for...
Move Uber Please
In a benign Internet world, the emergence of a “caring, sharing” economy would be something to look forward to. For...
TRPC Director on FT, 19 May 2014: “Any privacy protection will be limited”
Any privacy protection will be limited From Prof John Ure. Sir, From 2011 until April this year I served as...
Managing Director Lim May-Ann on Talking Point – Apr 23, 2014
Managing Director Lim May-Ann made an appearance on Channel News Asia’s Talking Point taking on IDA, MDA, Techgoondu and Rajah&Tann...
TRPC and IIC Singapore Forum: International and Domestic Broadband Connectivity in Singapore
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Trust
Fewer, if not few, people have much trust in the banking and financial system after recent experiences of inter-bank rate...
WebRTC Asia Forum: For a Fixed and Mobile Web-Connected World. Hong Kong & Singapore – January 2014
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Another Age
I have just finishing reading the posthumously published lectures of British Marxist historian, Eric Hobsbawm who died October 2012. Fractured...
In Pursuit of Adequacy: Data Privacy Protection in the US-EU FTA
by Justin Streight In US-EU Free Trade negotiations, making business regulations compatible, harmonized and simple will be the lead. Not...
Try Forecasting the Past
In 2010, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, two respected Harvard economists, shot to fame for publishing a paper that seemed...
Lost and Found in Translation
Words. Here is an example of some, imaginatively (and unexpectedly) cited by the ITU’s Trends in Telecoms Reform 2013. (And...
It Ain’t Necessarily So
In the world of social media and instant online news feeds, what actually constitutes ‘news’ is rather problematic. The 140-character...
No News is Bad News
In March, two announcements were made pointing in opposite directions. First, Google announced the closing down of Google Reader, a...
TRPC Director response to FT article Jan 26: China’s subtle censoring of overseas scholarship
Deng foresaw the last door to open From Prof John Ure. Sir, Mark Elvin (Letters, January 26) gives some examples...
What’s there to think about?
2013 is the year of the Water Snake in the Chinese zodiac. Water is considered to have the colour black,...
TRPC Research Director Lim May-Ann quoted on ZD Net article: Competition to force Asia’s telcos to diversify faster, 17 Jan 2013
Summary: Declining revenues from core businesses and increasing competition from OTT providers mean operators need to move to new markets and...