Singapore business leaders show cautious approach to climate and catastrophic risk, report reveals

S'porean leaders seem to be focusing more on immediate business concerns than long-term climate risks, the report found

https://theindependent.sg/singapore-business-leaders-show-cautious-approach-to-climate-and-catastrophic-risk-report-reveals/

Researchers name six countries as likely customers of #Paragon’s #spyware

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/researchers-name-several-countries-as-potential-paragon-spyware-customers/

I’ve been thinking lately about how I grew up very strictly Anglophone in an Asian society, when my parents barely spoke English (not the same way my brother and I do). Like when we speak, we sound like we are speaking different languages (even in English). Depending on where I am, I can sound like the local native English speaker.

Many of my compatriots do not sound like me. There’s Singlish, which is a type of creole combining English, Hokkien, Mandarin, Malay and some Tamil. But that’s not quite it either: there is a ‘basolectal English’, the one that is grammatically ‘correct’ but unmistakeably places the English speaker in the location they come from (Singaporean, Aussie, Kiwi basolectal are very obvious).

It is usually a function of class and society and privilege that a person in a colonial society speaks English a certain way. In my parents’ time, our English teachers and newscasters spoke with a ‘stiff upper lip’. Maybe that was class, then. When I was a teenager, upper middle class people spoke like the BBC newscasters. But not stiff upper lip. Today, we sound.. American or some form of British.

And I don’t know how I started to speak like that. I went to an elite school, but my family barely spoke English. My language at home was not even Mandarin, the language of the upper class Sinophones, it was Teochew and Hokkien; the language of the pasar (the wet market). In formal situations in Singapore, I can code switch into basolectal English, kind of less American sounding formal English, so more older professional people understand me. In the cab, I can curse in Singlish at taxi drivers who ask me if I’m American.

In this video; I sound ‘generic American’, maybe Californian: https://youtu.be/I6m82wB2qhY

When I speak with people from ‘back home’ I sound completely different.

Some 97% of 529 sustainability reports by issuers provided at least one disclosure based on the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations. This is up from 73% in the previous review in 2023.

While over half of the issuers (61%) provided at least nine TCFD disclosures, only 28% of issuers provided all 11 disclosures across the framework’s four pillars: governance, strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets

https://www.theedgesingapore.com/news/environmental-social-and-governance/nearly-all-listcos-have-begun-climate-reporting-sgx-regco

Singapore academic Donald Low writes about the thing I've been worried about: Singapore's 'born again Chinese', or ethnic Chinese people in the diaspora who have been targeted by CCP propaganda in social media and chat groups

I was starting to see people say things like 'oh, I will only use the Chinese vaccine, it was created for Chinese people' and I just could not believe what I was hearing. Not isolated cases too: lots and lots of people. Especially Boomers.

A lot of this is just step one towards challenges to national sovereignty, and worsens racial issues in the country by emphasizing more 'Chineseness' (already the majority group there with oppressive features)

How the Crypto Exchange Bybit Lost $1.5 Billion to North Korean Hackers - The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit lost $1.5 billion to North Korean hackers last month — ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/bybit-crypto-hack-north-korea.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #bankingandfinancialinstitutions #computersandtheinternet #cyberattacksandhackers #robberiesandthefts #computersecurity #virtualcurrency #bybitfintechltd #lazarusgroup #socialmedia #singapore #benzhou