On 12 February 2026, Budget 2026 was delivered by Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Lawrence Wong. This was the government’s first Budget in its new term and comes at the start of the post-SG60 phase.
This budget also comes at a time of profound global change which, while...
Research from IDC, commissioned by Deel, reveals a workforce in rapid transition: two in three global organisations (66%) expect to slow entry-level hiring over the next three years, while nine in ten (91%) report roles are already changing or disappearing due to AI. The result? A widening skills gap...
Jobstreet by SEEK has released The Great Expectation Gap: Rethinking Work and Worth in Singapore, a new report uncovering how job mismatches, trade-offs, and conditional compromises have come to define the working life of Singaporeans.
Conducted in partnership with Milieu Insight, the study of 800 employees and employers explores how both...
Frustrated that many durian desserts in Singapore failed to live up to the promised taste, lifelong durian lover Zenobia Loh decided to take matters into her own hands, creating desserts that let the fruit speak for itself.
Taking a leap of faith during the pandemic, she founded The Durian Bakery...
Asia Pacific is set to overtake North America as the largest consumer market in 2035, according to a new joint report by Bain & Company and NielsenIQ (NIQ).
Private consumption in the region is expected to grow at 7% CAGR to reach $36 trillion by the end of the next decade, as global private consumption nearly doubles...
The Mimecast 2025 Global Threat Intelligence Report, examining threat activity in 2025, reveals that threat actors are pivoting their tactics to approach human touchpoints from every angle – inside business flows and across channels – to deploy coordinated campaigns that overwhelm traditional defenses.
Mimecast’s threat telemetry reveals that compromised systems...
Collinson International has released its new Asia Pacific (APAC) research titled "2025 Asia Pacific Consumer Happiness Report: How to Generate Lifetime Customer Value in a Transformation Economy".
Surveying over 4,000 respondents across eight markets in Asia Pacific and conducted in partnership with renowned behavioural psychologist Dr. William von Hippel, the...
2025 has seen the development of AI powered solutions into an increasing number of business domains. As AI continues to change the way businesses operate and face their clients, tech leaders weigh in on how human-AI interactions will evolve.
AI and the customer
As voice AI advances, we are seeing agentic...
DHL eCommerce has released its E-Commerce Trends Report 2025, drawing on insights from 24, 000 online shoppers across 24 key markets worldwide. For the Asia Pacific region, results show that delivery remains a significant barrier to purchase completion, with 77% of Asia Pacific shoppers abandoning their carts when their preferred delivery options are unavailable.
Social...
Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company have launched the 10th edition of the annual e-Conomy SEA report, From Digital Decade to AI Reality: Accelerating the future in ASEAN.
For the first time, the report has expanded its coverage from six markets to ten Southeast Asian nations—adding Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, and...
