Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong

The last days of April were busy ones for Singapore's markets. Apart from Keppel Offshore & Marine and Sembcorp Marine announcing plans to merge, Yangzhijiang Shipbuilding spun off its financial unit, which then began trading on the SGX on April 28. Terence Wong, CEO of Azure Capital, joined us once again on Prime Time to talk about these 2 major events,  and also what he's looking out for ahead of the 1Q earnings of Singapore's Big 3 banks.

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Sustainability is the new buzzword in business and finance, but what will it really take to make sustainable finance and impact investing the norm? Prime Time’s Timothy Go and Bharati Jaddish discuss mainstreaming the Sustainable Finance agenda with Helene Li, CEO and Co-founder, GoImpact on Eco Money.

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What do you know about carbon air miles or slow tourism? These are just some of the factors that can help you travel more sustainably. Prime Time’s Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish find out more from Liang Lei, Correspondent, Eco Business in Sustainable Singapore.

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F&B establishments are bracing themselves for the return of dine-in crowds with the lifting of group size limits and the cap on workers allowed to return to the workplace.

In The Straits Times’ The Big Story, Multimedia journalist Hairianto Dirman spoke to Andrew Chan, honorary treasurer of the Restaurant Association of Singapore, on the labour crunch that restaurants are facing and what they are doing to cope with the issue.

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The Jakarta Composite Index has been on a roll, rising by as much as 10% since the start of the year, and buoyed by the commodities boom that's seen Indonesian exports surge, and miners in the resource-rich nation thrive. But might China's COVID-19 lockdowns thwart the commodities boom and end the good times for Indonesia's stocks? How are rising costs impacting the average Indonesian? And will the recent export ban on palm oil curb higher cooking oil prices? John Rachmat, Chief Strategist for PT Pinnacle Investments, joined us on Across the ASEAN to discuss Indonesia's strong gains, and how one of their funds was able to outperform the Jakarta benchmark.

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