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[The Straits Times, 17 January 2012]] |
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Completing the wage revolution |
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At the Institute of Policy Studies’ annual conference themed, “Singapore Perspectives 2102 – Singapore Inclusive: Bridging Divides” held on 16 January 16 2012, SMU chairman Ho Kwon Ping sees the need to complete the wage revolution that was started in the 1980s in order to close the widening income gap. He discerns that Singapore has a dual-income economy: an internationally competitive and well-paid economy, and a low cost, low-skilled domestic economy. To bring about a more equal and self-reliant society, he urges that wages in the domestic service industries should be raised. |
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[The Business Times, 24 October 2011] |
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Innovation - the way Ho Kwon Ping sees it |
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Mr Ho shares that it is critical even for companies in non- high-tech industries to embark on innovation with a recognition that it is strategic to their own future. |
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[Bloomberg Television's, 12 September 2011] |
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Banyan Tree's Ho Kwon Ping: "High Flyers" |
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Ho Kwon Ping, founder and executive chairman of luxury resort operator Banyan Tree Holdings Ltd., talks about his life, career and business philosophy. Ho spoke in Singapore with Haslinda Amin on Bloomberg Television's "High Flyers." |
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[The Straits Times, 26 August 2011] |
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Process Too Politically Charged? |
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Ho Kwon Ping, chairman of the board of trustees of SMU, writes that the future of Singapore politics is of vital concern to every Singaporean, but the battle for the minds of the electorate properly belongs in the realm of parliamentary elections |
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[The Straits Times, 7 July 2011] |
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Soft Powers of A President |
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Mr Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman of the SMU Board of Trustees, wrote in a commentary that while an elected president may have only custodial powers and ceremonial responsibilities, he may bear the burden of articulating the voice of the nation at its proudest, and rallying its people at the most dire of times. |
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[The Straits Times, 5 May 2011] |
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Towards A First Rate Electorate |
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Ho Kwon Ping, chairman of the board of trustees, writes in this commentary that Singapore may be moving deliberately yet irrevocably towards a First World electorate, and that if all goes well, the winner in this watershed election may well be Singapore's future. |
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[The Straits Times, 19 January 2011] |
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The Silent Revolution In My Backyard |
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When Mr Ho went to South America for two weeks recently, he went in search of the legacy of guerilla leader Che Guevara and to assess his answers to economic underdevelopment and inequality. He found no successful revolution there – only idealistic but botched movements and some measure of progress and hope for the future. On reflection, it is in fact in his own backyard, the island of Singapore, that the most significant socio-economic revolution has taken place. The answers to much of the Third World's malaise can be found in Singapore's own ascent from Third to First World. The challenge for Singapore then, is how to not drown in its own success. Singapore's biggest success, he said, has been the creation of a middle class society, but one which must not ever lose its edge, its slight paranoia and its unease at its own success. |
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