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Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong
Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong is your 4–8pm drive companion, guiding you through the day’s biggest headlines, trending conversations and the issues shaping Singapore and the world. From news and current affairs to lifestyle insights and generational perspectives, the show helps you make sense of what’s happening — with clarity, context and a touch of personality. Whether you’re catching up after a long day or tuning in on the move, Your Way Home keeps you…
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Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Bank stocks’ performance after 25bps rate hike by the US Fed, Keppel Pacific Oak Reit’s DPU down 12.6%, Oxley’s first half net profit tumbles, Adani Enterprises calls off US$2.5B share sale
Singapore shares rose in early trade today, tracking a Wall Street rally as the Federal Reserve took interest rates higher by 25 basis points overnight. But…
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Sports Minutes: What defines a G.O.A.T?
Today we talk about Tom Brady who has once again retired and 55 year old Japanese player getting a professional football contract, so does age really matter in…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn The Spotlight: Macro trends driving travel demand as borders reopen, the rise of digital-first travellers
No secret that travel is back, but how are those in the industry fairing in their recovery journey? Will the rise of digital-first travellers drive the…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongEuro Watch: A year into the war in Ukraine, is Russia planning for maximum escalation?
Ukraine says Russia is preparing a major new offensive to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine, and warned that it could begin as soon…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongUnder the Radar: Coffee chat with the GM of Starbucks Singapore - on price elasticity, business positioning strategy amid inflation, customer rewards programme, relationship with workers road ahead for the next 3-5 years, possibility of community concept cafes
Coffee is on the agenda for us today, with Starbucks Corporation set to unveil its results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 today. According to Yahoo…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongCulture Club: How investing in the Metaverse can help your small business
The metaverse scene in Singapore is heating up, with major players, such as banks and telcos mobilising their massive capital to develop metaverse…
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Sports Minutes: Done deals on January deadline day
Today we look at the winners losers and questionable transfers on football deadline transfer day. Plus what should you look our for when choosing a personal…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Likelihood of STI ending the week in the green, levels to watch, Outlook for Reits and Fed’s rate decision, Short calls on the Singapore dollar
The Singapore Straits Times Index ended the first two days of the week in the negative territory. So what is the likelihood of the STI ending in the green…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn The Spotlight: How digital transformation is redesigning trade finance
The digitalisation of trade finance looks for opportunities to bring technologies to the world of trade. It is also to reduce reliance on paper-based and…
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Regional Roundup: Highlights from Anwar Ibrahim's visit to Singapore
From Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s one day visit to Singapore to the Myanmar junta preparing for elections. Dr. Felix Tan, Political Observer…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongUnder The Radar: OUE Commercial Reit’s CEO on FY 2022 earnings, Distribution to investors, Office occupancy, Rebranding of Hilton Singapore and MICE recovery, China’s tough COVID-19 policy and its potential long-term damage to leasing sentiment upon relaxation
In our first episode of Under The Radar, we talk about REIT managers and what’s next as they put their FY 2022 earnings behind them. Our guest for today is…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongPassing the Baton: How to help SMEs with no succession plan continue their brand and business legacy
Imagine having spent one’s entire life - time and money - into building a business, with the assumption or hope that their children will want to inherit and…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: US Fed’s decision, Earnings expectations from McDonald’s, General Motors and more, BoE and ECB rate decisions, China’s budget deficit jumped to a record 8.96 trillion yuan
The US and China economies are in focus today with Federal Reserve officials set to meet later today to decide on their next monetary policy move. Observers…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: The Watch Collector vs The Secondary Market Analyst - Watches to Collect vs Watches to Invest
We’re going to talk all about watches today. According to a new industrial report,, sales of second-hand luxury watches will overtake new models within a…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: Teachers strike in the UK; Energy crisis in Europe and Blinken's visit to China
In the Spotlight on Prime Time, Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish speak with Jonathan Frewin, Senior Journalist with BBC World Service Partner Hub in London to…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Uzbekistan as a market, Areas of collaboration with Singapore firms, What can Singapore firms expect when entering Uzbekistan?
Today we’re going to set our sights on a market that may be fairly unique to our listeners - Uzbekistan! You might be wondering why we are talking about…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: How are the US and China economies doing so far in 2023?
In the Spotlight on Prime Time, we focus on two major economies - the US and China. Timothy Go is joined by Pushan Dutt, Professor of economics and political…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongBuilding more sustainable smart cities: How technology can transform industries
Accounting for about 75% of global primary energy use, cities are by far the biggest producer of greenhouse gas emissions. Given that they are the main source…
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ST: The Big Story, 27 Jan - Will there be further cooling measures in 2023?
Prices in the Housing Board resale market rose at a slower pace of 2.3 per cent in the last quarter of 2022, compared with 2.6 percent in the third quarter. It…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: From Singapore's Urban Landscape to Bali's Idyllic Retreat: A digital nomad’s story
Since the start of the pandemic, the number of digital nomads with traditional jobs has more than tripled. More than 50% of the world’s digital nomads in 2022…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Outlook for Singapore’s banking sector and Singapore banks’ dollar Tier 2 bonds in 2023, Higher interest rates on Thailand’s household debt and mortgage default rates, Possibility of Thai borrowers turning to unsecured retail products
The credit market is in focus today as tightening monetary conditions and trade tensions continue to dampen global market activity. We’ll start from home in…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: How can SMEs take on the big guys in 2023?
In May 2022, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said that helping SMEs scale up is one of Singapore’s three drivers of economic growth. Unfortunately, SMEs…
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ST: The Big Story, 25 Jan - Core consumer prices in Singapore remain at 5.1% for third straight month
Singapore's core inflation, which excludes costs of private transport and accommodation, came in at 5.1 per cent year on year in December.The measure is…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Hedge funds outlook for 2023
2022 has been a challenging year for markets as participants experience major pullbacks with their portfolios and investors struggling to protect their…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: The fintech developer’s dilemma: Keeping up with rapid change
A recent survey by Couchbase showed that 83% of IT leaders in banks, insurers and other financial services providers, are under pressure to deliver digital…
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How businesses can ensure they are authentic in their sustainability initiatives
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a necessity for corporations due to changing perspectives around the world. And yet, becoming a green company takes a…
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ST: The Big Story, 20 Jan - LTA revises COE quota calculation to reduce quarter-on-quarter supply volatility
The supply of certificates of COEs will rise by 3.4% for the period of February to April 2023, the first increase after two quarters of decline. Overall, there…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: US Producer Price Index decreased 0.5% for December, Possibility of a 25bps rate hike, Netflix and P&G reports earnings, Sectors to watch, Microsoft and Amazon layoffs
We’ll keep you up to speed with the key macroeconomic and market movements in the US as we end the week. Earlier, US producer prices out mid-week showed the…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: Cracking the code: A 19-year-old’s formula to ace your General Paper
A 19-year-old has taken a year-gap in her studies to focus on her tuition business, where she has cracked the code to help fellow peers ace that GP paper. In…
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ST: The Big Story, 19 Jan - New Zealand will have a new PM by Feb 7 after Jacinda Ardern's resignation
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's shock announcement on Thursday (Jan 19) of her resignation has stunned the country and even her party. She said she…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongTech Talk: Asia Pacific sees surge in cyber attacks, accounting for 11% of global cyber attacks
Ransomware attacks remain the number one cyber threat in the Asia Pacific, with groups adopting corporate structures and using zero-day vulnerabilities and…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Global cotton shortage and how Brazilian producers are navigating challenges, Production and price forecast, Licensing on sustainable sourcing
With Chinese New Year just round the corner, many of us may still be shopping for something to wear over the festive season. But did you know that the world is…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: The Bottle and the Bank: How wine investing can help you combat inflation and grow your wealth?
To combat inflationary pressure, many people are looking at investment options. And some are raising a glass to wine investments. So from the bottle to the…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongSMEs' future-readiness in 2023: How the right talent can empower smaller firms
As we enter a new year, small and medium enterprises, as well as mid-sized companies, are looking at a challenging future with geopolitical tensions…
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ST: The Big Story, 18 Jan - It’s now easier to spot firms that support better pay for lower-wage workers
Consumers and businesses can now more easily spot companies that support better wages for lower-wage workers to buy goods and services from, by looking out for…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: China’s GDP up 3% in 2022, China’s reopening, Lunar New Year Migration, Authorities’ buying of “golden shares” in tech giants, Property investment data, China’s population decline for the first time in over 60 years
The Chinese economy and market is at the front and centre of our discussion today, after the country announced its GDP figures earlier in the week. If you…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: Hawker Centres of Tomorrow: Leading the Way in Sustainability and Compostability
Countries at U.N talks in Uruguay in December, discussed a future global plastics treaty which would cut pollution, with the hope of doing so entirely by 2040…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongPowering Your Property: Singapore private home rents set to climb another 10-15% this year
A breakneck surge in private residential rents hammered Singapore’s tenants with increases of about 21% in the first nine months of 2022, and the pain looks…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: IMF on global GDP, What to expect from the World Economic Forum, BoJ and Bank Indonesia’s rate decisions
We’ll put the focus on the state of the global economy today. According to the International Monetary Fund, severe fragmentation of the global economy could…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: What to expect from China's new year travel rush? More weapons for Ukraine? and a high profile trial in Belarus.
In the Spotlight on Prime Time every Monday, Bharati Jagdish and Timothy Go will speak with our friends from the BBC in London on some of the top stories they…
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ST: The Big Story, 16 Jan - Over 50% of Singaporeans willing to accept less pay for work-life balance
An Institute of Policy Studies survey shows that different generations value different aspects of their jobs. Over 50 per cent would be willing to accept less…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongHoning sustainability skill as we chart towards SG Green Plan 2030
Employers across Singapore appear to be investing in talent when it comes to sustainability-related initiatives. Prime Time's Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Thematic ETFs Investing, ETF trends, Samsung Asset Management’s launch of Bitcoin Futures ETFs in Hong Kong
We’ll talk all about exchange traded funds today and in particular, we’re going to be talking about thematic ETFs. These are ETFs that are positioned to…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: Will you opt for a boutique hotel with co-living features?
Hotels are increasingly being turned into co-living spaces in markets, where institutional investors are hunting for cheaper alternatives to residential…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: US CPI declined month-on-month for the first time in over 2.5 years, Possibility of 25bps rate hike by US Fed, Bank of Korea’s rate increase and implications on imported inflation, China’s exports and Q4 GDP, Expectations for Singapore’s NODX for December
We deep dived into the latest happenings in the US, South Korea, China and Singapore for today. In the US, consumer prices fell month-on-month for the first…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongHelping investors assess biodiversity, deforestation risk in portfolios
Biodiversity loss has been extensive over the last 50 years, and the impacts go far beyond the ecological concerns. Certain companies face real financial risks…
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ST: The Big Story, 13 Jan - UMNO's Zahid takes aim at rivals in general assembly opening
UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has defended his party’s strategy during the 15th General Election, urging members to stop finding faults and instead think…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: What is retail media and why is it important for marketers in 2023?
Southeast Asia has seen a burgeoning retail media growth with giants such as Shopee and Tokopedia. But with the bumper shopping days quarter over, such as…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongWhat lies ahead for the global travel industry in 2023?
If you thought travel came back with a vengeance last year, you’re not wrong. Air traffic hit about 70% of pre-pandemic levels globally. While we’re thrilled…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: With China's reopening, what can businesses expect in terms of growth and expansion opportunities?
China has reopened its borders to international visitors for the first time since it imposed travel restrictions in March 2020. This comes ahead of the Chinese…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongCareer 360: A guide to Singapore's career & salary outlook 2023
Singapore’s labour market is expected to remain resilient in spite of economic headwinds for the first quarter of the year, while wage growth in 2023 is…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Shell’s take on the evolving mobility-retail landscape, Impact of EV charging on decreasing fuel sales, Zesting retail offerings, Partnerships with BYD, McDonalds, Starbucks and Adidas, Plans for 2023
The mobility-retail landscape is at the heart of our discussion on the segment today. The global retail industry as we know it, has been fundamentally…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: How can we reduce our carbon footprint in our offices?
The past two years have been a uniquely challenging year. And as we start looking forward to 2023, when most have returned to the office, this could be a good…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongPowering Your Property: Is it a good time to invest in foreign property?
Australia has long been a popular location for Singaporeans to buy investment properties, with cities like Perth and Melbourne being particularly popular. But…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: US Non-farm Payrolls on stock movement, US December CPI and Fed’s February meeting expectations, Major bank earnings predictions, Bed Bath & Beyond’s outlook, Apple’s diversification away from China, Tesla’s price cuts and US companies to watch for 2023
We’ll keep you up to date with all you need to know with regard to the US Stock Market today. Markets received a much needed boost late last week after…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongWhat lies ahead for venture investing and markets in 2023?
2022 turned out to be a chaotic year for the world's venture investors as war, political tensions and inflation crimped deal flows, stymied fundraising and…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: Should you get a copy of Harry's memoir? and what to expect from Joe Biden's visit to Mexico
In the Spotlight on Prime Time, Timothy Go and Bharati Jagdish speak with Rich Preston , Senior World News Reporter/Presenter on the highly anticipated and…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Conversation with Gridless CEO Erik Hersman - using bitcoin mining to unlock renewable energy in Africa, benefits for rural communities, Seed investment from Jack Dorsey’s Block
Bitcoin mining has long been seen as a form of energy intensive process. According to a Bloomberg report, some studies estimate that the annual energy…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongIn the Spotlight: What should be your marketing strategies to maximize revenue in 2023?
The marketing world moves at the speed of light. To succeed in the fast-paced marketing world and maintain a sense of relevance with your audience, it's vital…
Your Way Home with Hongbin JeongMarket View: Is the Singapore stock market boring? Companies to watch, Comba Telecom System’s secondary listing on the SGX, Spike in Creative Technologies’ shares
The Singapore stock market is in focus today as we wrap up the first business week of 2023. Some market watchers may find the Singapore market a little boring…