From Gen Zs not saving for the future, to the growing tensions between the US and China, here are the top streamed episodes for the month of May.
The month of May saw the release of many podcasts by The Straits Times spanning a range of topics as casual as the breakdown of the popularity of the Taiwanese variety show, in Jan Lee’s How Did We Get Here – a subset of her #PopVultures series, to the hard-hitting discussion of the warming Himalayas being a water crisis for half of Asia in Nirmal Ghosh’s Green Pulse.
“I think in the future, maybe like 30 years from now, you cannot retire. I don’t think it’s fair to say something like, ‘Oh, I didn’t have this option to not retire.’ Because actually you were spending,” Mr He said.
South-east Asian countries also appreciate there is no strategic balance in the region without the US, so they will find ways to deal with whoever is in the White House, come the US Election in November, adds Mr Kausikan.“If you ask, and it’s very consistent over time, is China important? Is it going to get important? The answer across all 10 Asean countries is overwhelmingly yes.
When prices lower, customers latch on to hopes that prices will fall further and wait out, before withdrawing completely when it rises, she says.
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