Author: Yunita - Singapore

Yunita Ong is a property reporter at The Business Times, Singapore’s only business paper which has a daily reach of 94 000 on the web and in print. She has graduated with a Masters in Business and Economics Journalism at Columbia University in the City of New York in 2017, and magna cum laude from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s in journalism and economics. Yunita is interested in issues around social inequality and gender empowerment. In her free time she enjoys yoga and HIIT, a good skincare routine and going to museums. Instagram: @yunitaong

Finland: a country of re-invention

Like many young people, I grew up with a piece of Finland in my pocket in the form of a Nokia mobile phone. So what happened after other companies like Apple and Google surged ahead?

We had the opportunity to hear from Lauri Oksanen, vice-president of research & technology at Nokia about where the company is now in its new phase of re-invention after it sold its business to Microsoft. Nokia is ...  (continue reading)

Curiosity brought me to Finland

Curiosity is at the heart of journalistic endeavour — it is the desire to know why things work a certain way and how that might impact people’s lives and the decisions they make, and Finland has intrigued me particularly ever since my grad school days at Columbia University in New York. In our business and economics reporting classes, we’d compare and contrast major Western economies ...  (continue reading)