Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong

It is the time of the year where global investment firm Temasek releases its annual financial results. To this end, the company reported a Net Portfolio Value of S$518 billion on a mark-to-market basis as at 31 March 2026, representing a doubling of its portfolio over the past decade.  Long-term returns remained resilient, with the 20-year Total Shareholder Return at 6.8% and the 10-year TSR coming in at 7.1%. The five-year TSR stood at 4.6%, weighed down by headwinds in China’s capital markets from 2021 to 2024.  Meanwhile, the one-year TSR was at 10.5%, with NPV rising by S$49 billion on the year thanks to the strong showing of Singapore-based Temasek Portfolio Companies and realised gains from key divestments, though the figure was tempered by the situation in the Middle East. Beyond the present, the global investor announced a major restructuring in August 2025, where it set up three wholly owned entities called: (1) Temasek Singapore, (2) Temasek Global Investments and (3) Temasek Partnership Solutions to target three distinct portfolio segments to tackle macroeconomic changes in an increasingly uncertain world. The three entities came into effect in April 2026. But how does the structural overhaul help Temasek sharpen differentiated strategies to achieve better outcomes? Where are the opportunities for the firm looking ahead? In her fifth year covering the Temasek Review, finance presenter Chua Tian Tian headed down to Temasek’s office for this “On the Go” Special episode of Under the Radar, where she posed the questions to Png Chin Yee, Chief Financial Officer, Temasek International and President, Temasek Singapore.

A Teochew film has reignited Singapore's long-running debate over dialects and the conversation has now reached Parliament. Following the public response to Dear You, IMDA is reviewing its film classification framework for dialect films, while the Government says there is scope to expand the space for dialects, even as it continues to uphold the importance of Mandarin. Is Singapore's language policy entering a new chapter? What prompted this shift after decades of dialect restrictions? And if dialects are given more space in our media landscape, what could that mean for culture, identity and the future of the Speak Mandarin Campaign? On The Big Story, Hongbin Jeong speaks with Dr Daniel Chan, Assistant Dean (Undergraduate Studies), Office of Programmes, at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to find out more.

On Your Agenda, Hongbin Jeong launches a brand-new listener-driven segment by diving into a relationship dilemma that's guaranteed to split opinions. One listener shares her experience with her boyfriend's gym friend, who repeatedly crossed boundaries despite knowing he was in a committed relationship, from inappropriate physical contact and flirtatious jokes to private messages that left her questioning whether it was ever 'just friendship'. Is someone who knowingly ignores a couple's boundaries entirely at fault? Or should the boyfriend have shut things down much earlier? More importantly, at what point does 'we're just friends' become disrespectful to a relationship?   Got a story? Send it over! It's completely anonymous, and it may be featured on an upcoming Tuesday. Send it here.

Singapore is ageing, and with that comes a growing focus on not just adding years to life, but life to those years. While many older adults prioritise activities like walking, experts say maintaining muscle strength is just as important for preserving mobility, preventing falls and staying independent. As more seniors embrace strength training through community initiatives and personal coaching, is it time to rethink the role it plays in healthy ageing? On The Agenda, Hongbin Jeong speaks to Hadrian Ro, Head Coach and Personal Trainer at LEVEL Singapore to find out if strength training is becoming essential for healthy ageing.

On What's Trending, Hongbin Jeong and Nadiah Koh unpack the viral story of a software developer who built an AI tool to identify which colleagues were stressing him out the most, using his heart rate, fitness tracker and work calendar. It started as a joke, but it raises a surprisingly serious question: if AI could tell you exactly what or who is draining your energy at work, would you really want to know?

VIP sales at new condo launches have long been part of Singapore's private property market, giving selected buyers early access to units before public bookings begin. But the practice is now under scrutiny after reports that property agents bought up to 20% of units at some developments before launch day, raising concerns about fairness and transparency. Are ordinary homebuyers being placed at a disadvantage? Why do developers conduct VIP sales in the first place? And could the rules soon change? On The Big Story, Hongbin Jeong speaks with Nicholas Mak, Chief Research Officer at MOGUL.sg, to unpack how VIP condo sales work, who really gets first dibs, and what the controversy means for prospective homebuyers.

On What's Trending, Hongbin Jeong and Nadiah Koh ask a question every working Singaporean can relate to: How long is your daily commute and how far would you go to avoid it? The pair unpack a viral Reddit post from an intern facing a brutal four-hour daily commute between Choa Chu Kang and Changi Airport, who wondered if sleeping overnight at Changi Airport might actually make more sense than travelling home every day.  

What was once considered a solo sport has become a social phenomenon, with hundreds of young Singaporeans lacing up before sunrise and after work, not just to clock kilometers, but to make friends, meet new people and build a sense of community. So what's driving the running club boom? Is it really about fitness, or are running clubs becoming the new way to socialize in an increasingly disconnected world? Hongbin Jeong speaks with Andee Chua, founder of OFF:FORM Running Club, to find out why so many people are swapping nights out for early morning runs and whether this trend is here to stay.

They were born in the same year, but their football journeys have taken very different turns. Saifullah Akbar and Nazhim Harman - both part of the class of '99 at the Singapore Sports School - sit down with Sports Minutes to talk about career crossroads, family legacies and finding purpose through a project that somehow made it out of the group chat! Got a story to tell? Get in touch! raushan@sph.com.sg

Today we’re going to take you through the ins and outs of a technology company that makes the personal computers we use at work and at home.  But here’s the twist. The company was founded all the way back in 1939 when there were no fully electronic computers, and where Palo Alto, Califonia was not a Silicon Valley hub, but an area filled with fruit orchards.  Make a guess – bingo if you’ve guessed HP! HP’s founding story takes us back to the 1930s, when American culture was dominated by sound film and radio, made possible by electronic signalling.  Inspired by the zeitgeist, two Stanford University friends, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard decided to work part-time building devices in a Palo Alto garage. In 1938 and with only US$538 in capital, the duo invented the HP Model 200A, which was an oscillator that was used to test sound equipment.  What was worthy of note was how The Walt Disney Company actually bought 8 of the HP oscillators to get movie theatres ready to screen Fantasia in 1940.  The company was formalised as Hewlett-Packard in the 1940s, as a result of a coin toss to decide whether Bill or Dave’s name comes first, and grew in success over the years as the electronic industry expanded. But why are we speaking to HP you might ask? Well, per data by Statista, HP is a market leader in the global PC space, coming in at second place with a market share of 27.2 per cent in 2025. But what is the ongoing demand for PCs like?  Also, what will the future of work look like with AI-processes embedded in employees’ workflows, and what does this mean for HP when it comes to new product designs and launches? How will AI adoption augment the firm’s growth trajectory globally and right here in Southeast Asia? Speaking of Southeast Asia, HP chose Singapore to launch Garage 2.0, an initiative where the technology company lends its engineering expertise and business insights to accelerate the growth of AI startups. But why did it choose to launch the programme in sunny Singapore? How important is Singapore or Southeast Asia to the firm? On Under the Radar, finance presenter Chua Tian Tian posed these questions to Koh Kong Meng, Managing Director, Southeast Asia and Singapore, HP.