Temasek Holdings scores with Barclays!

I’m very sure everyone associates Barclays with the English Premiership. It proved to be a lucrative partnership for the Premiership and a fantastic advertising campaign for Barclays.
However, such sweet gains did not extend to generous and kind-looking Ho Ching of Temasek Holdings.
Reuters reports:
LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) – Singapore state investor Temasek sold its stake [...]

pathetic ASEAN silence and pathetic Singapore’s dismay

Burma is fast becoming a complete embarrasment of ASEAN with its latest trumped up charges against the democratically elected and rightful Prime Minister of Burma Ms Aung San Suu Kyi. The other countries around the world are already planning to take action but what about ASEAN and Singapore?
European foreign ministers were locked in discussion about [...]

Wong Kan Seng: see I told you I am right.

Back then, when interviewed about the progress on Mas Selemat Kastari’s escape, Minister Of Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng had this to say:
He’s either here, or not here.
Guess what? After everyone’s repeated sneers at him online and offline, Wong Kan Seng is actually right! Hip hip hurray!Well done! 200 months performance bonus for you,Mr Wong. [...]

Japanese translator hosting top North Korean Legislator

Think that happened in Japan? Nope.
SINGAPORE, May 6 (Xinhua) — Kim Yong Nam, the top legislator of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), kicked off a three-day working visit to Singapore on Wednesday.
According to Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kim will be calling on Singapore’s President S R Nathan [...]

senile old man.

When one needs proof that time and tide wait for no man, one has only to look at the only founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew. At a ripe old age of 86, when one should be enjoying life, our old man is sprouting rubbish and antagonizing our neighbours while making a fool of himself, [...]

having Minister Mentor God as my father and Ho Ching as my wife is a pain in the ass.

LHL: I think the way you put it is not the way things work in Singapore. The Minister Mentor is chairman of GIC not because he’s my father. It’s because he’s the best man for the job and he has been chairman since he was prime minister. Ho Ching is CEO of Temasek not because [...]

The Myth of the PAP Singapore’s Miracle part II

Part I is here.
Many people argued that PAP created the environment that led to the boost in manufacturing sector. Let’s see. During the same period that Singapore experienced tremendous growth, countries such as South Korea and Hong Kong grew even faster than us, without a PAP in charge. It was really a no-brainer to leverage [...]

The Houdini of Predictions

Just when I remarked yesterday that Minister Mentor God Lee Kuan Yew disappeared, he pops up like a jack in the box today. Let’s hear the Oracle of Singapore’s gems of wisdom once again.
In an interview with Reuters on Wednesday, he said the Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) had bought ‘too early’ into global [...]

Silence is Golden for the disappearing Minister Mentor God

Did anyone realise that we have never heard from our Minister Mentor God Lee Kuan Yew since the recent developments in the saga between Citibank and Government Investment Corp, Singapore?
For those out in the cold on Citibank and GIC, and still believes GIC is holding onto part of a exciting and un-paralled banking franchise that [...]

nationalised already, still will have long term not?

Dearest Minister Mentor God Lee Kuan Yew,
In such dark times, I am writing to you in search of some form of sage advice. You must know the cure to all these problems that has befell Singapore since you single-handledly built Singapore from Third World to First, and that you are without doubt, the longest ever [...]