Temasek fails to persuade over connection with rise in CPF minimum sum
Temasek's answer to the public via the ST forum is economical with the truth to say the least. CPF may be invested elsewhere and not directly into Temasek or vice -versa but it all comes from the same pot which is government capital or surpluses.
When immigration stops being the elephant in the room and becomes the great white shark in your parliament.
On April 23 the Straits Times (ST) hosted a roundtable to sit around and discuss a survey of people’s perceptions of key policies, three years after the 2011 General Election. The panelists […]
A Fresh Round of Wayang about Competition?
Today the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) announced that they were looking to increase competition in the mobile sector by expanding the role of Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO). […]
An Familiar Tale of An Ordinary Singaporean and His Problems with An Unsympathetic HDB Bureaucracy
Recently someone posted to my timeline on Facebook an account of another person who claimed to have received unsympathetic treatment from HDB. I have inserted a screenshot of the Facebook […]
An Open Letter to the Chairman of the Securities Industry Council
18A Smith Street Singapore 058932 25 March 2014 J Y M Pillay Chairman Securities Industry Council 25th Storey, MAS Building 10 Shenton Way Singapore 079117 Dear Sir, […]
Temasek Loses the Plot
Last week I pointed out * that it made no sense for Temasek to pay a huge premium for Olam’s equity when Olam’s short-term debt refinancing was likely to be problematical, […]
SGX denies wrongdoing and possibility of insider trading in Olam takeover.
In my blog yesterday I wrote about the inexplicably high offer that Temasek had made to buy out Olam, a Singaporean commodities firm hemorrhaging cash and burdened by debt repayments […]
Questions for the Prime Minister’s Wife on Temasek’s Olam Acquisition
My suspicions were raised yesterday by the news that Temasek has put up $2.1 billion dollars to buy out any remaining shares they do not already own in Singaporean commodities […]
Madame L from Pioneer Generation Package to Cardboard Collecting Pittance
IMG_0193 With Budget 2014 fresh in our minds I thought that now would be a good time to update my readers on the case of Madam L. You can read […]
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 