Tag: Keppel

Singapore is Reeling from the Latest Money Laundering Revelations

If you’ve been reading my blog you will know that Singapore’s blasé attitude towards abiding by legal norms and processes is a theme of mine. You may remember the Panama […]

kjeyaretnam August 19, 2023 2 Comments

By Hiding All Financial Information about Its Ruling Family Singapore Gets an Undeserved Reputation for Incorruptibility

I just saw a news report on the BBC that the U.K. PM, Rishi Sunak, is facing questions over shares his wife holds in a childcare agency that could benefit […]

Animal Farm Thrives in Singapore: Inexplicable Decision Not To Prosecute the Keppel Six Demonstrates That Some Are More Equal Than Others

Article 12 of our Constitution states that all are equal before the law and all are entitled to the equal protection of the law. The PAP ignore this just as […]

UNfactually: How the Singapore Government Tries to Bully Citizens into Accepting Misleading Statistics and Fake News

With the election is supposedly just around the corner and the new Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) just having become law, the Prime Minister must have been […]

Will He Stay or Will He Go?

I for one have always been sceptical of the assumption that Lee Hsien Loong would step down as PM when he reaches 70. This seems to have originated in a […]

Former Keppel O & M Employees Arrested But As Usual PAP Connected Executives Are Left Untouched

News reports today in the State Times and other Government media said that at least six former executives of Keppel Corp have been arrested by CPIB in connection with the […]

Staying Clean Not A Simple Matter in Some Countries

I read with amusement the letter written to the State Times by one Francis Cheng arguing that Singapore MNCs should be allowed to pay bribes as otherwise foreign competitors will […]

A Shocking Window Into The Institutional Corruption That Pervades Singapore Inc

Quietly over Christmas the US Justice Department announced that it had reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Keppel Offshore and Marine. Under the agreement Keppel O & M, a unit […]

Temasek’s Portfolio is Probably Down 20% Already and the Chinese Stock Market Rout May Just Be Getting Started

Back in July last year I did some rather basic analysis of Temasek’s results for the year ended 31 March 2015 and for the performance of its portfolio since then […]

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). […]