THE TEMASEK REVIEW

Original Blog Written by Alex Au HERE “渔网已广阔地散布了”，海峡时报如此报导25位经济战略委员会(Economic Strategies Committee)成员的任命，他们被委任去识别出“新加坡经济成长的新方式”。25位成员之中九位是政府部长。 [这里读] 第十位来自新加坡金融管理局(MAS)，而第十一位是人民行动党(PAP)议员，代表政府控制的全国职工縂会(NTUC)。 其他成员是企业的领导人，其中之“二名成员…对首要的中国经济有详细的知识“，海峡时报如此报导。 我粗略地看一下伴随着这侧新闻报导的委员会成员名单。... 

This was what we saw when we arrived early in the morning, a shit building that had been neglected for over 40 years /  a team was sent to clean the building before inserting sensors.           Several broken windows had to be replaced / loose windows realigned and structure rivetted - Trajan and Kadjal. They seem... 

By Olinda Brazil from Malaysiakini It is very amusing to see how Malaysians (probably of the minority races) have spasms of ecstasy when referring to Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) in Malaysian forums. From across the border in Malaysia, Singapore seems like Wonderland and LKY like a benevolent god. As a Chinese Singaporean, born of... 

By Nopporn Wong-Anan SINGAPORE, June 28 (Reuters) – Resourceful, but resource-scarce, Singapore has nimbly changed with the times in its first 50 years of self-governance. But the global economic slowdown has thrown the trade-dependent city-state into its worst recession and issues from unemployment to huge losses... 

By Eugene Yeo In the past few weeks, I have been busy hunting around for an apartment for my family which partly explains why I am unable to post as frequently as before. In spite of the economic slowdown, the property market shows no signs of cooling albeit a slight dip in the beginning of the year. The prices have since... 

Written by Darkness of the Brotherhood – As we preview the carnage of the global economic meltdown – and even asses how well or badly we as a nation & people may have faired against the maelstrom – this prompts us all to ask: do we need to change the way we think if we want to remain on the top of the heap?... 

The case of David Hartanto Wijaya, an Indonesian student who died at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in March, is entering a crucial stage, but the family continues to suspect an unfair process. David’s family filed a request in April to the Singaporean coroner court to consider the case as a murder,... 

From Dr Mahathir’s blog 1. I read somewhere that the Singapre Parliament made up of 82 PAP (People’s Action Party) members and two opposition (made bankrupt by the Singapore Government) have just passed a new law which defines one person as an assembly. Before according to Singapore laws, 5 people would constitute... 

By Josh Hong from Malaysiakini More than a week after Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew had visited Malaysia, Dr Mahathir Mohamad remains bitter. In his blog entry, the former prime minister ridicules the passage of a bill in the island state that defines one person as an assembly. Mahathir’s intention... 

From The Newsroom Team Lawyer Chia Ti Lik, who stood as a Workers’ Party candidate in East Coast GRC during the last general election has expressed his desire to retire from politics. Writing on his blog, Chia wrote that he was feeling “depressed” and drained by his work which was compounded by ongoing...