THE TEMASEK REVIEW

The Straits Times, the government propaganda mouthpiece, as expected, has been giving glowing news coverage to the Youth Olympic Games(YOG). But true to its colour, it chose to withhold incidents of inferior food supply to the thousands of volunteers and consequent food poisoning among some of them from its reporting. The... 

Alan Greenspan, Stock Market Perspectives, Warren Buffet and Contrary Views. Post my last write up “Update Global economies heading for turbulence, are we in trouble going forward?” published on  Temasek Review 24 July 2010, stocks again flew up north in the direction of Arctic  as the economic weather vane pointed... 

It will not be an exaggeration to say that Singaporeans woke up today to the mind-boggling news of the National Day award of the Distinguished Service Order to the Chairman, PUB Mr. Tan Gee Paw ostensibly for solving Singapore’s perennial flood problems. Singaporeans cannot be faulted for not believing that the DSO... 

The question that is being asked frequently in the internet is:Are Singaporeans paying for monkeys? By right monkeys deserve to be paid peanuts but how come we are paying millions. The recent occurrences have not given the public the confidence of a government that holds high the concerns of the public. The golden silence... 

THE STOCK MARKET PERSPECTIVE The  first week past this initial write-up “ Global economies are heading for turbulence – ARE WE IN TROUBLE GOING FORWARD” dated 5th July 2010 saw global markets rose sharply, ahead of the US corporate reporting season, confounding market analysts. European markets rallied on BP’s... 

As outraged netizens it is quite natural to vent our wraths on the arrogant PAP government from time to time for the innumerable injustices by it. It is equally natural for the government to promote an international benevolent feature in order to divert some of the local broadsides. It is for its political capital that... 

The question that is being asked frequently in the internet is:Are Singaporeans paying for monkeys? By right monkeys deserve to be paid peanuts but how come we are paying millions. The recent occurrences have not given the public the confidence of a government that holds high the concerns of the public. The golden silence... 

Feedback: In engineering terms, it refers to data collected at all stages of a work process that is used to ensure that the process is running according to specifications so as to achieve a desired outcome. If any of the data collected should fall outside the specified parameters then corrective action to ensure the defective... 

Singapore has seen a massive influx of foreigners in recent years, mostly lured in by the promise of (by the standards of the countries they come from) high-paying jobs. The country’s population has now swelled to over five million, 36% of whom are foreigners. This has resulted in a host of social problems, ranging from... 

Government or government-linked organizations have been making the news very regularly over the last few years, very often for the wrong reasons. Unsurprisingly, these failings have caused a fair amount of disquiet among the general population and have seriously undermined public confidence in the Civil Service and government...