THE TEMASEK REVIEW

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... 

Today’s more knowledgeable, diversified new generation which is tech-savvy and better informed demands more, and expects more from society. BY THE day, Singapore – in seemingly perpetual transformation – is full of surprises. Hardly a year of being hit by one of its worst ever crises, the economy has surprisingly... 

By Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Voting RP blog Singapore’s per capita GDP is one of the highest in the world but at the same time Freedom House rates Singapore as near the bottom of the partially free countries with a score of 4 (where 1 is most free) for civil liberties and 5 for political rights. However what is noteworthy is... 

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... 

When you run a business which is almost close to collapse and when exposed for fraud spells the end of your control, what do you do? First, you ignore all the feedback that affects the workers about their daily lives and suppress their wages as much as possible despite the increase in costs of preparing for work in basics... 

At a dialogue session organised by the Economic Strategies Committee (ESC) yesterday, Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam claimed that one of the targets of the ESC is to increase the median wages of Singapore worker by one-third from $2,400 today to an inflation-adjusted $3,100 in year 2010. This represents an average... 

In the past, the minorities in Singapore often feels marginalized as companies often seek job candidates who are ‘Bilingual’ which, in Singapore, is a colloquial term for ‘Chinese-Speaking’. The suspicion they had about Companies employing based on racial profile have always been dismissed by the ruling party and... 

There has been a flurry of reports in the past few months reported in the global media but not in Singapore’s mainstream media of a possible bubble forming in China. We may be seeing another bubble about to burst caused by China’s real estate and infrastructure growth propped up by massive borrowings from China’s... 

People have always wondered why is it seems easier for foreigners to get work visas or permits nowadays. The possible reason could be the trade agreements our leaders so eagerly signed on, to increase Singapore’s Growth Domestic Product (which their bonuses and salary increments are tied to) without a thought for... 

Due to the bright idea of some clown of a minister who believes that local banks have to merge and globalized to survive, DBS Bank took over control of POSB Bank in the late 1998. As one opposition leader put it, it was the mother of all bank ‘mergers’. So what was the result of this merger to POSB depositors? To rationalized...