THE TEMASEK REVIEW

By Regina Leung from South China Morning Post Over a hundred protesters outside the Legislative Council called for a minimum wage law on Wednesday as lawmakers debated the controversial issue that has divided the city’s business sector and labour groups. The protesters, many of whom were low-paid workers, said the... 

The Singapore Government and the U.S. State Department have clashed over the issue of trafficking workers and prostitutes. In recent days the authorities of the city-state have published a document in response to criticisms of non-compliance contained in the annual U.S. report on human trafficking. “Singapore-reads... 

Chosun Ilbo, 22 June 2010 North Korean leader Kim Jong-il “gives regular tactical advice during matches using mobile phones that are not visible to the naked eye,” the team’s manager Kim Jong-hun told ESPN Thursday. The coach dutifully told the sports channel that Kim Jong-il developed the James-Bond technology... 

Reuters, 19 June 2010 The Nobel peace prize winner has spent 15 of the last 21 years in detention because of her fight for democracy in the army-ruled country, also known as Burma, and is under house arrest in her home in the former capital, Yangon. U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday renewed a call for Myanmar’s... 

The Malaysian Insider, 17 June 2010 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today continued his push for a siege mentality among the Malays by pointing out that the community’s political leaders were now under the thumb of “the others” and need to be united again for the sake of its future. Writing in his blog today, the former prime... 

Chosun Ilbo, 16 June 2010 North Korea operates 40,000 special forces troops, including the 11th or “Storm” Corps whose mission is to infiltrate South Korea and create havoc in case of war. It also has around 10,000 naval special forces and around 5,000 air force soldiers who can cross the border if a war breaks... 

By Albert Wong from South China Morning Post, 7 June 2010 Heckled, abused and accused of selling out the people of Hong Kong, Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen yesterday hit back at protesters, saying they were in the minority and should not obstruct the “political reform vessel” from setting sail. On a... 

Chosun Ilbo, 5 June 2010 A two-star Army general is in custody on suspicion of leaking military secrets to North Korea. The man is the first active-duty general arrested on spying charges in decades. A government official on Thursday said the general is “under investigation by the Defense Security Command and the... 

Reuters, 2 June 2010 China repeatedly expresses fears about tensions on the Korean peninsula, but Premier Wen Jiabao took that point further by spelling out that any clash could have serious reverberations for the region, not least his own country. North Korea has been blamed by an international investigation for sinking... 

Reuters, 2 June 2010 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said today he and his powerful party No. 2 would resign after a slide in the polls threatened their party’s chances in an election expected next month. Calls have built up in Hatoyama’s Democratic Party for him to step down to revive the party’s fortunes...