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Her father is Thio Ghim Hock. He was a senior director in HPL and when there used to go around preaching to everyone. Ong beng Seng used to make fun of him in public. he fought often with Ong beng Seng and left to join the Lippoo Grp which are another bunch of crooks tured born again holier...

Saturday April 18, 2009 JB’s son steps up to do battle Insight: Down South By SEAH CHIANG NEE More young professionals with good credentials are trickling towards the opposition camp, auguring well for the growth of democracy in Singapore. SINGAPOREANS have long had an insipid sense of...

Correction to that: He was foreign educated Sri lankan doctor..he must have been either out of his mind thinking of marrying her .. or was a brilliant opportunist who saw her as his passport to endless riches...

S'pore fares worst in SE Asia BANGKOK - SINGAPORE will be Southeast Asia's weakest economy, shrinking nearly 5 per cent this year, while Thailand faces its worst recession in 11 years, reflecting a collapse in exports across Asia, a Reuters poll shows. The Philippines and Indonesia will...

Better buy USD….. sin dollar gonna go down.. S'pore, HK on tax blacklist They are on OECD’s list of non-cooperative tax centres, reported a French newspaper. -Reuters Wed, Mar 11, 2009 Reuters PARIS, March 11 (Reuters) - Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, Singapore and Hong Kong...

International Herald Tribune For East Asia, crisis prompts a rethinking of dependence on exports By Keith Bradsher Thursday, March 5, 2009 SINGAPORE: As trade withers around the world and freighters sit empty, some of the most vulnerable economies are proving to be small, international...

Saturday February 28, 2009 It’s a race against bad news Insight: Down South By SEAH CHIANG NEE-The Star Indications are that the government will call a snap polls this year, although the PAP still holds the mandate till 2010. HOW do Singaporeans, who have been raised to expect the best...

Heard from grapevine that they want to retrench GLC staff and govt servants big time but dare not do before elections as they need their vote. They want to have the elections over with and than go in with sharp knife to cut bloated GLC and public sector head count and also salaries. We talking...

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Aircrat Reg is VP-BTB owed by Ong beng Seng. You can view photos of actual photo here: http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6303977&nseq=0

Saturday February 7, 2009 Unease over nation’s assets Insight Down South By SEAH CHIANG NEE-THe STAR The need to dip into foreign reserves for part of a S$20.4bil (RM49.1bil) stimulus package raises questions on the government’s global investment policy. AS RECESSION deepens and foreign...

Temasek lost almost US$2 billion of a badly-timed US$3 billion in Shin Corp at a peak of 49.25 baht(Shin shares are now trading at around 15 baht) in 2006. This state-linked investment company committed S$401 million in ASX -listed ABC Learning Centres at near the peak price of A$7.30 and...

It is highly likely that the greedy ministers would have put a lot of their multi million dollar salaries into these kind of investments, advised obviously by their super duper personal investors, in the hope of making millions more. If Steven Speilberg and many other savvy investors lost...

This guy Steven Yeo, is a typical civil servant who thinks world owes him a living. He was in EDB for a while, where he was meant to be fast tracked into something or other but somehow did not happen and he was shunted into some senior positon in SSC, when he knew nothing about sports. I had...

With improving relations between the mainland and taiwan, guess where mainlanders will prefer going to other than Macau! Say bye bye to IRs..... -------------------------------------------------------------- Taiwan News - 04 Jan 2009 Casinos given green light in Taiwan [Taiwan]...

Slowly but surely others are chipping away at our air hub status and our highly paid administrators have no answers. In the north, what MAS could not do, Air Asia is doing it, helping to estd KL as an air hub. With more long haul kangaroo routes flights bypassing Spore, what answers have...

I suspect that Israel is trying to provoke Iran or Hezbollah in the north to enter the fray so that they can justify the attcak on Iran, something which they have been planning for a long time. As time is running out until 20 jan when Obama takes over, and he less likely to take Israeli shit...

Perfect excuse to close shop! :D --------------------------------------------- Singapore Flyer halted The wheel had stopped after a fire broke out in the Flyer's control room. -- PHOTO: BH THE Singapore Flyer grounded to a halt on Tuesday's evening, leaving over 100 passengers stranded...