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and the hakka too?

He was no scholar...nor an outstanding civil serpent...he served NS as an OR and whilst at PWD as an ordinary engineer did extended probation...his fortune was to be spotted by the right peeple. But he did have the knack of employing good subordinates and riding on their abilities. Truly a...

Peter Ong...his sister is Catherine Ong

when dotted...makes sense...esp for those with some knowledge of the protagonists...again the story of power corrupts more than either money or sex!

Hot tempered and maverick BC certainly was....he reportedly once scribbled his ORBAT in a few sheets of toilet paper...Re HSK, LY, AK and WHK they made the right decision to opt for the Admin Service...HSK ( before joining politics) and LY followed the career path of BL who left SPF as a DCP...

The irony is that just the day before this IT fiasco this "scary smart" CEO boasted in a BT article that amongst his key accomplishments since being annointed head honcho is the revamping of the flawed IT platform in DBS inherited from his equally flawed slew of previous FT CEOs...

To be balanced, he took over this job only in May last year...the root problems date far earlier...what, if anything,he achieved at MITA is another issue altogether

He was active in the grassroots at Bedok

His name is Pang Kim Hin, a nephew of Lim Kim San educated at ACS.

The haste with which each party is playing Roger the Dodger ( ministar holds BOD responsible:BOD holds CEO responsible: CEO holds the COO( who had resigned earlier ) responsible: etc etc...one really wonders if the COI will come up with anything useful or insightful....Most likely it will be...

Not that the daughter in law did not try re wresting control of SIA...apparently she wanted to show that her boys could run Silkair better when it was in the red not realising that this was deliberate financial massaging to curb jealousy of neighbouring airlines....

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/yale-university-s-endowment-returned-22-in-year-ended-june.html

Re: MHA/PAP: No person has ever been detained under ISA only for their political beli Reading between the lines...they will not follow Malaysia in repealing the Act.

Yet another view: http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=8321

I don't think anyone would care a hoot even if the activities are political and in aid of the ruling party of the day as long as it is not funded by tax payers...it is this gross "unfairness " which irks us...how can the PAP be so blind as not to realise this and keep on defending the PA?

In the "confessional" TV interview he completely outclassed his inquisitor....no wonder he was spotted by the Far Eastern Economics Review editor Derek Davies and appointed Asst Economics editor at that tender age. Pity though that he was not that brilliant as a bizman...Wah Chang Engineering...

What talking he about listening to the people and uniting all citizens as one nation...the glaring exclusion of non PAP MPs in the Government Parliamentary Committees demonstrates glaringly that he does not care for the views of the 40% that voted for a non PAP MP! Is he daft or what?

Cambridge Rd Food Centre has two stalls..try them.

Iswaran's wife is an Australian...he met her while studying in Australia on a Colombo Plan scholarship.