After playing meek and mild, it looks like TR might be backtracking. Dr Ong is afterall expendable so it is good play to call the bluff that TH will actually take legal action.
Is Temasek Holdings going a bit too far?
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/10/17/is-temasek-holdings-going-a-bit-too-far/
Asking a legally registered domain website to change their name? What is this? Is Temasek Holdings going a bit too far? If they are really making that much money for Singapore, make an offer and buy that domain name then. Singapore International Airlines (SQ) registers their domain name as
http://www.singaporeair.com and uses it because these 3 letters “sia” have been registered by other local and foreign domains. If SIA (SQ) wants it so badly, they can just buy it totally and reserved it for themselves. Otherwise, register or patent it so that others cannot use similar names like MacDonalds or KFC. Don’t want? Then shut up, go on with your own life. In the event that they have used their domain name to misrepresent or illegally used their domain name to gainfully capitalise, then go ahead and sue them. Alternatively, apply an International Court Order to get them to change their name. Don’t want to spend money to that? Then again, just keep quiet and go on to show Singaporeans how much money you can earn for our country. BTW, don’t forget to wag your tail when you are happy. OK?
Election time is drawing near. Is this another ploy to stamp out opposition voices and clamping down of oppositions to use online media for freedom of speech? It is a socio-political website and now to be “fixed” so that patriotic Singaporeans’ voices will have one less avenue to voice out their dissent? Is this fair? What is Justice and Equality?
It is so contradictive to describe Temasek Review as “misleading and irresponsible” and at the same time proclaim that their company “has no issue with the desire to foster and facilitate serious debate and discourse and to provide news of socio-political affaris of Singapore”. There seems to be a Public Relations blunder or wanting to show Singaporeans of their true colours as a leading and responsible corporate image?
Since 2004, Temasek Holdings had been printing their annual reports with the name “Temasek Review”, why they did not object to it for the past year or so and wait till now? What is the hidden agenda? Pardon me if I have jumped to conclusions but I have my doubts.
Definition of the word REVIEW (as per wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)
* reappraisal : a new appraisal or evaluation
* an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
* follow-up: a subsequent examination of a patient for the purpose of monitoring earlier treatment
* accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data
* revue: a variety show with topical sketches and songs and dancing and comedians
* look at again; examine again; “let’s review your situation”
* a periodical that publishes critical essays on current affairs or literature or art
appraise critically;
* recapitulation: a summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
* hold a review (of troops)
* (law) a judicial reexamination of the proceedings of a court (especially by an appellate court)
* refresh one’s memory; “I reviewed the material before the test”
* practice intended to polish performance or refresh the memory
* look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember;
* inspection: a formal or official examination;
A quick check also tells there are quite a number of organisations using the name “Temasek” like a Junior College, Polytechnic, Business School, Design School, and there is even a restaurant in Sydney, Australia, with the same name.
All these organisations would also conduct REVIEWS of their own nature and publish them. Does that mean all of them need to change their names, just to give way to them?
Rosh