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Monthly Archives: March 2008
What Singapore fund’s Internet profile doesn’t say
Temasek Holdings is not a sovereign wealth fund, said a Temasek spokesman as soon as Singapore and Abu Dhabi reached an agreement with the US on sovereign wealth funds. Temasek isn’t mentioned in the agreement reached after talks attended by … Continue reading
Singapore biggest sovereign investor
A draft code for sovereign wealth funds may be ready for Singapore and other sovereign investors to consider when the International Monetary Fund holds its annual meeting in October, says the Wall Street Journal. Singapore is willing to adopt such … Continue reading
A handy guide against howlers
What The Straits Times needs is a language guide like Bill Walsh. Singapore’s main newspaper is prone to the kind of howlers Walsh is paid to prevent. Walsh is the Washington Post’s copy desk chief for national news. He has … Continue reading
Posted in Books Tagged bill walsh, howlers, language, lapsing into a comma, straits times Comments Off
Naipaul interviewed
The Observer has an interview with Naipaul today. It begins with a delicious anecdote. When the head of the Swedish Academy called him at his home in England in October 2001 to tell him he had won the Nobel Prize, … Continue reading
Obama’s remarkable mum
I support Hillary Clinton though every time I see or hear Barack Obama on a videoclip or television, I am deeply impressed. But if I were to vote for him, it would be for his mother, or what I read … Continue reading
The Economist’s faulty Shakespeare
Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad is compared to King Lear by The Economist magazine. Mahathir finds fault with another heir, it says. So far so good. But then it gets the plotline hopelessly mixed. The conclusion it draws is … Continue reading
Eliot Spitzer’s MySpace callgirl
MySpace, sex service with a website, smurfing — the Eliot Spitzer scandal is a high-tech morality tale. "Kristen" — the callgirl a one-hour session with on the night of February 13 in Washington’s Mayflower Hotel led to the New York … Continue reading
Singapore billion for Benettons
Singapore is taking a stake in the Benettons, but not in the fashion business. The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) is investing about 1 billion euros ($1.53 billion) in the Italian family’s holding company, Sintonia SA. The fashion business … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Tagged benetton, GIC, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Comments Off
The man who shrank the Big Apple pie
Whatever New Yorkers may think of him, Eliot Spitzer (photo New York Times) deserves the gratitude of at least one city: London. London overtook New York as the world’s money capital in 2006 just as he was ending his eight-year … Continue reading
India and the Booker
The Booker Prize (now the Man Booker) has been won by novels set in India six times in the 40-year history of the Commonwealth’s biggest literature prize. That’s excluding The Life of Pi, the 2002 winner by the … Continue reading
