Temasek throws lavish party in New York, announces plan to dabble in bitcoin

Coindesk, 27 Jun 2014
Temasek Holdings has a $172bn portfolio and had a net income of $12.1bn in 2013. According to the news report, the firm launched its first office in New York City yesterday, throwing a lavish party and promising that it will “seize opportunities in the entire American continent”.
The most surprising part of the launch came in Chairman Lim Boon Heng’s speech, in which he

Snapshot: Medishield Life premiums can be changed anytime by the government depending on medical inflation and claims experience

Comment: From past experience, promises made before the General Election have no bearing on what comes after the poll.

Straits Times, 27 Jun 2014

OPINION: Medishield Life Bites Hard

Singapore Notes, 27 Jun 2014
Last year, Medishield premiums were quietly increased without much fanfare. Han Fook Kwang himself woke up to discover that his MediShield premium had jumped to $1,589, double what was deducted ($800) from his Medisave account previously. Before you could even contemplate bailing out of the scam, they introduced the compulsory Medishield Life to skim you off for

VIDEO: Two foreign women fighting outside MRT station

Facebook, 24 Jun 2014

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A group of troublemakers from Indonesia create chaos and panic on SQ flight.

Stomp.com.sg, 26 Jun 2014
“Chaos was created by this group of Indonesian passengers on flight SQ863 from Hong Kong to Singapore on the afternoon of Jun 24.
“I was seated near the back of the plane.
“There was hot air blowing up from vents under the seats of the plane, making the air warm like a sauna. The air stewardess had explained that this would stop once the plane was in the air, and later

Singapore’s wussy NSF assaulted by foreign road bully in Sentosa

Comment: If our soldiers cannot even protect themselves from being bullied and assaulted by foreigners in Singapore, how can they protect the country from foreign invasion?

All Singapore Stuff, 26 Jun 2014
This happened at my residence in Sentosa this evening 25 June 2014. My son was driving back from his army camp and just after entering Sentosa, a car cut abruptly into my son’s lane so my son

OPINION: Mr Lim Swee Say’s statements on CPF do not make any sense

Sgpolitics.net, 24 Jun 2014
Firstly, Mr Lim said that people should use less of their CPF money when they are young, and they should also try to defer drawing down their CPF when they reach the age of 55. These statements were made in BOTH the original press interview as well as the clarification that he later sent to the media (see here).
However, Mr Lim also asserts that the CPF is for housing

SDCF officers managed to prevent elderly man from jumping off 17th storey high block in Clementi

Stomp.com.sg, 23 Jun 2014

Stomper Belle was about to get ready for work last Wednesday when she noticed an elderly man standing on a ledge between levels 16 and 17 at a block at Casa Clementi.
Belle describes how a police officer held onto the elderly man until the SCDF arrived and pulled him to safety. Full story

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