Singapore bank offers $84 million compensation to Hong Kong buyers of Lehman-linked products
Singaporean bank DBS Group Holdings on Wednesday offered US$84 million in compensation to Hong Kong clients who bought investment products linked to Lehman Brothers, the U.S. investment bank whose collapse two years ago helped trigger the global financial crisis. The settlement covers 2,160 DBS clients in the southern Chinese...
Review: Once a Jolly Hangman – Singapore Justice in the Dock
Over the past few decades, investigative journalism has come to mean the kind of brave reporting that exposes injustice, wrongdoing and, above all, the abuse of power. Alan Shadrake’s hard-hitting new book cuts through the façade of official silence to reveal disturbing truths about Singapore’s use of the death penalty....
Philippinos eying the 100,000 job openings promised by PM Lee
On 15th July 2010, the Temasek Review reported that despite rising disgruntlement among Singaporeans at the relentless influx of foreigners, PM Lee has promised to bring in more foreigners to meet the “demands” of the “booming” economy. https://www.tremeritus.net/2010/07/15/pm-lee-wants-to-bring-100000-foreign-workers-into-singapore/ According...
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