TR EMERITUS

Midnight phone calls? Yesterday I heard from a friend that he had received a phone call – at midnight – from our Law Minister K Shanmugam. It was regarding an article written by Eric Ellis for The Global Mail, entitled ‘Out of the Haze, a Singapore Spring?’ The Minister said he was aware that the article was being re-posted... 

1. The media has asked me questions on my past directorships in Asia Food & Properties Ltd (“AFP”) and Golden Agri-Resources Ltd ("GAR") (controlled by the Sinar Mas Group, “SMG”). These questions have been raised because one senior Indonesian official had said last week, that SMG, (which has some companies in Singapore),... 

(26 June)   Thick smog engulfing Singapore from neighbouring Indonesia's forest fires could potentially cost the economy more than the country's 1997 haze crisis Many analysts say that the situation could be worse than the 1997 haze crisis that swept across south east Asia, when slash and burn farming in Indonesia caused smoke...