Weekly Roundup: Week 39

High Notes and Minibombs
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Lehman Minibond Saga : HKMA threatens to suspend banks’ license…MAS..
- TOC: Protecting the small investors
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: In HK, Govt seeks to help Lehman Minibond holders
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: DBS “High Note 5″ Investors feel cheated
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: LATEST on DBS High Notes: And things start to move
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: BREAKING NEWS : HK initiates mis-selling probe!
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Latest Twist – MAS to banks : Appoint your own investigators!
- Mr Wang Says So: Perils for the Retail Investor
- EastStop: Retail Investors – More handholding needed?
- EastStop: Were MiniBonds/DBS Notes ‘Safe’ ?
- Ian On The Red Dot: Structured Financial Products + A Banker Friend + What Army Taught Me
- Tan Kin Lian’s Blog: Update (1) to investors of credit linked securities
- My Singapore News: caveat emptor – minibonds
GIC, Temasek State Funds Investments
- Chemical Generation Singapore: GIC’s First Ever Report
- Feed Me To The Fish :GIC? Who’s Money is it anyway?
- Sgpolitics: GIC’s hasty investments in Citigroup and UBS may yield mediocre returns for a considerable period
AIA in Trouble
- My sketchbook: “Fat paycheck equals competency” theory
- Adventures and random brain waves: Socialism, capitalism and greed
Singapore F1 Grand Prix
- Deadpoet’s Cave: Peter Chan takes a walk around the Singapore F1 circuit
- quachee’s blog: F1 Singapore
- Yawning Bread: River light-up may not wear well
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Singapore F1 Grand Prix – culture revived or cash on wheels?
- Singapore Sojourn: Raining On The Parade
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: F1…..or F9?
- EDMW: hokays F1 freeloaders
Melamine in my Milk
- My Very Own Glob:
- Food Fads: Suspension Of All Milk And Milk Products From China [Thanks ecko as ]
- Singapore Complain Hub: Current Singapore List of Banned Milk products from China
- Everythings about Singapore: Even Nestle products may have Contaminated Milk
- The fire in my life: The Blame Game on AVA? [Thanks ecko as ]
- the boy who knew too much: 53,000 babies and Chinese values [Recommended]
- The Void Deck: What Others Are Saying: Ah Tiong Food Got Tok! Pui!
- Sgpolitics.net: Melamine Contamination Problem – Beyond Milk
- The Itch To Write: Melanine Tainted Products in Singapore [Editor's note: Not trying to create mass panic but better safe than sorry ]
- Food Fads: Five more products detected with melamine [Thanks ecko as ]
Hong Lim Park
- Sgpolitics: Police ban on Tamil language discussion at Speaker’s Corner proves the liberalization is mere tokenism
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: NParks in-charge of Speaker’s Corner; or are the Police still in the act??
- Singapore Indian Voice: Two other reports on the Tamil language issue
We don’t need no regulation
- My Singapore News: Uniqueness of space in Cyberspace
- To Fix a Mocking Peasant: Disbelieving [Recommended]
Strangers in a Strange Land
- TOC: Set higher standards for foreign sports talent
Foreign Workers Not Welcomed in Serangoon Gardens
- Organic-Ally: NIMBYs in Singapore
- TheSuffocate: Why cant we live with foreigners?
Fixating the Opposition
- TOC: The assault on reason [Recommended]
Lee vs Chee, Nair, FEER, WSJ et al.
- Singapore Indian Voice: Gopalan Nair’s Message Before Imprisonment
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: The strongest men in Singapore politics just got stronger: LEEders win defamation case against FEER in S’pore court
- Singapore Indian Voice: Critics of Singapore’s judiciary face reprisal
- Readings From A Political Duo-ble: Comparing the cases of Durai and Goplan Nair
- Lawnet: Lee Hsien Loong v Review Publishing Co Ltd and Another and Another Suit [LOL, no kidding ]
Baby Bonuses for a Dying Breed
- THINK HAPPINESS: Changed Singapore Dream Means More Flee City of Possibilities [Recommended]
- TOC: The stork is still not quite convinced
- My Singapore News: Changed Singapore Dream: Fleeing The City of Possibilities
ERPains, Trains & Automobiles
- EastCoastLife: PM Lee Hsien Loong officially opened KPE
Have you ever wondered why we must serve
- Military Life: All Quiet on the Western Front
Housing
- Singapore Life and Times: Warranteed
Burmese Protests
- Yawning Bread: Burmese patriots “undesirable”, says Singapore government
Daily Discourse
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Anecdotal Evidence of a very sharp slowdown..
- Sgpolitics: An “active citizenry” without the “fist fights”
- catherinelim.sg: The Political Opening Up—Is it for Real? [Recommended]
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Funding F1 is more important than school upgrading: Have big business & glam gone to S’pore govt’s head?
- Carpe Diem: Are we desensitising our readers? [Recommended]
- The Foreigner in Formosa: The Road To Singapore Is Paved With Good Intentions
- Simply Jean: Coming soon: F1 taxi surcharge (no, I am not kidding)
- Singapore Complain Hub: ‘Why is MOE releasing sensitive information like NRIC numbers to third-party vendors?’
- Sgpolitics.net: Who is the real PAP mole: unraveling the conspiracy theories in Singapore’s blogosphere
- Yawning Bread: Is engaging the mainstream media pointless? Part 1
- XTRALICIOUS: First Foray into ST – hesitation and anticipation
- Endoh’s Dungeon: Maternity Perks For Maids – the grey line between personal & professional lives
- BothSidesOfTheJohorStraits: Rich/poor divide in S’pore: Wealthy politicians helping to raise peanuts!!!
- The Extra Scoop: What the Olympics taught us about education
Life, the universe and everything
- Mr Wise Guy Blog: The Soldier’s Hurdles During the Fasting Month
- International Coastal Cleanup Singapore: Chek Jawa checkout
- inter alia: rethinking apologetics
- Geeks Not Freaks: Telco Senior Exec Exposed
- harmless? bananas!: Beyond Blogs
- Mindblogging Stuff: Now that’s what I call a thumb drive
- The Bosonic State: Building a Space Elevator
- Cooler Insights: Turning Crises into Opportunities
Infoblogoramus
- First Aid Corps: Free workshops on CPR
- TOC: Group of Singaporeans organize meeting to discuss collective action on Lehman Minibonds
- A L V I N O L O G Y: Bee Cheng Hiang (美珍香) Online Photo Contest
- The eOK .network: Think of the ripples in your social media marketing
- The fire in my life: Seafood Salah [Thanks ecko as ]
At the Movies
- Extreme Prejudice: Movie: Wall.E




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