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Looks like from TV drama. Top police officials frame chief in murder case and his deputies in corruption cases to disband the anti-corruption unit KPK. May be more.. corrupt cronies from police and parliament wanted to destroy them to disupt investigations on themselves. Police set...

Among Developed econonomies, that is.. The U.N. Development Program recently came out with a report looking, among other things, at income inequality worldwide. The UNDP ranked countries and regions based on a number of factors, including their Gini coefficient, named for Italian...

Malaysia tourism commercials claimed wayang kulit is Malaysian, balinese dance is Malaysian, wayang kulit is Malaysian, Rafflesia flower is Malaysian, Rasa Sayang is Malaysian, batik is Malaysian, Angklung is Malaysina.. problem is.. they're Indonesian. Malaysia Boleh! Truly Asia indeed :D...

Thot of rolling off all the Hollywood airplane bullshit we've seen over the years :D My No. 1 Hollywood bullshit: Ejection seat from airliner (Bruce Willis in Die Hard) There are many more.. just need to get the movie names to those.. Anyone else?

Saw the thread on dual passports. Thot I'll start one for dual marriage certs :D What's the law against polygamy? I know the law prohibits it. But what if: You register for one wife in S'pore. You register for another in another country. That country makes a check with S'pore embassy...

.. this time "legally" thru donation from One Eye Dragon?:confused: Note he was taken off the waiting list and put back on in Oct. Cut queue right to the front of 520 others?? I find the report has lots of questionable facts :mad: Gunman's kidney for Tang? By Jessica Jaganathan & Teh...

INdirectly, definitely, thru UBS judging by the report (bold)... directly?? Banks tally Madoff damage Madoff, a 70-year-old Wall Street veteran, is alleged to have confessed to having lost 50 billion dollars (S$74.45 billion) of investors' money in a giant pyramid scheme that...

Thought I'll start a thread on Indo celebs... not much around here :D Starting off with Dian Sastro.

Tend to agree.. when toy manufacturers like Mattel etc. set up or subcontract in China, don't they follow the quality standards practised back home? What are ISO 900x and the other QMSes for?? Why blame the factory for producing what you specified.. or didn't? :rolleyes: 'Not our fault'...

Streamlining? That is retrenching, pay freezes and cuts, recruitment freezes? Mine has. Dozens were retrenched and many are facing imminent retrenchments. The rest are facing pay cuts. With DBS starting the trend, I see many companies following suit, making use of the opportunity to let...

Prudential has on its website, though specifically mentioning that their exposure is insignificant to the ML, Lehman and AIG crisis. Can't say it's convincing enough. Would be if they say exposure to the global credit crisis. But what to do? So far at least safe for now. I'm vested so hope...

With Lehman Bros, Meryll Lynch saga, I'm reminded of the preferential shares issue by OCBC and UOB. Were they raising capital for their imminent financial crises? If so, how big is the potential hole? What about DBS? With so many angmoh at the helm then and now, and their western...

IF Olympics have, why not Paralympics? She's (and her parents) definitely gone through more challenges to achieve this. Anyway, hearty congrats to her :)SINGAPORE: When she was five, Laurentia Tan was described as a "vegetable". Born with cerebral palsy, she could not speak, hear, walk or...

It only applies to S'poreans spending in S'pore, I suppose. FTs earn their money here and spend back home. Bros here feel the pinch? :( Singapore executives' spending power down Their ranking slips to No. 22 in a global survey on disposable income By Francis Chan COMPANIES in...

Will it change things in Japan and around the world? Pls anal-yse ;) Aso ready to be PM Favoured to win LDP presidency, he declares himself eligible for Japan's top job By Kwan Weng Kin, Japan Correspondent LDP secretary-general Taro Aso has support from within the party as well...

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I used to. But as I get older and the feeling keeps growing that S'pore (or at least the govt) does not treat me any more special than the FTs they import, this feeling has dimished over the years. Now I feel it's just a house. I hold the pink card of tenancy, and pay my rent (NS & taxes)...

today's article in ST about married men who run away to overseas with other woman leaving their wives and kids behind. I feel depressed when children are made to suffer because of such irresponsible fathers. :mad: I came across one who took all the family's savings to run off with woman...