On 4 March 2009, Reuters published an interview with MM Lee, excerpts of which was reproduced by Straits Times on the same day:
Reuters
Straits Times
Straits Times left out some critical information as highlighted in the boxes:
Straits Times mentioned that the portfolio of Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has fallen about 25 per cent from its peak due to the financial crisis, but it deliberately left out Reuters’ crucial statement that “the value of the fund was around $300 billion a year ago“.
If the figures provided by Reuters were accurate, this means that GIC is staring at a potential loss of some $75 billion dollars and taken together with Temasek’s loss of $58 billion dollars, we would have lost $133 billion dollars of our reserves in less than a year. These were 2008’s figures before the financial meltdown. I dare not imagine how much we have lost by now.
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Reuters
Straits Times
Straits Times left out some critical information as highlighted in the boxes:
Straits Times mentioned that the portfolio of Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has fallen about 25 per cent from its peak due to the financial crisis, but it deliberately left out Reuters’ crucial statement that “the value of the fund was around $300 billion a year ago“.
If the figures provided by Reuters were accurate, this means that GIC is staring at a potential loss of some $75 billion dollars and taken together with Temasek’s loss of $58 billion dollars, we would have lost $133 billion dollars of our reserves in less than a year. These were 2008’s figures before the financial meltdown. I dare not imagine how much we have lost by now.
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http://wayangparty.com/?p=5923