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24 September 2009

Singapore – where whatever we do, is never good enough

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This entry is my response to Paul Graham’s old article, which talked about cities, the ambitions of its people and the messages that they send out.  In writing this, I was inspired by my personal experiences and a brief discussion at a Skype group chat that I hang out at.  I’d love to hear what [...]

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22 August 2009

NRF awards S$4m to 16 Proof-of-Concept projects

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Hot off the press – National Research Foundation (NRF) announces that it has awarded a total of S$4 million in Proof-of-Concept (POC) grants to 16 projects from the institutes of higher learning.

Total of 91 proposals received from local universities, polytechnics and UniSIM; 27 (29.6% of submitted proposals) were shortlisted for further review, out of which [...]

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5 August 2009

Putting the Seagate Singapore plant closure into perspective

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Yesterday, hard disk maker Seagate announced that it would be laying off 2,000 workers from Singapore (4% of their global workforce) out of its 8,000-strong Singapore operation, and relocate its Ang Mo Kio hard disk drive plant out of Singapore by the end of 2010.  Not every article provided the same amount of detail, so [...]

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22 July 2009

No longer a Goodyear for Temasek

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Shocking news.  Charles “Chip” W. Goodyear and Temasek Holdings have mutually agreed to part ways after 3-odd months as CEO-Designate, citing that “there were differences regarding certain strategic issues that could not be resolved.”  Ho Ching had stepped down days before Temasek announced a $39 billion loss in its portfolio.  Almost four months on, its [...]

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22 May 2009

“Consumer Web in Focus” with Joi Ito

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I bring good tidings. Experienced entrepreneur-turned-angel-investor and CEO of Creative Commons, Joi Ito will be stopping over in Singapore for a day, and upon my request, has graciously agreed to spend the morning of 15 June to share his insights on Consumer Web with us.  In addition, 15 6 lucky consumer web start-ups will get [...]

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18 April 2009

Ji Gong (济公) Temple

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I finally succumbed to my mum’s perennial nagging and accompanied her on a trip to the Ji Gong (济公) Temple in Singapore earlier today. Cursory inquiries with relatives had thrown up the address of 2 Beatty Lane.  I assumed all was well, until a quick Google search on my iPhone told me that [...]

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23 February 2009

Singapore Tripartism Forum 2009

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I had the rare opportunity to get up close to our Prime Minister when I attended the the recent Singapore Tripartism Forum 2009, held at One Marina Boulevard.  Other than being the Stanford Daily photo editor on duty when John Edwards visited Stanford in 2006, this was the nearest I ever got to any big [...]

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6 August 2008

‘Deep’ Engineering: an Endangered species in Singapore?

I just got off a call with a certain Google executive looking at merger-and-acquisition opportunities in Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. Google tends to prefer deals that feed into search, traffic and user generation of content. After hearing about Google’s acquisition strategy, I found myself having to come up with something smart to say after [...]

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3 August 2008

Singapore’s Strategy for Long-term Survival

Recently, a very wise man gave me an invaluable perspective on Singapore’s long-term survival strategy. I’ve long acknowledged the ingenuity and foresight of the Singapore Government, but the government never ceases to amaze and leave me in awe time and time again.
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c.1275, from O.Fr. hostage “person given as security or hostage,” either from hoste “guest” [...]

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31 July 2008

Six winners for NRF Early Stage Venture Fund

Earlier this year, on 28 March 2008, the Prime Minister of Singapore announced a S$350 million program to support a slew of initiatives and schemes under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), driven by the National Research Foundation (NRF). Out of that bunch of ideas, one of them was to seed up to [...]

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