a new face will be at temasek’s head (still under the Lee Family), new schemes to “reward” us will be given.

the only thing our country lacks now, is a leader with enough charisma and cunning to forge the opposition into a force to be reckoned with, i.e Anwar Ibrahim of malaysia and yukio hatoyama of japan (the latter to a certain extent). our prominent opposition MPs are LTK and CST, and ms Sylvia Lim as an NCMP, who is basically powerless to do anything.

i have faith in my fellow singaporeans my age, who are enlightened and do not just blindly lead their lives as the PAP would have us doing. we form the future of our country, and the opposition must of course have realised this, well, at least i hope so.

@ Iskandar: pay no attention to people like budamax. you speak the truth and do so lucidly.

She did not give a clue how long is ‘long term’? She is worse than the TV add guy who, at least, promised to “give it all back“.

“You know me. My luck is changing. I am going to strike the big one. Imagine what we can do. One more try. I promise I will give it all back” – this is the long term objective of a gambler.

The whole saga again proves that our 1st-world, world-class, million-dollar, PAP government has NO ACCOUNTABILITY AT ALL. NOT AT ALL.

Actually, we cannot blame Temasek for bad timing of offloading its share of BOA because it may due to Temasek offloading all stakes that the share price goes up as the world know of the Temasek Jinx. So anyone want to be smart investor might want to find out which is the next companies Temasek is going to offload their share.

Wow… uniquely Temasek.

Dear Mr. Iskandar,

I am much mesmerised by your non-emotional & rational story, albeit from the kind of difficult-to-explain hynotic effect. After all this from you, I still do not see any tinge of effect on them (i mean the incumbents).

… or maybe a team of (apolitical) professionals from diverse backgrounds each dealing with a specific discipline could make a more sound judgement? afterall its everyone’s money.

how much hc pay u to write this piece of xxxx

You are very wrong! There are people who will do worse. Those who still support such bad invesments and give reason that no one could have done better. Gosh! No one is Singapore is smarter than Ho Ching. A nice big cake to swallow!

not sure if elites stand up & take actions on this?

aiyoyo

I am sure it will.

We all can accept that mistakes can be made. But it is not acceptable if people make the mistake (e.g. like failing an exam and pretending to score As) and want to wish away the responsiblity by giving poor ungrounded explanations in the Straits Times.

I believe Singaporeans just merely want to know the truth, and know how the bad mistakes are made and what we are doing to prevent recurrent of such mistake. We always pride that we have system that works. In this case, it fails as the decision should have been vetoed.

Secondly those that make mistake should be held responsible. This is about leadership. Make a poor judgement & you have to pay for it – it is NOT your money. Afterall, you have been handsomely paid for the job. Hiding in the shadow further teaches our future generation that it is ok to make mistake after you are high up in the corporate ladder. You will be protected.

I will not want such people to lead the country or corporations as they breed the thinking that leadership is about protecting yourself.

Latest versions: PAP = Pathetic And Pathetic
PAP = Pissed And Pissed

PAP say: Pay peanuts, and you will get Corrupt Monkeys!
S’poreans say: Pay big bananas, but still get Incompetent Chimpanzees!!!

Mr Tharman, are you now being made answerable for Ho Ching’s mess because of your superior’s request?

By the way, have we come to terms with the fact that just 1% of the investments is worth more than $100 million already?

What irked me was that they remained nonchalant and no one dared tocome out and apologised or at least talk about such losses.

For that, Ho Ching got her gold medal May Day award and got to leave the company in good stead handing over to someone to take the rap. This is unacceptable even though she is the PM’s wife.

Now she is determining the next investment phase for Temasek before she departed from a company that she nearly bankrupted.

The way we are governed, I foresee that we will face massive problems in future. There is a real lack of transparency here and officers got away from responsibilities. No one seemed responsible here and we always make scapegoats of junior officers.