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Sense of Home review part 1, 2 & 3

OK well I’ve been tied up. Here goes my part 1, 2, 3 review of Sense of Home.

Quite disappointingly, Sense of Home is just a 4 part series. Only 4 parts? Does the government really think that a 4 part serial will entice overseas Singaporeans to return to Singapore…haha. Wishful thinking man.

A quick refresher for those of you out there who missed the episodes.

Part 1: Fiona Xie & Alaric Tay star as expats living in Shanghai. Fiona is a Shanghai based marketing manager while Alaric is an english teacher. After a passionate night, Fiona finds herself pregnant and faced with the dilemma of whether she should have her Baby in Shanghai or return to Singapore. As the episode goes on, Fiona’s mum flies from Singapore to Shanghai just to check on her. The typical ‘I love you but I hate my mother-in-law’ scenes play out between Alaric and Fiona’s mum. Eventually, mother and son-in-law kiss and make up. Everyone is happy and they return to Singapore to have the baby. Fairytale ending.

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China Food Scare: Tainted Milk & More

While US mulls over its financial crisis, China is struggling to salvage their reputation as the their recent food scandal shocks the international community.

As you may have know by now, powdered milk were found laced with melamine, a type of industrial compound which is particularly harmful to infants and small children. Till now, four infants have died among some 53,000 ill.

This is not the first time that products from China were found to be unsafe. However, this time, the situation is particularly serious due to widespread contamination and health threat. This is because milk powder is a primary ingredient for many products. As such, many by-products made partly from milk-related ingredients sourced from China have been contaminated in the process. In addition, powdered milk has grown to become a necessity for non-breastfeeding mothers.

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AIG, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers

Within the past week, the world witnessed shocking drama on Wall Street.

Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, aged 150.

Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America at the age of 94.

As both events occurred on Monday, AIG seemed near to collapse under financial pressure.

No one must have envisaged one day that these banking giants would fail and one of the world’s largest insurance corporation on the verge of bankruptcy. Not until the collapse of Bear Stearns. Banks worldwide have suffered more than $500 billion of write-downs and loan losses since the global credit crisis began more than a year ago.

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Bangkok Dangerous, really

Bangkok Dangerous - The real stuff, not the movie

We saw over the past recent weeks the dramatic turn of events which unfolded in Thailand.

Anti-government protesters descended in front of the government house and blockaded several major airports, leaving foreigners stranded in the country as airports shut down their operations.

At one point, clashes broke out between them and pro-government activists. The violent clash between the opposing parties resulted in one death and prompted the Thailand Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej to impose a state of emergency.

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