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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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Tags: AIG, economy crisis, global financial crisis, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, subprime mortgage crisis

Sense of Home

The newest show on Mediacorp Channel 5 aims to provide insights into the thoughts of Singaporeans living overseas and the reasons why they choose to do so.
Filmed entirely outside Singapore, the new anthology will be screened on Channel 5 starting this Sunday. Locations for filming include Budapest, London, Christchurch etc. A peek into the lives and feelings of Singaporeans living in these countries will be captured in this new anthology.

Hold on…Is there an Agenda? Is this Propoganda? How unbiased will the show be?
Afterall, mediacorp which is a Singapore based company will be under pressure from the relavent government authorities not to publish/film a program which encourages people to migrate overseas. It is called the ‘Brain Drain’. The main agenda of the show would be to pull on Singaporeans’ heartstrings, More »

Tags: channel 5, Fiona Xie, hady mirza, mediacorp, sense of home, singapore

Bangkok Dangerous, really

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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Tags: bangkok dangerous, Politics, samak, thailand, thaksin

Now, Discover Your Strengths!

Have you ever wondered what are your strengths?

Or have you always been obsessed over your weaknesses?

“Now, Discover Your Strengths”, authored by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, advises on ‘living a strong life’. Leading a ’strong life’ is about being able to do what you are most apt in and where your greatest strengths are put into best use.

Are you leading a ’strong life’ yet?

Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best everyday?

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Tags: now discover your strengths, self improvement

Beijing Olympics Comes to a Close

After almost 2 weeks of sporting excitement and record breaking moments, the 2008 Olympic Games has come to a close.

Quite an impressive Games I must say.

At the time of publication, China leads with a total of 51 Gold medals, obviously surpassing United States’ tally of 36, although in terms of total medal count, US is the first on the scoreboard with 110.

It seems like China’s initiative to boost their Olympics ranking has been fruitful given the sweeping performance of the Chinese athletics. Their total gold medal count has widely surpassed expectations.

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Tags: 2008 olympics, beijing olympics, china, olympic games

UiTM, Malaysia in Turmoil

Malaysia in Turmoil.

Last Sunday, Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim proposed to allow Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) to be opened to non-Bumiputeras. He proposed that 10% of new student intakes be reserved for foreign students and non-bumis. UiTM has traditionally been set up as a public funded university for ONLY Bumiputeras.

Abdul Khalid has subsequently been barraged by various powerful groups including Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, UiTM’s vice-chancellor Professor Datuk Seri Ibrahim Abu Shah, Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi & more than 5000 UiTM students.

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Tags: abdul khalid, abdullah badawi, abu shah, Bumiputera, Bumis, luqmann, Malaysia, Menteri Besar, orang asli, racial bias, turmoil, UiTM, zahid hamidi

Case Study: Zimbabwe’s Crisis

Alot of us have read about the on-going hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.

But how much do we actually know about it’s origin.? How this scary hyper inflation was born?

Recently, the Zimbabwe’s government has dropped some zeros from the currency, making it much more manageable. However this isn’t going to solve the problem.

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Tags: economics, economy, economy crisis, inflation, Zimbabwe