Darkspore on November 14th, 2006

I quote from Today Online – ‘the Government will have to significantly increase its healthcare and social assistance spending over the next few years. This could be financed by raising the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from the current 5 per cent to 7 per cent. In 2004-05 alone, GST yielded $3.5 billion under the [...]

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Darkspore on November 13th, 2006

Just a gentle reminder of the frivolous use of the nation’s money.
Temasek’s letter to editor (Source: The Nation)
Published on Oct 17, 2006
Dear Editor

There has been a lot of speculation in the media on Temasek’s investment in Shin Corp. We would like to clarify our investment philosophy.
As an investment house anchored in Asia, we [...]

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Darkspore on November 3rd, 2006

Fabian dropped me an IM one day and brought my attention to “The Rainbow Connection” by Sarah McLachlan, which I promptly listened to after loading it from iTunes. He smugly said,
“I seem to have a penchant for finding gems like these all the time.”,
to which I have to agree. You will be very pleasantly surprised [...]

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