Commentary
The Australian, 3 Aug 2009
OPTUS won't give me a home phone. Still, credit where credit is due: it has given me some unique insights into how companies' corporate culture reflects the culture of their homelands.
Optus is owned by Temasek Holdings, the Singapore government's investment arm. And Singapore is the world's best known benevolent dictatorship. The People's Action Party, which has ruled the place for the past four decades, exercises its will in bizarre and pettifogging ways. And the most bizarre and pettifogging of these is the famous ban on chewing gum.
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