Political heat rising on ASX takeover by SGX, human rights issue raised

Brisbane Times, 26 Oct 2010
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has launched a scathing attack on the human rights record of the Singapore government as he flagged his party's opposition to a merger of the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and the Singapore Exchange.
Earlier the coalition demanded the government show why the merger was in the national interest.
Senator Brown said the merger proposal was a subjugation of the ASX by a company 25 per cent owned by the Singapore government. Full story

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