OPINION: Avoiding the grip of Singapore Inc - Eric Ellis

Brisbane Times, 7 Apr 2011
After the many years of the Lee regime, Singaporeans know the elite never make mistakes. But this play by Singapore Inc to walk off with a crucial pillar of Australia's financial architecture is precisely that, a hubristic reach too far with the government-linked ownership structure that Magnus Bocker and his SGX brought to the table, no matter how they tried spinning it.
Australia isn't the first country to discover and rule that an investment by Singapore Inc entities such as Temasek Holdings carries heavy state baggage - a de facto nationalisation by a foreign government, as it was once described in Bangkok by no less a figure as the Thai finance minister, railing against Temasek's $4 billion purchase of former the PM Thaksin Shinawatra's media empire. Full story

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