CHINA - The People’s Investment Company – the early reports

“If Goldman can own a part of a Chinese bank, why can’t China also own a bit of Goldman?”

SINGAPORE - Microsoft Vista almost “SI” in Singapore

“4 in Hokkien slang (SI), one of Singapore’s dialects, sounds like death….That would have given the Feng Shui experts some business to advise Microsoft Singapore on how to ward off that bad luck of encountering the number 4 during the launch. “

SINGAPORE - A Small Kind of Joy

“That day I found out that CY was a Christian. And whenever he locked himself in his office, it meant that he had won a case. Someone had been sentenced to die. And so CY would pray.”

“The “No Pork” podcast URL was forwarded to me some days back. At the time, I refrained from blogging on the matter because I did not want to confer publicity upon such material Events have since overtaken this resolution. Xiaxue posted the podcast on her blog. Her mention of it, in turn, was cited in a Forum letter to the Straits Times. “

CHINA - The heart of an ‘evil’ matter

“Another report came and went this week about the Chinese government’s practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners for transplant with hardly a speck of take-up in the international press.”