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Fake or real? You decide…

Now that India has the ignominy of having a super-bacteria gene named after them — New Delhi, to be exact — one wonders if that spells the demise of the healthcare sector and its “medical tourism” industry.

It wasn’t too long ago that Fortis was looking to expand beyond their shores in their competition with Khazanah for the Parkway pie. Now, they might just need to concentrate a wee bit more on their home turf.

If you want to find out more about this new Indian bacteria gene that can potentially have fatal and devastating effects, there is this fairly new writeup on Wikipedia.

For some reason or other, the research analysts from CIMB were exceedingly bearish compared to the analysts from the other banks and brokers. Wonder if they know something that the rest don’t? Just check out the number of Neutral or Underperform calls that they made last week.

Well, that’s a FLA (Four-Letter-Acronym) that came in vogue some time last year to represent “Too Big To Fail”. It was used particularly in the context of the TARP (another FLA: “Troubled Assets Relief Programme) coming into play for AIG because it was deemed its failure will have a cascading effect on the rest of the American — and possibly world — economy.

Now we have TBTF standing for “Too Big To Fall” as well. This article from Bloomberg is an interesting read on how the punishments can be disproportionate to the magnitude of the wrongdoing.

Directors in listed companies should be held to higher standards as they are responsible not only for the welfare of their staff and the company, but they are supposed to consider the interests of investors. Let’s hope that SGX-listed companies clean up their acts as there have been more than a few dodgy directors exposed in the media lately…

The original version of Halo 2600 is available for play online! This was released during the recent Classic Gaming Expo. Enjoy!

http://www.codemystics.com/halo2600/

Been a gamer for a while but have always dumped your old consoles for the latest technology? Beware, your old consoles are NOT HAPPY…

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