Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 25 Mar (Wed) – Lee Kuan Yew’s Power of Forgiveness

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Remembering Lee Kuan Yew

• Lee Kuan Yew’s Power of Forgiveness; When it came to the sins of the past, the prime minister put the future of Singapore first: WSJ
• Mr Lee Kuan Yew and his red box: TODAY
• LKY: A leader who’s ruthless in demanding honesty: AsiaOne
• All roads lead to Singapore: Asians study Lee Kuan Yew’s mantra: Reuters

Life

• Six Books Bill Gates Recommended For TED 2015: VW
• A Conversation With the Authors of ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’: NYT
• 6 Rules for Building and Scaling Company Culture: HBR
• Why Family Firms in East Asia Struggle with Succession: HBR
• Collaboration, from the Wright Brothers to Robots: HBR
• 9 habits of exceptional leaders, according to the classic book ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’: BI
• All dictators live ‘in fear,’ former Libyan PM says; “When you oppress people, when you do wrong to others, you cannot live happily”: JA

Investing Process

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
• Hanergy: The 10-minute trade and unusual trading patterns over the past two years: FT

Greater China

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
• Hanergy: The 10-minute trade and unusual trading patterns over the past two years: FT
• Hong Kong has 56,000 people with liquid assets of more than HK$10 million – and most are worried about their children’s education, a survey has found.: Standard
• Mobile financial transactions on the rise in China: WCT
• The Unbearable Exuberance of China’s Markets: JG

ASEAN

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor

Macro

• Property Investors’ Latest Horror: Zombie REITs: WSJ
• The-worlds-next-credit-crunch-could-make-2008-look-like-a-hiccup.html The world’s next credit crunch could make 2008 look like a hiccup: Telegraph

Energy & Commodities

• Here’s How $20 Oil Could Become a Reality If Storage Runs Out; The looming storage crisis explained: bloomberg
• ‘We are just good plumbers’: The man who sold Beaumont Energy for half a billion despite oilpatch gloom: FP
• Canada crude falls below US$30 for first time in six years as BMO warns oilsands must cut costs; ‘At $30 crude, something has to give’: Why there’s a reality check coming for Canadian oil stocks: FP1, FP2

TMT

• Netflix, Amazon and Hulu No Longer Find Themselves Upstarts in Online Streaming: NYT
• Datto and the million-dollar data backup business; Austin McChord makes big money by selling peace of mind to small businesses hoping to avoid the catastrophe of data loss: Forbes
• Connected cars will be huge in Asia:BI

Healthcare

• Biotech’s Rally Fuels Bubble Fears; As Valuations Skyrocket and Nasdaq Nears Record, Anxiety Builds: WSJ
• From Pills That Snitch to Xbox Sensors, Drugmaker Goes High Tech: Bloomberg
• Biotech’s Rally Fuels Bubble Fears; As Valuations Skyrocket and Nasdaq Nears Record, Anxiety Builds: WSJ

Consumer & Others

• How Burger King beat Wendy’s: BI