Huntsman is building another polyetheramines plant, this time on Singapore's Jurong Island.
It may sound like a crazy idea, but Singapore, a tiny island country whose population would have no place to go in the event of a wide-scale evacuation, is giving buried nukes a closer look.
The feeling is perhaps mutual for Ho Ching--her latest investment also underline's Temasek's view to increase its holdings outside the perimeter of the 263-square-mile island that is Singapore.
At the 121-acre construction site on Sentosa--the resort island linked to the Singapore mainland by a short causeway--more than 1, 000 workers toil away on around-the-clock shifts.
Having lived in and out of Singapore for 17 years, Comer now resides in an oceanfront condominium in Sentosa Cove, a gated enclave of ultra-wealthy residents on an island 20 minutes from Singapore's city-center.
Just this week, Yale University said it would open a liberal arts college in Singapore, at the expense of the island-state.
But Lim, head of research in Singapore for Salomon Smith Barney, believes the island republic's recent performance is well supported.
This year's double winners were the Singapore Tourism Board for its latest video and its website at www.newasia-singapore.com and Fiji's Turtle Island (for its eco-friendly practices and for preserving local culture).
DBS, once the Development Bank of Singapore and still the banking face of the island state and its Temasek investment fund, is seen pushing outward from its Southeast Asian base toward a broader pan-Asian presence.
The first one out of the gates looks to be Singapore Press Holdings, the monopoly newspaper publisher in the island republic.
For a pleasing dose of colonial-era luxury and space-age design, check into the 112-room Capella Singapore, located just south of the CBD on Sentosa Island.
One example often brought up is Links Island, a maritime company whose stock the Singapore Exchange said had been "cornered" (reducing the free float below the required 10% minimum) during a period when the value of the stock rose fourfold in four months after its IPO in April 2000.
Calls to make Singapore more conducive to bigger families had been echoing through the island since Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong brought the topic up yet again in his National Day Rally message in late August.
Haks, one of the brains behind the Insight travel guides, lived in Singapore for 16 years until 1984, and made frequent visits to the island.
Singapore is the most "wired" with claims that every house on the island is connected to the Internet via high-speed broadband cable.
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As well as China, the Eden Project is also in talks with authorities in Singapore for an Eden-backed interactive experience to protect the environment of the island.
Demonstrations were held in front of the Singapore Embassy in Bangkok, and some protesters reportedly were seen burning photos of the island nation's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong.
Some 10 million visitors fly in and out of the country every year from all over the world (though one popular destination, the vacation island of Phuket, is about an hour's flight from either Singapore or Bangkok).
It was the standing of one of Singapore's most seasoned corporate players, Mr. Ong, who controls about 20% of the Vickers Ballas shares, and one of the island-republic's most powerful woman, Madam Ho, whose Singapore Technologies owns 40% of the firm.
He said the Singapore project would be like an interactive computer experience in which people could make decisions about the island's ecology and habitat.
For example, plans to develop Batam, an island designated as a special industrial zone, as a container terminal to rival nearby Singapore seem a waste of money.
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