According to Robert Koester, CEO of dbS Productions, a search and rescue training company that maintains a database of 50,000 incidents, Base jumpers don't take up many resources.
Only one (Singapore Airlines) or possibly two (DBS bank) of Temasek's GLCs have established themselves as international brands, according to critics such as Chris Balding of Peking University.
But David Carbon, an economist at DBS, a Singaporean bank, suggests that America is starting to look like the pot that called the kettle black.
DBS remains optimistic about China and says that most of its free-trade-zone transactions are routed through other locations.
One of them, DBS, points out that although Singapore's debt has risen faster than, say, Hong Kong's, Singapore's GDP per person has grown much faster, too.
So far, direct-broadcast satellite (DBS) has not lived up to its early promise to destroy the cable industry.
DBS, however, has yet to withdraw its offer, and some analysts now expect a fight for Keppel as well.In this section A bundle of trouble After the slumber Pro-active Hardball from the Fund Neither buyer nor seller be Pull up the drawbridge The trouble starts at home 'Owzat?
Growth has been slower than expected, largely because DBS operators have been unable to offer local-television signals, while a fragmented market has weakened everyone.
Thailand has sold one bank to the Netherlands' ABN AMRO, and another to Singapore's DBS.
DBS still needs to work out how it can offer local-television broadcasts the main stumbling block to its ability to compete with cable.DirecTV's Eddy Hartenstein reckons that the answer is to team up with his enemy's enemy.
